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. CRES. What sneaking fellow comes yonder? TROILUS passes over. PAN. Where? yonder? that's Deiphobus: 'Tis Troilus! there's a man, niece!-Hem!-Brave Troilus! the prince of chivalry. CRES. Peace, for shame, peace! PAN. Mark him; note him;—O brave Troilus!—look well upon him, niece; look you, how his sword is bloodied, and his helm more hacked than Hector's: And how he looks, and how he goes!-O admirable youth! he ne'er saw three-andtwenty. Go thy way, Troilus, go thy way; had I a sister were a grace, or 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. Forces pass over the stage. CRES. Here come more. PAN. Asses, fools, dolts! chaff and bran, chaff and bran! porridge after meat! I could live and die i' the eyes of Troilus. Ne'er look, ne'er look; the eagles are gone; crows and daws, crows and daws! I had rather be such a man as Troilus, than Agamemnon and all Greece. CRES. There is among the Greeks, Achilles; a better man than Troilus. PAN. Achilles? a drayman, a porter, a very camel. PAN. Well, well?-Why, have you any discretion? have you any eyes? Do you know what a man is? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and so forth, the spice and salt that season a man? CRES. Ay, a minced man: and then to be baked with no date in the pie,-for then the man's date 's out. PAN. You are such another woman! one knows not at what ward you lie. CRES. Upon my back, to defend my belly; upon my wit, to defend my wiles; upon my secrecy, to defend mine honesty; my mask, to defend my beauty; and you, to defend all these: and at all these wards I lie, at a thousand watches. PAN. Say one of your watches. CRES. Nay, I'll watch you for that; and that's one of the chiefest 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 swell past hiding, and then it's past watching. PAN. You are such another! Enter TROILUS' Boy. Boy. Sir, my lord would instantly speak with you. Boy. At your own house; there he unarms him. I doubt, he be hurt.-Fare ye well, good niece. PAN. I'll be with you, niece, by and by. CRES. To bring, uncle,— PAN. Ay, a token from Troilus. CRES. By the same token—you are a bawd. [Exit Boy. [Exit PANDARUS. Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be; Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing: That she belov'd knows nought that knows not this,- That she was never yet that ever knew Love got so sweet, as when desire did sue: Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear, [Exit. SCENE III.-The Grecian Camp. Before Agamemnon's Tent. Senet. Enter AGAMEMNON, NESTOR, ULYSSES, MENELAUS, and others. AGAM. Princes, What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks? In all designs begun on earth below, Fails in the promis'd largeness: checks and disasters As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, That we come short of our suppose so far, That, after seven years' siege, yet Troy walls stand; That gave 't surmised shape. Why then, you princes, And think them shames, which are, indeed, nought else But the protractive trials of great Jove, To find persistive constancy in men? The fineness of which metal is not found In fortune's love: for then, the bold and coward, The hard and soft, seem all affin'd and kin: NEST. With due observance of thy godlike seat, Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply Thy latest words. In the reproof of chance Lies the true proof of men: the sea being smooth, Upon her patient breast, making their way But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage The gentle Thetis, and, anon, behold The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut, Like Perseus' horse: Where's then the saucy boat, Than by the tiger; but when the splitting wind Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks, And flies fled under shade, why, then, the thing of courage, As rous'd with rage, with rage doth sympathise, And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key, Returns to chiding fortune. ULYSS. Agamemnon, Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece, In whom the tempers and the minds of all The which,-most mighty for thy place and sway,— [To AGAMEMNON. And thou most reverend for thy stretch'd-out life,— I give to both your speeches,-which were such [TO NESTOR. Should with a bond of air, strong as the axletree AGAM. Speak, prince of Ithaca; and be 't of less expect That matter needless, of importless burden, Divide thy lips, than we are confident, When rank Thersites opes his mastick jaws, ULYSS. Troy, yet upon his basis, had been down, And the great Hector's sword had lack'd a master, But for these instances. The specialty of rule hath been neglected: And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand What honey is expected? Degree being vizarded, The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, And posts, like the commandment of a king, What plagues, and what portents! what mutiny! The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture! O, when degree is shak'd, The enterprise is sick! How could communities, |