567536But by degree stand in authentique place:

568537Take but degree away, vntune that string,

569538And harke what discord followes, each thing melts

570539In meere oppugnancie: the bounded waters

571540Should lift their bosomes higher then the shores,

572541And make a sop of all this solid globe:

573542Strength should be Lord of imbecilitie,

574543And the rude sonne should strike his father dead.

575544Force should be right or rather right and wrong,

576545(Betweene whose endlesse iarre Iustice recides)

577546Should loose their names, and so should Iustice to?

578547Then euery thing include it selfe in power,

579548Power into will, will into appetite,

580549And appetite an vniuersall Woolfe,

581550(So doubly seconded with will and power)

582551Must make perforce an vniuersall prey,

583552And last eate vp himselfe.

584553Great Agamemnon,

585554This chaos when degree is suffocate,

586555Followes the choaking,

587556And this neglection of degree it is,

588557That by a pace goes backward with a purpose

589558It hath to clime. The generalls disdaind,

590559By him one step below, he by the next,

591560That next by him beneath, so euery step,

592561Exampl'd by the first pace that is sick

593562Of his superior, growes to an enuious feauer

594563Of pale and bloudlesse emulation,

595564And 'tis this feauer that keepes Troy on foote,

596565Not her owne sinnews. To end a tale of length,

597566Troy in our weaknesse stands not in her strength.

598567Nestor. Most wisely hath Vlisses here discouerd,

599568The feuer whereof all our power is sick.

600569Agamem. The nature of the sicknesse found, Vlisses

601570What is the remedie?

602571Ulisses. The great Achilles whom opinion crownes,

603572The sinnow and the fore-hand of our hoste,

604573Hauing his eare full of his ayrie fame,