483460Puffing at all, winnowss the light away,

484461And what hath masse or matter by it selfe,

485462Lyes rich in vertue and vnmingled.

486463Nestor. With due obseruance of the godlike seate,

487464Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply

488465Thy latest 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 brest, making their way

493469With those of nobler bulke?

494470But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage

495471The gentle Thetis, and anon, behold

496472The strong ribbd barke through liquid mountaines cut,

497473Bounding betweene the two moyst elements,

498474Like Perseus horse. Where's then the sawcie boate,

499475Whose weake vntymberd sides but euen now

500476Corriuald greatnesse? either to harbor fled,

501477Or made a toste for Neptune: euen so

502478Doth valours shew, and valours worth deuide

503479In stormes of fortune; for in her ray and brightnesse

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.

513487Uliss. Agamemnon,

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,

518492Besides th'applause and approbation,

519493The which most mighty (for thy place and sway

520494And thou most 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 brasse, and such againe