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483460Pu
ffing at all, winnowss the light away,
484461And what hath ma
sse or matter by it
selfe,
485462Lyes rich in vertue and vnmingled.
486463Nestor. With due ob
seruance of the godlike
seate,
487464Great
Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply
488465Thy late
st words. In the reproofe of chance,
490466Lies the true proofe of men: the
sea being
smooth,
491467How many
shallow bauble boates dare
saile,
492468Vpon her ancient bre
st, making their way
493469With tho
se of nobler bulke
? 494470But let the ru
ffian
Boreas once enrage
495471The gentle
Thetis, and anon, behold
496472The
strong ribbd barke through liquid mountaines cut,
497473Bounding betweene the two moy
st elements,
498474Like
Perseus hor
se. Where's then the
sawcie boate,
499475Who
se weake vntymberd
sides but euen now
500476Corriuald greatne
sse? either to harbor
fled,
501477Or made a to
ste for
Neptune: euen
so
502478Doth valours
shew, and valours worth deuide
503479In
stormes of fortune; for in her ray and brightne
sse
505480The heard hath more annoyance by the Bryze
506481Then by the Tyger, but when the
splitting winde,
507482Makes
flexible the knees of knotted Okes,
508483And Flies
fled vnder
shade, why then the thing of courage,
510484As rouzd with rage, with rage doth
simpathize,
511485And with an accent tun'd in
selfe
same key,
512486Retires to chiding fortune.
514488Thou great Commander, nerues and bone of Greece,
515489Heart of our numbers,
soule and onely
spright,
516490In whom the tempers and the minds of all
517491Should be
shut vp: heere what
Vlisses speakes,
518492Be
sides th'applau
se and approbation,
519493The which mo
st mighty (for thy place and
sway
520494And thou mo
st reuerend) for the
stretcht out life,
521495I giue to both your
speeches; which were
such
522496As
Agamemnon and the hand of Greece,
523497Should hold vp high in bra
sse, and
such againe
As