156164Cres. Who were those went by?

157165Man. Queene Hecuba, and Hellen.

158166Cres. And whether goe they?

159167Man. Vp to the Easterne tower,

160168Whose hight commands as subiect all the vaile,

161169To see the battell: Hector whose pacience,

162170Is as a vertue fixt, to day was mou'd:

163171Hee chid Andromache and strooke his armorer,

164172And like as there were husbandry in warre

165173Before the Sunne rose, hee was harnest lyte,

166174And to the field goes he; where euery flower

167175Did as a Prophet weepe what it foresawe,

168176In Hectors wrath. Cres. What was his cause of anger.

170177Man. The noise goes this, there is amonge the Greekes,

172178A Lord of Troian bloud, Nephew to Hector,

173179They call him Aiax. Cres.Good; and what of him.

175180Man. They say hee is a very man per se and stands alone.

176181Cres. So do all men vnlesse the are dronke, sicke, or haue no

177182legges.

178183Man. This man Lady, hath rob'd many beasts of their par-

179184ticular additions, hee is as valiant as the Lyon, churlish as

180185the Beare, slowe as the Elephant: a man into whome nature

181186hath so crowded humors, that his valour is crusht into folly,

182187his folly sauced with discretion: there is no man hath a ver-

183188tue, that he hath not a glimpse of, nor any mā an attaint, but

184189he carries some staine of it. Hee is melancholy without cause

185190and merry against the haire, hee hath the ioynts of euery

186191thing, but euery thing so out of ioynt, that hee is a gowtie

187192Briareus, many hands, & no vse: or purblinde Argus, al eyes,

188193and no sight.

189194Cres. But how should this man that makes me smile, make

190195Hector angry.

191196Man They say hee yesterday cop't Hector in the battell

192197and stroke him downe, the disdaine and shame whereof

193198hath euer since kept Hector fasting and waking.

195199Cres. Who comes here.

196200Man Maddam your vncle Pandarus.

197201Cres. Hectors a gallant man.

198202Man As may be in the world Lady.

199203Pand. Whats that? whats that?

200204Cres. Good morrow vncle Pandarus.

201205Pan. Good morrow cozen Cressid: what doe you talke of?

202206good morrow Alexander: how doe you cozen? when were

203207you at Illum? Cres. This morning vncle.

205208Pan. What were you talking of when I came? was Hector

206209arm'd and gon ere yea came to Illium, Hellen was not vp

207210was she? Cres. Hector was gone but Hellen was not vp?

209211Pan. E'ene so, Hector was stirring early.

210212Cres. That were wee talking of, and of his anger.

211213Pan: Was he angry? Cres: So he saies here.

213214Pan: True hee was so; I know the cause to, heele lay about

214215him to day I can tel them that, & ther's Troylus wil not come

215216farre behind him, let them take heede of Troylus; I can tell

216217them that too. Cres. What is he angry too?

218218Pan: Who Troylus? Troylus is the better man of the two:

220219Cres: Oh Iupiter ther's no comparison.

221220Pan: What not betweene Troylus and Hector? do you know

222221a man if you see him?

223222Cres: I, if I euer saw him before and knew him:

224223Pan: Well I say Troylus is Troylus:

225224Cres. Then you say as I say, for I am sure hee is not Hector.

227225Pan. No nor Hector is not Troylus in some degrees.

228226Cres. Tis iust, to each of them he is himselfe.

229227Pan. Himselfe, alas poore Troylus I would he were.

230228Cres. So he is.

231229Pan. Condition I had gone bare-foot to India.

232230Cres. He is not Hector.

233231Pan. Himselfe? no? hee's not himselfe, would a were him-

234232selfe, well the Gods are aboue, time must friend or end well

235233Troylus well, I would my heart were in her body; no, Hector

236234is not a better man then Troylus.

237235Cres. Excuse me. Pand. He is elder.

239236Cres. Pardon me, pardon me.

240237Pand. Th'others not eome too't, you shall tell me another

241238tale when th'others come too't, Hector shall not haue his

242239will this yeare.

243240Cres. He shall not neede it if he haue his owne.

244241Pand. Nor his qualities.

245242Cres. No matter. Pand. Nor his beautie.

247243Cres. Twould not become him, his own's better.

248244Pan: You haue no iudgement neece; Hellen her selfe

249245swore th'other day that Troylus for a browne fauour (for so

250246tis I must confesse) not browne neither.

251247Cres. No, but browne.

252248Pand. Faith to say truth, browne and not browne.

253249Cres. To say the truth, true and not true.

254250Pand. She praisd his complexion aboue Paris,

255251Cres. Why Paris hath colour inough. Pand. So he has.

