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.

887840Aiax. I say the proclamation.

888841Ther. Thou gromblest and raylest euery houre on Achil-

889842les, and thou art as full of enuy at his greatnesse, as Cerberus

890843is at Proserpinas beauty, I that thou barkst at him.

891844Aiax. Mistres Thersites.

892845Ther. Thou shouldst strike him. AiaxCoblofe,

894846Hee would punne thee into shiuers with his fist, as a sayler

895847breakes a bisket, you horson curre. Do? do?

897848Aiax: Thou stoole for a witch:

898849Ther. I, Do? do? thou sodden witted Lord, thou hast

899850no more braine then I haue in mine elbowes, an Asinico

900851may tutor thee, you scuruy valiant asse, thou art heere but to

901852thrash Troyans, and thou art bought and sould among those

902853of any wit, like a Barbarian slaue. If thou vse to beate mee I

903854will beginne at thy heele, and tell what thou art by ynches,

904855thou thing of no bowells thou.

905856Aiax. You dog: Ther. You scuruy Lord.

907857Aiax. You curre.

908858Ther. Mars his Idiot, do rudenesse, do Camel, do, do.

910859Achil. Why how now Aiax wherefore do yee thus,

911860How now Thersites whats the matter man.

912861Ther. You see him there? do you?

913862Achil. I whats the matter. Ther: Nay looke vpon him.

915863Achil: So I do, whats the matter?

916864Ther: Nay but regard him well.

917865Achil: Well, why so I do.

918866Ther: But yet you looke not well vpon him, for who some

919867euer you take him to be he is Aiax.

920868Achil. I know that foole.

921869Ther. I but that foole knowes not himselfe.

922870Aiax: Therefore I beate thee.

923871Ther: Lo, lo, lo, lo, what modicums of wit he vtters, his eua-

924872sions haue eares thus long, I haue bobd his braine more then

925873he has beate my bones. It will buy nine sparrowes for a pen-

926874ny, and his pia mater is not worth the ninth part of a spar-

927875row: this Lord (Achilles) Aiax, who weares his wit in his bel-

928876ly, and his guts in his head, I tell you what I say of him.

930877Ach. What. Ther. I say this Aiax.

932878Achil. Nay good Aiax. Ther.Has not so much wit.

934879Achil. Nay I must hold you.

935880Ther. As will stop the eye of Hellens needle, for whom

936881he comes to fight. Achil.Peace foole?

938882Ther. I would haue peace and quietnesse, but the foole

939883will not, he there, that he: looke you there?

940884Aiax. Oh thou damned curre I shall-------------

941885Achil. Will you set your wit to a fooles.

942886Ther. No I warrant you, the fooles will shame it.

943887Patro. Good words Thesites. Achil.Whats the quarrell.

945888Aiax. I bad the vile oule goe learne mee the tenor of the

946889proclamation, and he railes vpon me.

947890Ther. I serue thee not? Aiax.Well, go to, go to.

949891Ther. I serue here voluntary.

950892Achil. Your last seruice was suffrance: twas not voluntary,

951893no man is beaten voluntary, Aiax was here the voluntary,

952894and you as vnder an Impresse.

953895Ther. E'ene so, a great deale of your witte to, lies in your

954896sinnewes, or els there bee liers, Hector shall haue a great

955897catch and knocke at either of your beains, a were as good

956898crack a fusty nut with no kernell.

957899Achil. What with me to Thersites.

958900Ther. Thers Vlisses and old Nestor, whose wit was mouldy

959901ere their grandsiers had nailes, yoke you like draught oxen,

960902and make you plough vp the wars.

961903Achil. What? what?

962904Ther. Yes good sooth, to Achilles, to Aiax, to ------------

963905Aiax. I shall cut out your tongue.

964906Ther. Tis no matter, I shall speake as much as thou after-(wards.

966907Patro. No more words Thersites peace.

967908Ther. I will hold my peace when Achilles brooch bids me,(shall I?

969909Achil. There's for you Patroclus.

970910Ther. I will see you hang'd like Clatpoles, ere I come any

971911more to your tents, I will keepe where there is wit stirring,

972912and leaue the faction of fooles. Exit.

973913Patro. A good riddance.

974914Achil. Marry this sir is proclaim'd through all our hoste,

975915That Hector by the first houre of the Sunne:

D Will

976916Will with a trumpet twixt our Tents and Troy,

977917To morrow morning call some Knight to armes,

978918That hath a stomack, and such a one that dare,

979919Maintaine I know not what, (tis trash) farewell-------

980920Aiax. Farewell, who shall answer him.

981921Achil. I know not, tis put to lottry, otherwise,

982922He knew his man.

983923Aiax. O meaning you? I will go learne more of it.