12911219melancholy if you will fauour the man. But by my head 'tis

12921220pride: but why, why, let him shew vs a cause?

12941221Nest. What mooues Aiax thus to bay at him?

12951222Vliss. Achillis hath inuegled his foole from him,

12961223Nest. Who Thersites? Vlis. He.

12981224Nest. Thē wil Aiax lack matter, if he haue lost his argumẽt.

13001225Vli. No, you see he is his argument, that has his argument

13011226Achilles.

13021227Nes. All the better, their fractiō is more our wish then theit

13031228faction, but it was a strōg composure a foole could disunite.

13051229Vli. The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily vnty,

13071230Heere comes Patroclus. Nest. No Achilles with him.

13091231Vlis. The Elephant hath ioynts, but none for courtesie,

13101232His legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

13111233Patro. Achilles bids me say he is much sorry,

13121234If any thing more then your sport and pleasure

13131235Did mooue your greatnesse, and this noble state,

13141236To call vpon him. He hopes it is no other

13151237But for your health, and your disgestion sake,

13161238An after dinners breath.

13171239Agam. Heere you Patroclus:

13181240We are too well acquainted with these answers,

13191241But his euasion winged thus swift with scorne,

13201242Cannot out-flie our apprehensions,

13211243Much attribute he hath, and much the reason

13221244Why we ascribe it to him. Yet all his vertues,

13231245Not vertuously on his owne part beheld,

13241246Doe in our eyes begin to lose their glosse,

13251247Yea like faire fruite in an vnholsome dish,

13261248Are like to rott vntasted. Go and tell him,

13271249We come to speake with him, and you shall not sinne,

13281250If you do say, we thinke him ouer-proud

13291251And vnder-honest: in selfe assumption greater

13301252Then in the note of iudgement. And worthier then himselfe

13311253Heere tend the sauage strangenesse he puts on

13321254Disguise, the holy strength of their commaund,

13331255And vnder-write in an obseruing kinde,

13341256His humorous predominance: yea watch