760726Ile hide my siluer beard in a gould beauer,

761727And in my vambrace put my withered braunes

762728And meeting him tell him that my Lady,

763729Was fairer then his grandam, and as chast,

764730As may bee in the world, (his youth in flood)

765731Ile proue this troth with my three drops of bloud,

766732AEne. Now heauens for-fend such scarcity of men.

767733Vlis. Amen: faire Lord AEneas let me touch your hand,

770734To our pauilion shall I leade you sir;

771735Achilles shall haue word of this intent,

772736So shall each Lord of Greece from tent to tent,

773737Your selfe shall feast with vs before you goe,

774738And finde the welcome of a noble foe.

776739Vlis. Nestor. Nest. What saies Vlisses?

778740Vlis. I haue a yong conception in my braine,

779741Be you my time to bring it to some shape.

780742Nest. What ist?

782743Vlis: Blunt wedges riue hard knots, the seeded pride,

783744That hath to this maturity blowne vp

784745In ranke Achilles, must or now be cropt,

785746Or shedding breede a noursery of like euill,

786747To ouer-bulk vs all. Nest. Well and how?

788748Vlis: This challeng that the gallant Hector sends,

789749How euer it is spread in generall name

790750Relates in purpose onely to Achilles.

791751Nest. True the purpose is perspicuous as substance,

792752Whose grosenesse little characters sum vp:

793753And in the publication make no straine,

794754But that Achilles weare his braine, as barren,

795755As banks of libia (though Apollo knowes

796756Tis dry enough) will with great speed of iudgement,

797757I with celerity finde Hectors purpose, pointing on him.

799758Vlis. And wake him to the answere thinke you?

800759Nest. Why tis most meete; who may you elce oppose,

801760That can from Hector bring those honours off,

802761If not Achilles: though't be a sportfull combat,

803762Yet in the triall much opinion dwells:

804763For here the Troyans tast our deerst repute,

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