257252Cres. Then Troylus should haue too much, if shce praizd

258253him aboue, his complexion is higher then his, hee

259254hauing colour enough, and the other higher, is too flaming

260255a praise for a good complexion, I had as lieue Helens golden

261256tongue had commended Troylus for a copper nose.

262257Pand. I sweare to you I thinke Helen loues him better then(Paris.

264258Cres. Then shees a merry greeke indeed.

265259Pand. Nay I am sure she dooes, she came to him th'other

266260day into the compast window, and you know hee has not

267261past three or foure haires on his chinne.

268262Cres. Indeed a Tapsters Arithmetique may soone bring

269263his particulars therein to a totall.

270264Pand. Why he is very yong, and yet will hc within three

271265pound lifte as much as his brother Hector.

272266Cres. Is he so yong a man, and so old a lifter.

273267Pand. But to prooue to you that Hellen loues him, shee

274268eame and puts mee her white hand to his clouen chin.

275269Cres. Iuno haue mercy, how came it clouen?

276270Pan. Why, you know tis dimpled,

277271I thinke his smyling becomes him better then any man in

278272all Phrigia. Cres. Oh he smiles valianty.

280273Pan. Dooes hee not?

281274Cres. Oh yes, and twere a clowd in Autumne.

282275Pan. Why go to then, but to proue to you that Hellen

283276loues Troylus.

284277Cres. Troylus wil stand to thee proofe if youle prooue it so.

286278Pan. Troylus, why hee esteemes her no more then I e-

287279steeme an addle egge:

288280Cres. If you loue an addle egge as well as you loue an idle

289281head you would eate chickens ith shell.

290282Pan. I cannot chuse but laugh to thinke how she ticled

291283his chin, indeed shee has a maruel's white hand I must needs

292284confesse.

293285Cres. Without the rack.

294286Pan. And shee takes vpon her to spie a white heare on

295287his chinne.

296288Cres. Alas poore chin many a wart is ritcher.

297289Pan. But there was such laughing, Queene Hecuba laught

298290that her eyes ran ore.

299291Cres. With milstones.

300292Pan. And Cassandra laught.

301293Cres. But there was a more temperate fire vnder the por

302294of her eyes: did her eyes run ore to?

303295Pan. And Hector laught.

304296Cres. At what was all this laughing.

305297Pan. Marry at the white heare that Hellen spied on Troy-

306298lus chin.

307299Cres. And t'had beene a greene heare I should haue

308300laught too.

309301Pan. They laught not so much at the heare as at his pret-

310302ty answere.

311303Cres, What was his answere?

312304Pan. Quoth shee heere's but two and fifty heires on your

313305chinne; and one of them is white.

314306Cres. This is her question.

315307Pan. Thats true, make no question of that, two and fiftie

B heires

316308heires quoth hee, and one white, that white heire is my fa-

317309ther, and all the rest are his sonnes. Iupiter quoth shee, which

318310of these heires is Paris my husband? the forked one quoth

319311he, pluckt out and giue it him: but there was such laughing,

320312and Hellen so blusht, and Paris so chaf't, and all the rest so

321313laught that it past.

322314Cres. So let it now for it has beene a great while going by.

324315Pan. Wel cozen I tould you a thing yesterday, think on't.

326316Cres. So I doe.

327317Pan. Ile be sworne tis true, he will weepe you an'twere a

328318man borne in Aprill. Sound a retreate.

329319Cres. And Ile spring vp in his teares an'twere a nettle a-

330320gainst May.

331321Pan. Harke they are comming from the field, shall we

332322stand vp here and see them as they passe toward Ilion, good

333323Neece do, sweete Neece Cresseida.

334324Cres. At your pleasure.

335325Pan. Heere, here, here's an excellent place, here wee may

336326see most brauely, ile tell you them all by their names, as they

337327passe by, but marke Troylus aboue the rest. Enter AEneas.

339328Cres. Speake not so lowde.

340329Pan. Thats AEneas, is not that a braue man, hees one of

341330the flowers of Troy I can tell you, but marke Troylus, you shal

342331see anon. Cres. Who's that?

345333Pan. Thats Antenor, he has a shrow'd wit I can tell you,

346334and hee's man good enough, hees one o'th soundest iudge-

347335ments in Troy whosoeuer, and a proper man of person, when

348336comes Troylus, ile shew you Troylus anon, if hee see me, you

349337shall see him nod at mee.

350338Cres. Will he giue you the nod:

351339Pan. You shall see:

352340Crcs. If he do the ritch shall haue more. Enter Hector.

354341Pan. Thats Hector, that, that, looke you that, thers a fel-

355342low! goe thy way Hector, ther's a braue man Neece, O braue

356343Hector, looke how hee lookes, theres a countenance, ist not a

357344braue man?

