847802His crest that prouder then blew Iris bends,

848803If the dull brainlesse Aiax come safe off

849804Weele dresse him vp in voices, if he faile

850805Yet go we vnder our opinion still,

851806That we haue better men, but hit or misse,

852807Our proiects life this shape of sence assumes

853808Aiax imploy'd plucks downe Achilles plumes.

854809Nest. Now Vlisses I begin to relish thy aduise,

855810And I will giue a taste thereof forthwith,

856811To Agamemnon, go we to him straight

857812Two curres shall tame each other, pride alone

858813Must arre the mastiffs on, as twere a bone. Exeunt.

860815Aiax. Thersites.

861816 Ther. Agamemnon, how if he had biles, full, all ouer, gene-

863817rally. Aiax. Thersites.

864818Ther: And those byles did run (say so), did not the gene-

865819rall run then, were not that a botchy core. Aiax. Dogge.

867820Ther. Then would come some matter from him, I see none

868821now.

869822Aia: Thou bitchwolfs son canst thou not heare, feele then.

871823Ther. The plague of Greece vpon thee thou mongrell beefe

872824witted Lord.

873825Aiax. Speake then thou vnsalted leauen, speake, I will beate

874826thee into hansomnesse.

875827Ther. I shall sooner raile thee into wit and holinesse, but I

876828thinke thy horse will sooner cunne an oration without

877829booke, then thou learne praier without booke, thou canst

878830strike canst thou? a red murrion ath thy Iades trickes.

879831Aiax. Tode-stoole? learne me the proclamation.

880832Ther: Doost thou thinke I haue no sence thou strikest mee

881833thus? Aiax. The proclamation.

882834Ther: Thou art proclaim'd foole I thinke.

883835Aiax. Do not Porpentin, do not, my fingers itch:

884836Ther. I would thou didst itch from head to foote, and I had

885837the scratching of the, I would make thee the lothsomest scab

886838in Greece, when thou art forth in the incursions thou strikest

886.1839as slow as another.