21712047Paris. See ho? who is that there?

21722048Deiph. It is the Lord AEneas.

21732049AEne. Is the Prince there in person?

21742050Had I so good occasion to lye long

21752051As your prince Paris, nothing but heauenly businesse,

21762052Should rob my bed mate of my company.

21772053Dio. That's my minde too? good morrow Lord AEneas.

21792054Paris. A valiant Greeke AEneas take his hand.

21802055Witnesse the processe of your speech: wherein

21812056You told how Dyomed a whole weeke by daies,

21822057Did haunt you in the field.

21832058AEne. Health to you valiant sir,

21842059During all question of the gentle truce:

21852060But when I meete you arm'd, as black defiance,

21862061As heart can thinke or courage execute.

21872062Diom. The one and other Diomed embraces,

21882063Our blouds are now in calme, and so long helth:

21892064Lul'd when contention, and occasion meete,

21902065By Ioue ile play the hunter for thy life,

21912066With all my force, pursuite, and pollicy.

21922067AEne. And thou shalt hunt a Lyon that will flie,

21932068With his face back-ward, in humane gentlenesse:

21942069Welcome to Troy, now by Anchises life,

21952070Welcome indeed: by Uenus hand I swere:

21962071No man aliue can loue in such a sort,

21972072The thing he meanes to kill, more excellently.

21982073Diom. We simpathize. Ioue let AEneas liue

21992074(If to my sword his fate be not the glory)

22002075A thousand compleate courses of the Sunne,

22012076But in mine emulous honor let him die:

22022077With euery ioynt a wound and that to morrow------

22032078AEne. We know each other well?

22042079Diom. We do and long to know each other worse.

22052080Par. This is the most despightfull gentle greeting,

22062081The noblest hatefull loue that ere I heard of, what businesse

22072082Lord so earely?

22082083AEne. I was sent for to the King? but why I know not.

22092084Par. His purpose meetes you? twas to bring this Greeke,

22102085To Calcho's house, and there to render him:

22112086For the enfreed Anthenor the faire Cressid,

22122087Lets haue your company, or if you please,

22132088Hast there before vs. I constantly beleeue,

22142089(Or rather call my thought a certaine knowledge)

22152090My brother Troylus lodges there to night,

22162091Rouse him and giue him note of our approch,

22172092With the whole quality wherefore:

22182093I feare we shall be much vnwelcome.

22192094AEneas. That I assure you: Troylus had rather Troy were

22202095borne to Greece, then Cresseid borne from Troy.

22222096Paris. There is no helpe.

22232097The bitter disposition of the time will haue it so:

22242098On Lord, weele follow you.

22252099AEneas. Good morrow all.

22262100Paris. And tell me noble Diomed, faith tell me true,

22272101Euen in soule of sound good fellowship,

22282102Who in your thoughts, deserues faire Helen best,

22292103My selfe, or Menelaus.

22302104Diom. Both alike.

22312105Hee merits well to haue her that doth seeke her,

22322106Not making any scruple of her soyle,

22332107With such a hell of paine, and world of charge.

22342108And you as well to keepe her, that defend her,

22352109Not pallating the taste of her dishonour

22362110With such a costly losse of wealth and friends,

22372111He like a puling Cuckold would drinke vp,

22382112The lees and dregs of a flat tamed peece:

22392113You like a letcher out of whorish loynes,

22402114Are pleasd to breed out your inheritors,

22412115Both merits poyzd, each weighs nor lesse nor more,

22422116But he as he, the heauier for a whore.

22432117Paris. You are too bitter to your country-woman

22442118Diom. Shees bitter to her country, heare me Paris,

22452119For euery falfe drop in her bawdy veines,

22462120A Grecians life hath sunke: for euery scruple

22472121Of her contaminated carrion waight,

22482122A Troyan hath beene slaine. Since she could speake,

22492123Shee hath not giuen so many good words breath,

22502124As for her Greekes and Troyans suffred death.

22512125Paris. Faire Diomed you do as chapmen do,

22522126Dispraise the thing that they desire to buy,

22532127But we in silence hold this vertue well,

22542128Weele not commend, what wee intend to sell. Heere lyes

22552129our way. Exeunt.