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 visage,

20981983Euen to my full of view. A labour sau'd.

20991985Thersi. A wonder. Achil. What?

21011986Thersi. Aiax goes vp and downe the field asking for

21021987himselfe. Achil. How so?

21041988Thersi. He must fight singly to morrow with Hector, and

21051989is so prophetically proud of an heroycall cudgeling, that

21061990he raues in saying nothing.

21071991Achil. How can that be?

21081992Thersi. Why a stalkes vp and downe like a peacock, a

21091993stride and a stand: ruminates like an hostisse, 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

21162000himselfe 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 languagelesse, a

21202004monster, a plague of opinion, a man may weare it on both

21222005sides like a lether Ierkin.

21232006Achil. Thou must be my Ambassador Thersites.

21242007Thersi. Who I: why heele answer no body: hee profef-

21252008ses not answering, speaking is for beggers: he weares his

21262009tongue in's armes. I will put on his presence, let Patroclus

21272010make demands to me. You shall see the pageant of Aiax.

21292011Achil. To him Patroclus, tell him I humbly desire the va-

21302012liant Aiax, to inuite the valorous Hector to come vnarm'd

21312013to my tent, and to procure safe-conduct for his person, of

21322014the magnanimous and most illustrious, sixe or seauen times

21332015honour'd Captaine Generall of the armie. Agamemnon,

21342016do this.