18491737Cal Now Princes for the seruice I haue done,

18501738Th'aduantage of the time prompts me aloud,

18511739To call for recompence: appere it to mind,

18521740That through the sight I beare in things to loue,

18531741I haue abandond Troy, left my possession,

18541742Incurd a traytors name, exposd my selfe,

18551743From certaine and possest conueniences,

18561744To doubtfull fortunes, sequestring from me all,

18571745That time acquaintance, custome and condition,

18581746Made tame, and most familiar to my nature:

18591747And here to doe you seruice am become,

18601748As new into the world, strange, vnacquainted,

18611749I do beseech you as in way of tast,

18621750To giue me now a little benefit.

F4 Out

18631751Out of those many registred in promise,

18641752Which you say liue to come in my behalfe:

18651753Aga. What wouldst thou of vs Troian? make demand?

18671754Calc. You haue a Troian prisoner cald Antenor,

18681755Yesterday tooke, Troy holds him very deere.

18691756Oft haue you (often haue you thankes therefore)

18701757Desird my Cressed in right great exchange.

18711758Whom Troy hath still deni'd, but this Anthenor,

18721759I know is such a wrest in their affaires:

18731760That their negotiations all must slacke,

18741761Wanting his mannage and they will almost,

18751762Giue vs a Prince of blood a Sonne of Pryam,

18761763In change of him. Let him be sent great Princes,

18771764And he shall buy my daughter: and her presence,

18781765Shall quite strike of all seruice I haue done,

18791766In most accepted paine.

18801767Aga. Let Diomedes beare him,

18811768And bring vs Cressid hither, Calcas shall haue

18821769What he requests of vs: good Diomed

18831770Furnish you farely for this enterchange,

18841771Withall bring word If Hector will to morrow,

18851772Bee answered in his challenge. Aiax is ready.

18861773Dio. This shall I vndertake, and tis a burthen

18871774Which I am proud to bcare. Exit,

18891776Uli. Achilles stands ith entrance of his tent,

18901777Please it our generall passe strangely by him:

18911778As if he were forgot, and princes all,

18921779Lay negligent and loose regard vpon him,

18931780I will come last, tis like heele question mee.

18941781Why such vnpaulsiue eyes are bent? why turnd on him,

18951782If so I haue derision medecinable,

18961783To vse betweene your strangnes and his pride,

18971784Which his owne will shall haue desire to drinke,

18981785It may doe good, pride hath no other glasse,

18991786To show it selfe but pride: for supple knees,

19001787Feed arrogance and are the proud mans fees.

19011788Aga. Weele execute your purpose and put on,

19021789A forme of strangnesse as we pas along,

19031790So do each Lord, and either greet him not

19041791Or els disdaynfully, which shall shake him more:

19051792Then if not lookt on. I will lead the way.

19061793Achil. What comes the generall to speake with mee?

19071794You know my minde Ile fight no more 'gainst Troy.

19081795Aga. What saies Achilles would he ought with vs?

19091796Nest. Would you my Lord ought with the generall.

19101797Achil. No.

19111798Nest. Nothing my Lord:

19121799Aga. The better.

19131800Achil. Good day, good day:

19141801Men. How do you? how do you?

19151802Achil. What do's the Cnckould scorne me?

19161803Aiax. How now Patroclus?

19171804Achil. Good morrow Aiax?

19181805Aiax. Ha:

19191806Achil. Good morrow.

19201807Aiax. I and good next day too. Exeunt.

19211808Ach. What meane these fellowes know they not Achilles?

19231809Patro. They passe by strangely: they were vs'd to bend,

19241810To send their smiles before them to Achilles:

19251811To come as humbly as they vsd to creep, to holy aultars:

19261812Achil. What am I poore of late?

19271813Tis certaine, greatnesse once falne out with fortune,

19281814Must fall out with men to, what the declin'd is,

19291815He shall as soone reade in the eyes of others

19301816As feele in his owne fall: for men like butter-flies

19311817Shew not their mealy wings but to the Summer,

19321818And not a man for being simply man,

19331819Hath any honour, but honour for those honours

19341820That are without him, as place, ritches, and fauour,

19351821Prizes of accident as oft as merit

19361822Which when they fall as being slipery standers,

19371823The loue that lean'd on them as slipery too,

19381824Doth one pluck downe another, and together, die in the fall,

19391825But tis not so with mee,

19401826Fortune and I are friends, I do enioy:

G At

19411827At ample point all that I did possesse,

19421828Saue these mens lookes, who do me thinkes finde out:

19431829Some thing not worth in me such ritch beholding,

19441830As they haue often giuen. Here is Vlisses

19451831Ile interrupt his reading, how now Vlisses?

