391lookes, and how he goes. O admirable youth! he ne're

392saw three and twenty. Go thy way Troylus, go thy way,

393had I a sister were a Grace, or a daughter a Goddesse, hee

394should take his choice. O admirable man! Paris? Paris

395is durt to him, and I warrant, Helen to change, would

396giue money to boot.

398Cres. Heere come more.

399Pan. Asses, fooles, dolts, chaffe and bran, chaffe and

400bran; porredge after meat. I could liue and dye i'th'eyes

401of Troylus. Ne're looke, ne're looke; the Eagles are gon,

402Crowes and Dawes, Crowes and Dawes: I had rather be

403such a man as Troylus, then Agamemnon, and all Greece.

404Cres. There is among the Greekes Achilles, a better

405man then Troylus.

406Pan. Achilles? a Dray-man, a Porter, a very Camell.

407Cres. Well, well.

408Pan. Well, well? Why haue you any discretion? haue

409you any eyes? Do you know what a man is? Is not birth,

410b auty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gen-

411tlenesse, vertue, youth, liberality, and so forth: the Spice,

412and salt that seasons a man?

413Cres. I, a minc'd man, and then to be bak'd with no Date

414in the pye, for then the mans dates out.

415Pan. You are such another woman, one knowes not

416at what ward you lye.

417Cres. Vpon my backe, to defend my belly; vpon my

418wit, to defend my wiles; vppon my secrecy, to defend

419mine honesty; my Maske, to defend my beauty, and you

420to defend all these: and at all these wardes I lye at, at a

421thousand watches.

422Pan. Say one of your watches.

423Cres. Nay Ile watch you for that, and that's one of

424the cheefest of them too: If I cannot ward what I would

425not haue hit, I can watch you for telling how I took the

426blow, vnlesse it swell past hiding, and then it's past wat-

427ching.

429Pan. You are such another.

430Boy. Sir, my Lord would instantly speake with you.

431Pan. Where?

432Boy. At your owne house.

433Pan. Good Boy tell him I come, I doubt he bee hurt.

434Fare ye well good Neece.

435Cres. Adieu Vnkle.

436Pan. Ile be with you Neece by and by.

437Cres. To bring Vnkle.

438Pan. I, a token from Troylus.

439Cres. By the same token, you are a Bawd. Exit Pand.

440Words, vowes, gifts, teares, & loues full sacrifice,

441He offers in anothers enterprise:

442But more in Troylus thousand fold I see,

443Then in the glasse of Pandar's praise may be;

444Yet hold I off. Women are Angels wooing,

445Things won are done, ioyes soule lyes in the dooing:

446That she belou'd, knowes nought, that knowes not this;

447Men prize the thing vngain'd, more then it is.

448That she was neuer yet, that euer knew

449Loue got so sweet, as when desire did sue:

450Therefore this maxime out of loue I teach;

451"Atchieuement, is command; vngain'd, beseech.

452That though my hearts Contents firme loue doth beare,

453Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appeare. Exit.

456Agam. Princes:

457What greefe hath set the Iaundies on your cheekes?

458The ample proposition that hope makes

459In all designes, begun on earth below

460Fayles in the promist largenesse: checkes and disasters

461Grow in the veines of actions highest rear'd.

462As knots by the conflux of meeting sap,

463Infect the sound Pine, and diuerts his Graine

464Tortiue and erant from his course of growth.

465Nor Princes, is it matter new to vs,

466That we come short of our suppose so farre,

467That after seuen yeares siege, yet Troy walles stand,

468Sith euery action that hath gone before,

469Whereof we haue Record, Triall did draw

470Bias and thwart, not answering the ayme:

471And that vnbodied figure of the thought

472That gaue't surmised shape. Why then (you Princes)

473Do you with cheekes abash'd, behold our workes,

474And thinke them shame, which are (indeed) nought else

475But the protractiue trials of great Ioue,

476To finde persistiue constancie in men?

477The finenesse of which Mettall is not found

478In Fortunes loue: for then, the Bold and Coward,

479The Wise and Foole, the Artist and vn-read,

480The hard and soft, seeme all affin'd, and kin.

481But in the Winde and Tempest of her frowne,

482Distinction with a lowd and powrefull fan,

483Puffing at all, winnowes the light away;

484And what hath masse, or matter by it selfe,

485Lies rich in Vertue, and vnmingled.

486Nestor. With due Obseruance of thy godly seat,

487Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply

488Thy latest words.

489In the reproofe of Chance,

490Lies the true proofe of men: The Sea being smooth,

491How many shallow bauble Boates dare saile

492Vpon her patient brest, making their way

493With those of Nobler bulke?

494But let the Ruffian Boreas once enrage

495The gentle Thetis, and anon behold

496The strong ribb'd Barke through liquid Mountaines cut,

497Bounding betweene the two moyst Elements

498Like Perseus Horse. Where's then the sawcy Boate,

499Whose weake vntimber'd sides but euen now

500Co-riual'd Greatnesse? Either to harbour fled,

501Or made a Toste for Neptune. Euen so,

502Doth valours shew, and valours worth diuide

503In stormes of Fortune.

504For, in her ray and brightnesse,

505The Heard hath more annoyance by the Brieze

506Then by the Tyger: But, when the splitting winde

507Makes flexible the knees of knotted Oakes,

508And Flies fled vnder shade, why then

509The thing of Courage,

510As rowz'd with rage, with rage doth sympathize,

511And with an accent tun'd in selfe-same key,

512Retyres to chiding Fortune.

513Vlys. Agamemnon:

514Thou great Commander, Nerue, and Bone of Greece,

515Heart of our Numbers, soule, and onely spirit,

516In whom the tempers, and the mindes of all

517Should be shut vp: Heare what Vlysses speakes,

518Besides the applause and approbation

519The which most mighty for thy place and sway,

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