Helenus paffes over.

Pan. That's Helenus. I marvel where Troilus is: that's Helenus-I think he went not forth to-day; that's Helenus, Cre. Can Helenus fight, uncle?

Pan. Helenus? no- -yes, he'll fight indifferent well I marvel where Troilus is: hark, do you not hear the people cry Troilus? Helenus is a priest.

Cre. What fneaking fellow comes yonder ?

Troilus paffes over.

Pan. Where! yonder? that's Deiphobus. 'Tis Troilus! there's a man, neice → hem - brave Troilus! the prince of chivalry.

Cre. Peace, for fhame, peace.

Pan. Mark him, note him: O brave Troilus! look well upon him, neice, look you how his fword is bloodied, and his helm more hack'd than Hector's, and how he looks, and how he goes! O admirable youth! he ne'er faw three and twenty. Go thy way, Troilus, go thy way; had I a fifter were a Grace, and a daughter a Goddess, he should take his choice. O admirable man! Paris? Paris is dirt to him, and I warrant Helen to change would give money to boot.

Enter common Soldiers.

Cre. Here come more.

Pan. Affes, fools, dolts, chaff and bran, chaff and bran; porridge after meat. I could live and dye i'th' eyes of Troilus. Ne'er look, ne'er look; the eagles are gone; crows and daws, crows and daws. I had rather be fuch a man as Troilus, than Agamemnon and all Greece.

Cre. There is among the Greeks Achilles, a better man than Troilus.

Pan. Achilles? a dray-man, a porter, a very camel.
Cre. Well, well.

Pan. Well, well-why, have you any difcretion? have you any eyes? do you know what a man is? is not birth, beauty, good fhape, difcourfe, manhood, learning, gentlenefs, virtue, youth, liberality, and fo forth, the fpice and "falt that feafons a man?

Cre. Ay, a minc'd man, and then to be bak'd with no date in the pye, for then the man's date is out,

Pan,

Pan. You are fuch another woman, one knows not at what ward you lye.

Cre. Upon my back, to defend my belly; upon my wit, to defend my wiles; upon my fecrefie, to defend mine ho nefty; my mask to defend my beauty, and you to defend all thefe at all thefe wards I lye, and at a thousand watches.

Pan. Say one of your watches.

Cre. Nay, I'll watch you for that, and that's one of the chiefeft of them too; if I cannot ward what I would not have hit, I can watch you for telling how I took the blow, unless it fwell paft hiding, and then it is past watching. Pan. You are fuch another!

Enter Boy.

Boy. Sir, my Lord would inftantly speak with you.
Pan. Where?

Boy. At your own house, there he unarms him.

Pan. Good boy, tell him I come; I doubt he be hurt. Fare ye well, good neice.

Cre. Adieu, uncle.

Pan. I'll be with you, neice, by and by.

Cre. To bring, uncle

Pan. Ay, a token from Troilus.

Cre. By the fame token, you are a bawd.

[Exit Pane

Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full facrifice,

He offers in another's enterprize:

But more in Troilus thousand-fold I fee,

Than in the glafs of Pandar's praise may be.
Yet hold I off, Women are angels wooing,
Things won are done, the foul's joy lyes in doing:
That She belov'd knows nought that knows not this;
Men prize the thing ungain'd, more than it is.
That She was never yet, that ever knew
Love got, fo fweet, as when defire did fue:
Atchievement is, command; ungain'd, beseech,
Therefore this maxim out of love I teach;

That though my heart's content firm love doth bear,
Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.

By Content here is meant Capacity,

VOL, VIIL

[Exile

SCENE

SCENE V.

Agamemnon's Tent in the Grecian Camp.

Trumpets. Enter Agamemnon, Neftor, Ulyffes, Diomedes Menelaus, with others.

Aga. Princes,

What grief hath fet the jaundice on your cheeks?
The ample propofition that hope makes

In all defigns begun on earth below,

Fails in the promis'd largenefs; checks and difafters
Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd:
As knots by the conflux of meeting fap
Infect the found pine, and divert his grain
Tortive and errant from his course of growth,
Nor, Princes, is it matter new to us,
That we come fhort of our fuppofe fo far,
That after fev'n years fiege, yet Troy walls ftand;
Sith every action, that hath gone before,
Whereof we have record, tryal did draw
Bias and thwart; not answering the aim,
And that unbodied figure of the thought

That gave't furmifed fhape. Why then, you Princes,
Do
you with cheeks abafh'd behold our works,

And think them shame, which are, indeed, nought elfe
But the protractive tryals of great Jove,

To find perfiftive conftancy in men?