19461832Vliss. Now great Thetis Sonne.

19471833Achil. What are you reading?

19481834Vliss. A strange fellow here,

19491835Writes me that man, how derely euer parted:

19501836How much in hauing or without or in

19511837Cannot, make bost to haue that which he hath,

19521838Nor feeles not what he owes but by reflection:

19531839As when his vertues ayming vpon others,

19541840Heate them and they retort that heate againe

19551841To the first giuers.

19561842Achil. This is not strange Vlisses,

19571843The beauty that is borne here in the face:

19581844The bearer knowes not, but commends it selfe.

1958.11845To others eyes, nor doth the eye it selfe

1958.21846That most pure spirit of sence, behold it selfe

19591847Not going from it selfe: but eye to eye opposed,

19601848Sallutes each other, with each others forme.

19611849For speculation turnes not to it selfe,

19621850Till it hath trauel'd and is married there?

19631851Where it may see it selfe: this is not strange at all.

19641852Uliss. I do not straine at the position,

19651853It is familiar, but at the authors drift,

19661854Who in his circumstance expressly prooues,

19671855That no man is the Lord of any thing:

19681856Though in and of him there be much consisting,

19691857Till he communicate his parts to others,

19701858Nor doth hee of himselfe know them for aught:

19711859Till he behold them formed in the applause.

19721860Where th'are extended: who like an arch reuerb'rate

19731861The voice againe or like a gate of steele:

19741862Fronting the Sunne, receiues and renders back

19751863His figure and his heate. I was much rap't in this,

19761864And apprehended here immediately,

19771865Th'vnknowne Aiax, heauens what a man is there?

19781866A very horse, that has he knowes not what

19791867Nature what things there are.

19801868Most obiect in regard, and deere in vse,

19811869What things againe most deere in the esteeme:

19821870And poore in worth, now shall we see to morrow,

19831871An act that very chance doth throw vpon him

19841872Aiax renown'd? O heauens what some men doe,

19851873While some men leaue to doe.

19861874How some men creepe in skittish fortunes hall,

19871875Whiles others play the Ideots in her eyes,

19881876How one man eates into anothers pride,

19891877While pride is fasting in his wantonesse.

19901878To see these Grecian Lords, why euen already:

19911879They clap the lubber Aiax on the shoulder

19921880As if his foote were one braue Hectors brest,

19931881And great Troy shriking.

19941882Achill. I doe beleeue it,

19951883For they past by me as misers do by beggars,

19961884Neither gaue to me good word nor looke:

19971885What are my deeds forgot?

19981886Vliss. Time hath (my Lord) a wallet at his back,

19991887Wherein he puts almes for obliuion:

20001888A great siz'd monster of ingratitudes,

20011889Those scraps are good deeds past,

20021890Which are deuour'd as fast as they are made,

20031891Forgot as soone as done, perseuerance deere my Lord:

20041892Keepes honour bright, to haue done, is to hang,

20051893Quite out of fashion like a rusty male,

20061894In monumentall mockry? take the instant way,

20071895For honour trauells in a straight so narrow:

20081896Where on but goes a brest, keepe then the path

20091897For emulation hath a thousand Sonnes,

20101898That one by one pursue, if you giue way,

20111899Or turne a side from the direct forth right:

20121900Like to an entred tide they all rush by,

20131901And leaue you him, most, then what they do in present:

20171902Though lesse then yours in passe, must ore top yours.

G2 For

20181903For time is like a fashionable hoast,

20191904That slightly shakes his parting guest by th'hand,

20201905And with his armes out-stretcht as he would flie,

20211906Graspes in the commer: the welcome euer smiles,

20221907And farewell goes out sighing. Let not vertue seeke,

20231908Remuneration for the thing it was. For beauty, wit,

20241909High birth, vigor of bone, desert in seruice,

20251910Loue, friendship, charity, are subiects all,

20261911To enuious and calumniatig time.

20271912One touch of nature makes the whole world kin,

20281913That all with one consent praise new-borne gaudes,

20291914Though they are made and moulded of things past,

20301915And goe to dust, that is a little guilt,

20311916More laud then guilt ore-dusted.

20321917The present eye praises the present obiect.