358345Cres. O a braue man.

359346Pan: Is a not? it dooes a man heart good, looke you what

360347hacks are on his helmet, looke you yonder, do you see, looke

361348you there, thers no iesting, thers laying on, takt off, who will

362349as they say, there be hacks.

363350Cres. Be those with swords.

365352Pan: Swords, any thing he cares not, and the diuell come to

366353him, its all one, by Gods lid it dooes ones heart good. Yon-

367354der comes Paris, yonder comes Paris, looke yee yonder

368355Neece, ist not a gallant man to, ist not, why this is braue now,

369356who said he came hurt home to day. Hee's not hurt, why this

370357will do Hellens heart good now ha? would I could see Troy-

371358lus now, you shall see Troylus anon.

373359Cres. Whose that?

375361Pan. Thats Helenus, I maruell where Troylus is, thats He-

376362lenus, I thinke he went not forth to day, thats Helenus.

378363Cres: Can Helenus fight vncle?

379364Pan: Helenus no: yes heele fight indifferent, well, I maruell

380365where Troylus is; harke doe you not here the people crie

381366Troylus? Helenus is a priest;

382367Cres: What sneaking fellow comes yonder?

384369Panda: Where? yonder? thats Deiphobus. Tis Troylus!

385370theres a man Neece, hem? braue Troylus the Prince of

386371chiualrie.

387372Cres. Peace for shame peace.

388373Pan. Marke him, note him: O braue Troylus, looke well

389374vpon him Neece, looke you how his sword is bloudied, and

390375his helme more hackt then Hectors, and how hee lookes, and

391376how hee goes? O admirable youth, hee neuer saw three and

392377twenty, go thy way Troylus, go thy way, had I a sister were a

393378grace, or a daughter a Goddesse, hee should take his choiee,

394379O admirable man! Paris? Paris is durt to him, and I warrant

395380Hellen to change would giue an eye to boote.

398381Cres. Here comes more.

399382Pa. Asses, fooles, doults, chaff & bran, chaff & bran, porredge

400383after meate, I could liue and die in the eyes of Troylus, nere

B2 looke

401384looke, nere looke, the Eagles are gonne, crowes and dawes,

402385crowes and dawes, I had rather bee such a man as Troylus,

403386then Agamemnon and all Greece.

404387Cres. There is amongst the Greekes Achilles a better

405388man then Troylus.

406389Pan. Achilles, a dray-man, a porter, a very Cammell.

407390Cres. Well, well:

408391Pan. Well, well, why haue you any discretion, haue you

409392any eyes, doe you know what a man is? is not birth, beauty,

410393good shape, discourse, man-hood, learning, gentlenesse, ver-

411394tue youth, liberallity and such like, the spice & salt that sea-

412395son a man.

413396Cres. I a minst man, and then to bee bak't with no date in

414397the pie, for then the mans date is out:

415398Pan. You are such a woman a man knowes not at what

416399ward you lie:

417400Cres: Vpon my backe to defend my bellie, vpon my wit

418401to defend my wiles, vpon my secrecy to defend mine hones-

419402ty, my maske to defend my beauty, and you to defend all

420403these: and at al these wards I lie, at a thousand watches.

422404Pan. Say one of your watches.

423405Cres. Nay Ile watch you for that; and thats one of the

424406chiefest of them two: If I cannot ward what I would not

425407haue hit: I can watch you for telling how I tooke the blowe

426408vnlesse it swell past hiding, and then its past watching:

429409Pan: You are such another: Enter Boy:

430410Boy: Sir my Lord would instantlie speake with you.

431411Pan: Where?

432412Boy: At your owne house there he vnarmes him:

433413Pan. Good boy tell him I come, I doubt he be hurt, fare ye

434414well good Neice: Cres: Adiew vncle:

436415Pan: I wilbe with you Neice by and by:

437416Cres: To bring vncle: Pan: I a token from Troylus:

439417Cres: By the same token you are a Bawde,

440418Words, vowes, guifts, teares and loues full sacrifize:

441419He offers in anothers enterprize,

442420But more in Troylus thousand fould I see,

443421Then in the glasse of Pandars praise may bee:

444422Yet hold l off: women are angels woing,

445423,,Things woone are done, ioyes soule lies in the dooing.

446424That shee belou'd, knows naught that knows not this,

447425,,Men price the thing vngaind more then it is,

448426That she was neuer yet that euer knew

449427Loue got so sweet, as when desire did sue,

450428Therefore this maxim out of loue I teach,

451429"Atchiuement is command; ungaind beseech,

452430Then though my hearts content firme loue doth beare,

453431Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appeare. Exit.