The fineness of which metal is not found

In fortune's love; for there, the bold and coward,
The wife and fool, the artift and unread,
The hard and foft, feem all affin'd, and kin;
But in the wind and tempeft of her frown,
Distinction with a broad and powerful fan
Puffing at all, winnows the light away;
And what hath mafs or matter, by it felf
Lyes rich in virtue, and unmingled.

Neft. With due obfervance of thy godlike feat,
Great Agamemnon, Neftor fhall apply

Thy lateft words. In the reproof of chance

Lyes the true proof of men: the fea being smooth,
How many fhallow bauble boats dare fail

Upon her patient breast, making their way

With thofe of nobler bulk!

But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage

The gentle Thetis, and anon, behold,

The strong-ribb'd bark thro' liquid mountains cuts,
Bounding between the two moist elements,

Like Perfeus' horfe: Where's then the fawcy boat,
Whofe weak untimber'd fides but even now
Co-rival'd Greatnefs? or to harbour fled,
Or made a toast for Neptune. Even fo
Doth valour's fhew and valour's worth divide
In ftorms of fortune. For in ber ray and brightness
The herd hath more annoyance by the brize
Than by the tyger: but when splitting winds
Make flexible the knees of knotted oaks,
And flies get under fhade; the thing of courage,
As rowz'd with rage, with rage doth sympathize,
And with an accent tun'd in felf-fame key
Replies to chiding fortune. *

Ulyf. Agamemnon,

Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece,
Heart of our numbers, foul, and only fpirit,
In whom the tempers and the minds of all
Should be fhut up: hear what Ulyffes fpeaks.
Befides th' applause and approbation

The which, moft mighty for thy place and fway,

[To Agamemnon. And thou, moft rev'rend for thy ftretcht-out life, [ToNeftor." I give to both your fpeeches, which were fuch

As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece

Should hold up high in brafs; and fuch again
As venerable Neftor (hatch'd in filver)
Should with a bond of air, ftrong as the axle-tree
On which heav'n rides, knit all the Grecian ears
To his experienc'd tongue : yet let it please both
(Though great and wife) to hear Ulyffes fpeak.
Aga. Speak, Prince of Ithaca: we lefs expect
That matter needlefs, of importless burthen,

It is faid of the Tyger, that in forms and high winds he rages and roars moft furiously.

02

Divide

Divide thy lips; than we are confident,
When rank Therfites opes his maftiff jaws,
We fhall hear mufick, wit, and oracle.

Ulyf Troy, yet upon her bafis, had been down,
And the great Hector's fword had lack'd a master,
But for thefe inftances.

The fpecialty of rule hath been neglected;
And look how many Grecian tents do fland
Upon this plain, fo many hollow factions.
When that the general is not like the hive,
To which the foragers fhall all repair,
What honey is expected? degree being vizarded,
Th' unworthieft fhews as fairly in the mask.
The heav'ns themselves, the planets, and this center,
Obferve degree, priority and place,

Infifture, courfe, proportion, feason, form,
Office and cuftom, in all line of order:
And therefore is the glorious planet Sol
In noble eminence enthron'd and fpher'd
Amidft the reft, whofe med'cinable eye
Corrects the ill afpects of planets evil,
And pofts like the commandment of a king,
Sans check, to good and bad. But when the planets
In evil mixture to diforder wander,

What plagues, and what portents, what mutiny!
What raging of the fea! fhaking of earth!
Commotion in the winds! frights, changes, horrors,
Divert and crack, rend and deracinate

The unity and married calm of states

Quite from their fxure! when degree is fhaken,
(Which is the ladder to all high defigns)

Then enterprize is fick. How could communities,
Degrees in fchools, and brotherhoods in cities,
Peaceful commerce from dividable fhores,
The primogenitore, and due of birth,
Prerogative of age, crowns, fcepters, lawrels,
But by degree, ftand in authentick place?
Take but degree away, untune that firing,
And hark what difcord follows; each thing meets
In meer oppugnancy. The bounded waters

Would