of Troylus and Cresseida.
444422Yet hold l o
ff: women are angels woing,
445423,,Things woone are done, ioyes
soule lies in the dooing.
446424That
shee belou'd, knows naught that knows not this,
447425,,Men price the thing vngaind more then it is,
448426That
she was neuer yet that euer knew
449427Loue got
so
sweet, as when de
sire did
sue,
450428Therefore this
maxim out of loue I teach,
451429"
Atchiuement is command;
ungaind beseech, 452430Then though my hearts content
firme loue doth beare,
453431Nothing of that
shall from mine eyes appeare.
Exit. 454432Enter Agamemnon. Nestor, Vlisses, Diomedes, 456434Aga. Princes: what griefe hath
set the
se Iaundies ore your
(cheekes? 458435The ample propo
sition that hope makes,
459436In all de
signes begun on earth below,
460437Failes in the promi
st largene
sse, checks and di
sa
sters,
461438Grow in the vaines of a
ctions highe
st reard.
462439As knots by the con
flux of meeting
sap,
463440Infe
cts the
sound Pine, and diuerts his graine,
464441Tortiue and errant from his cour
se of growth.
465442Nor Princes is it matter new to vs,
466443That we come
short of our
suppo
se
so farre,
467444That after
seauen yeares
siege, yet Troy walls
stand,
468445Sith euer a
ction that hath gone before,
469446Whereof we haue record, triall did draw,
470447Bias and thwart: not an
swering the ayme,
471448And that vnbodied
figure of the thought,
472449That gau't
surmi
sed
shape: why then you Princes,
473450Do you with cheekes aba
sht behold our workes,
474451And call them
shames which are indeed naught el
se,
475452But the protra
ctiue tryals of great
Ioue, 476453To
finde per
sistiue con
stancie in men.
477454The
finene
sse of which mettall is not found,
478455In fortunes loue: for then the bould and coward,
479456The wi
se and foole, the Arti
st and vnread,
480457The hard and
so
ft seeme all a
ffyn'd and kin,
481458But in the winde and tempe
st of her frowne,
482459Di
stin
ction with a broad and powerfull fan,
B3 Puffing