20331918Then maruell not thou great and complet man,

20341919That all the Greekes begin to worship Aiax;

20351920Since things in motion sooner catch the eye,

20361921That what stirs not. The crie went once on thee,

20371922And still it might, and yet it may againe,

20381923If thou wouldst not entombe thy selfe aliue,

20391924And case thy reputation in thy tent,

20401925Whose glorious deeds but in these fields of late,

20411926Made emulous missions mongst the gods them selues

20421927And draue great Mars to faction.

20431928Achil. Of this my priuacie,

20441929I haue strong reasons.

20451930Vlis. But gainst your priuacie,

20461931The reasons are more potent and heroycall:

20471932Tis knowne Achilles that you are in loue

20481933With one of Priams daughters.

20491934Achil. Ha? knowne.

20501935Ulis. Is that a wonder:

20511936The prouidencc thats in a watchfull state,

20521937Knowes almost euery thing,

20531938Findes bottom in the vncomprehensiue depth,

20541939Keepes place with thought and almost like the gods,

20551940Do thoughts vnuaile in their dumbe cradles.

20561941There is a mysterie (with whom relation

20571942Durst neuer meddle) in the soule of state,

20581943Which hath an operation more diuine,

20591944Then breath or pen can giue expressure to:

20601945All the commerse that you haue had with Troy,

20611946As perfectly is ours, as yours my Lord,

20621947And better would it fitt Achilles much,

20631948To throw downe Hector then Polixena.

20641949But it must grieue young Pirhus now at home,

20651950When fame shall in our Ilands sound her trumpe,

20661951And all the Greekish girles shall tripping sing,

20671952Great Hectors sister did Achilles winne,

20681953But our great Aiax brauely beate downe him:

20691954Farewell my Lord: I as your louer speake,

20701955The foole slides ore the Ice that you should breake.

20711956Patr. To this effect Achilles haue I moou'd you,

20721957A woman impudent and mannish growne,

20731958Is not more loth'd then an effeminate man

20741959In time of action: I stand condemnd for this

20751960They thinke my little stomack to the warre,

20761961And your great loue to me, restraines you thus,

20771962Sweete rouse your selfe, and the weake wanton Cupid,

20781963Shall from your neck vnloose his amorous fould,

20791964And like dewdrop from the Lions mane,

20801965Be shooke to ayre.

20811966Ach. Shall Aiax fight with Hector.

20821967Patro. I and perhaps receiue much honor by him.

20831968Achil. I see my reputation is at stake,

20841969My fame is shrowdly gor'd.

20851970Patro. O then beware.

20861971Those wounds heale ill, that men do giue themselues,

20871972Omission to doe what is necessary.

20881973Seales a commission to a blanke of danger,

20891974And danger like an ague subtly taints

20901975Euen then when they sit idely in the sunne.

20911976Achil. Go call Thersites hether sweet Patroclus,

20921977Ile send the foole to Aiax, and desire him

20931978T''inuite the Troyan lords after the combate,

G3 To

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.

21352017Patro. Ioue blesse great Aiax. Thers. Hum.

21372018Patr. I comc from the worthy Achilles.

21382019Thers. Ha?

21392020Patr. Who most humbly desires you to inuite Hector to(his tent.

21402021Thers. Hum?

21422022Patr. And to procure safe conduct from Agamemnon.

21432023Thers. Agamemnon?

21442024Patr. I my Lord. Thers. Ha?

21462025Patr. What say you too't.

21472026Thers. God buy you with all my heart.

21482027Patr. Your answer sir.

21492028Thers. If to morrow be a faire day, by a leuen of the clock

21502029it will goe one way or other, howsoeuer he shall pay for me

21512030ere hee ha's me. Patr. Your answer sir.

21532031Thers. Fare yee well with all my heart.

21542032Achil. Why, but he is not in this tune, is he?

21552033Thers. No: but out of tune thus. What musick will be in

21562034him, when Hector ha's knockt out his braines, I know not.

21572035But I am sure none, vnlesse the fidler Apollo get his sinnews

21582036to make Catlings on.

21592037Achil. Come, thou shalt beare a letter to him straight.

21612038Thers. Let mee beare another to his horse, for thats the

21622039more capable creature.

21632040Achil. My minde is troubled like a fountaine stird,

21642041And I myselse see not the bottome of it.

21652042Thers. Would the fountaine of your minde were cleere

21662043againe, that I might water an Asse at it, I had rather be a tick

21672044in a sheepe, then such a valiant ignorance.