of Troylus and Cresseida.
605574Growes dainty of his worth, and in his Tent
606575Lies mocking our de
signes
: with him
Patroclus 607576Vpon a lazie bed the liue-long day,
609578And with ridiculous and
sillie a
ction,
610579Which (
slanderer
) he Imitation calls,
611580He pageants vs. Some-time great
Agamemnon, 612581Thy tople
sse deputation he puts on,
613582And like a
strutting Player, who
se conceit
614583Lyes in his ham-
string, and doth thinke it rich
615584To heere the woodden dialogue and
sound,
616585Twixt his
stretcht footing and the
scoa
ffollage,
617586Such to be pitied and ore-re
sted
seeming,
618587He a
cts thy greatne
sse in. And when he
speakes,
619588Tis like a chime a mending, with termes vn
square,
620589Which from the tongue of roaring
Tiphon dropt,
621590Would
seeme hiperboles, at this fu
stie
stu
ffe,
622591The large
Achilles on his pre
st bed lolling,
623592From his deepe che
st laughes out a lowd applau
se,
624593Cries excellent; 'tis
Agamemnon right,
625594Now play me
Nestor, hem and
stroake thy beard,
626595As he being dre
st to
some Oration,
627596That's done, as neere as the extreme
st ends
628597Of paralells, as like as
Uulcan and his wife
: 629598Yet god
Achilles still cries excellent,
630599Tis
Nestor right: now play him me
Patroclus, 631600Arming to an
swer in a night alarme,
632601And then for
sooth the faint defe
cts of age,
633602Mu
st be the
sc
aene of myrth, to co
ffe and
spit,
634603And with a pal
sie fumbling on his gorget,
635604Shake in and out the riuet, and at this
sport
636605Sir valour dyes, cryes O enough
Patroclus, 637606Or giue me ribbs of
steele, I
shall
split all
638607In plea
sure of my
spleene, and in this fa
shion,
639608All our abilities, guifts, natures
shapes,
640609Seueralls and generalls of grace exa
ct,
641610Atchiuements, plots, orders, preuentions,
642611Excitements to the
field, or
speech for truce,
C Successe