The history
20941979To
see vs heere vnarmd. I haue a womans longing,
20951980An appetite that I am
sick with-all,
20961981To
see great
Hector in his weeds of peace,
20971982To talke with him, and to behold his vi
sage,
20981983Euen to my full of view. A labour
sau'd.
21011986Thersi. Aiax goes vp and downe the
field asking for
21041988Thersi. He mu
st fight
singly to morrow with
Hector, and
21051989is
so prophetically proud of an heroycall cudgeling, that
21081992Thersi. Why a
stalkes vp and downe like a peacock, a
21091993stride and a
stand: ruminates like an ho
sti
sse, that hath no
21101994Arithmatique but her braine to
set downe her reckoning:
21111995bites his lip with a politique regarde, as who
should
say
21121996there were witte in this head and twoo'd out: and
so there
21131997is. But it lyes as coldly in him, as
fire in a
flint, which will
21141998not
show without knocking, the mans vndone for euer, for
21151999if
Hector breake not his neck ith' combate, hee'le breakt
21162000him
selfe in vaine glory. Hee knowes not mee. I
sayd
21172001good morrow
Aiax: And hee replyes thankes
Agamem- 21182002non. What thinke you of this man that takes mee for the
21192003Generall? Hees growne a very land-
fish languagele
sse, a
21202004mon
ster, a plague of opinion, a man may weare it on both
21232006Achil. Thou mu
st be my Amba
ssador
Thersites.
21242007Thersi. Who I: why heele an
swer no body: hee profef
- 21252008ses not an
swering,
speaking is for beggers
: he weares his
21262009tongue in's armes. I will put on his pre
sence, let
Patroclus 21272010make demands to me. You
shall
see the pageant of
Aiax. 21292011Achil. To him
Patroclus, tell him I humbly de
sire the va
- 21302012liant
Aiax, to inuite the valorous
Hector to come vnarm'd
21312013to my tent, and to procure
safe-condu
ct for his per
son, of
21322014the magnanimous and mo
st illu
strious,
sixe or
seauen times
21332015honour'd Captaine Generall of the armie.
Agamemnon, Patr.