of Troylus and Cresseida.
524498As venerable
Nestor (hatcht in
siluer)
525499Should with a bond of ayre
strong as the Axel-tree,
526500(On which heauen rides) knit all the Greeki
sh eares
527501To his experienc't tongue, yet let it plea
se both
528502Thou great and wi
se, to heare
Vlisses speake.
534503Troy yet vpon his ba
ses had beene downe,
535504And the great
Hectors sword had lackt a ma
ster
536505But for the
se in
stances.
537506The
specialtie of rule hath beene negle
cted,
538507And looke how many Grecian tents do
stand,
539508Hollow vpon this plaine,
so many hollow fa
ctions,
540509When that the generall is not like the hiue,
541510To whom the forragers
shall all repaire,
542511What honey is expc
cted
? Degree being vi
sarded
543512Th'vnworthie
st shewes as fairly in the maske.
544513The heauens them-
selues, the plannets and this center
545514Ob
serue degree, prioritie and place,
546515In
sisture, cour
se, proportion,
sea
son, forme,
547516O
ffice and cu
stome, in all line of order.
548517And therefore is the glorious planet Sol,
549518In noble eminence enthron'd and
spherd,
550519Amid
st the other; who
se medcinable eye,
551520Corre
cts the in
fluence of euill Planets,
552521And po
sts like the Commandment of a King,
553522Sans check to good and bad. But when the Planets,
554523In euill mixture to di
sorder wander,
555524What plagues, and what portents, what mutinie
? 556525What raging of the
sea,
shaking of earth
? 557526Commotion in the winds, frights, changes, horrors
558527Diuert and crack, rend and deracinate,
559528The vnitie and married calme of
states
560529Quite from their
fixure: O when degree is
shakt,
561530Which is the ladder of all high de
signes,
562531The enterpri
se is
sick. How could communities,
563532Degrees in
schooles, and brother-hoods in Citties,
564533Peacefull commerce from deuidable
shores,
565534The primogenitie and due of birth,
566535Prerogatiue of age, crownes,
scepters, lawrels,
But