plexion. I had as lieve, Helen's golden tongue Cres. Then she's a merry Greek, indeed. Pan. Nay, I am sure she does. She came to him the other day into the compass'd window', and, you know, he has not past three or four hairs on his chin. 5 Cres. Indeed, a tapster's arithmetic may soon 10 bring his particulars therein to a total. Pan. Why, he is very young: and yet will he, within three pound, lift as much as his brother Hector, Cres. Is he so young a man, and so old a lifter2? 15 Pan. But, to prove to you that Helen loves him;-she came, and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin, Cres. Juno have mercy!-How came it cloven? Pan. Why, you know, 'tis dimpled: I think, 20 his smiling becomes him better than any man in all Phrygia. Cres. O, he smiles valiantly. Pan. Does he not? Cres. O, yes; an 'twere a cloud in autumn. Pan. Why, go to then:-But, to prove to you that Helen loves Troilus, Cres. Troilus will stand to the proof, if you'll prove it so. 25 Pan. Troilus? why he esteems her no more 30 than I esteem an addle egg. Cres. If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' the shell. Pan. I cannot choose but laugh, to think how she tickled his chin;-Indeed, he has a marvellous white hand, I must needs confess. Cres. Without the rack. Pan. And she takes upon her to spy a white hair on his chin. Cres. Alas, poor chin! many a wart is richer. Pan. And Cassandra laugh'd. Cres. But there was more temperate fire under the pot of her eyes;-Did her eyes run o'er too? Pan. And Hector laugh'd. Cres, At what was all this laughing? 35 40 One and fifty hairs, quoth he, and one white. That white hair is my father, and all the rest are his sons. Jupiter! quoth she, which of these hairs is Faris, my husband? The forked one, quoth he; pluck it out, and give it him. But, there was such laugh ing! and Helen so blush'd, and Paris so chaf'd, and all the rest so laugh'd, that it pass'd. Cres. So let it now; for it has been a great while going by. Pan. Well, cousin, I told you a thing yester day; think on 't. Cres. So I do, Pan. I'll be sworn, 'tis true; he will weep you, an 'twere a man born in April. [Sound a retreat, Cres. And I'll spring up in his tears, an 'twere a nettle against May. Pan. Hark, they are coming from the field; Shall we stand up here, and see them, as they pass toward Ilium? good niece, do; sweet niece Cres Cres. At your pleasure. [sida. Pan. Here, here, here's an excellent pace; here we may see most bravely: I'll tell you them all by their names, as they pass by; but mark Troilus above the rest. Æneas passes over the stage. Pan. That's Æneas; Is not that a brave man? he's one of the flowers of Troy, I can tell you; But mark Troilus; you shall see anon. Cres. Who's that? Antenor passes over. Pan. That's Antenor; he has a shrewd wit, I can tell you; and he's a man good enough: he's one o' the soundest judgement in Troy, whoso ever; and a proper man of person:When comes Troilus-I'll shew you Troilus anon; if The see me, you shall see him nod at me. Cres. Will he give you the nod? Pan. You shall see. Cres. If he do, the rich shall have more'. Pan. That's Hector, that, that, look you, that! Pan. Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied 50 on Troilus' chin. Cres. An't had been a green hair, I should have laugh'd too. Pan. They laugh'd not so much at the hair, as at his pretty answer. Cres. What was his answer? 551 Pan. Swords? any thing, he cares not: an the devil come to him, it's all one: By god's lid, it does one's heart good!-Yonder comes Paris, yonder comes Paris: look ye yonder, niece! Is 't not a gallant man too, is't not?-Why, this is Pan. That's true; make no question of that./60lbrave now, Who said, he came home hurt to Pan. Quoth she, Here's but one and fifty hairs on your chin, and one of them is white. Čres. This is her question. 'The compass'd window is the same as the bow-window, still call a person who plunders shops, a shop-lifter. ? The word lifter means a thief.-We The allusion here is to the word noddy, which, as now, did in our author's time, and long before, signify a silly fellow; and may, by its etymology, signify likewise full of nods,-Cressid means, that a poddy shall have more nods. day? Pan. Helenus? no;-yes, he'll fight indifferent 10 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! 15 Pan. Mark him; note him:-O brave Troi-20 lus!-look well upon him, niece; look you, how his sword is bloody'd, and his helm more hack'd than Hector's! And how he looks, and how he goes! O admirable youth! he ne'er saw three and twenty. Go thy way, Troilus, go thy way; 25 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 an eye to boot. Enter Soldiers, &c. Cres. Here come more. what I would not have hit, I can watch you telling how I took the blow; unless it swell hiding, and then it is past watching. Pan. You are such another! Enter Troilus' Boy. Boy. Sir, mylord would instantlyspeakwith Boy. At your own house; there he unarms h Pan. I'll be with you, niece, by-and-by. Pan. Ay, a token from Troilus. 2 Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is That she was never yet, that ever knew Love got so sweet, as when desire did sue: Therefore this maxim out of love I teach,Atchievement is, command; ungain'd, besee 30 Then though my heart's content fr love d bear, 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 35 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 dray-man, a porter, a very camel. Cres. Well, well. Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear. [Exe Trumpets. 40 Pan. Well, well?-Why, have you any discretion? have you any eyes? Do you know what a 45 man is? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man? Cres. Ay, a minc'd man: and then to be bak'd 50 with no date in the pye,-for then the man's date is out. Pan. You are such a woman! one knows not] at what ward you lie. Cres. Upon my back, to defend my belly; upon 55 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 SCENE III. The Grecian Camp. Agam. Princes, [ast What grief hath set the jaundice on your chee 60 But the protractive trials of great Jove, To account for the introduction of this quikk. In fortune's love: för then, the bold and coward, Nest. With due observance of thy godlike seat, Ulyss. Troy, yet upon her basis, had been down, And the great Hector's sword had lack'd a masBut for these instances. [ter, 4 The specialty of rule hath been neglected; 5 And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions. When that the general is not like the hive, To whom the foragers shall all repair, What honey is expected? Degree being vizarded, 10 The unworthiest shews as fairly in the mask. The heavens themselves, the planets, and this center', Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, 15 Office, and custom, in all line of order: And therefore is the glorious planet, Sol, In noble eminence enthron'd and spher'd Amidst the other; whose med'cinable eye Corrects the ill aspects of planets evil, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad: But, when the planets, But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage 25 In evil mixture, to disorder wander, The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture? O,when degree is shak'd, 30 Which is the ladder to all high designs, Ulyss. Agamemnon,- The which,inost mighty for thy place and 40 sway, And thou most reverend for thy stretcht-out life,- I give to both your speeches,--which were such, That matter needless, of importless burden, 45 50 The enterprize is sick! How could communities, And the rude son should strike his father dead: And appetite, an universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, And, last, eat up himself. Great Agamemnon, 55 And this neglection of degree it is, That by a pace goes backward', with a purpose It hath to climb: The general's disdain'd The brize is the gad or horse-fly. 2 It is said of the tiger, that in storms and high winds he rages and roars most furiously. 3 Hatch'd in silver, may mean, whose white hair and beard make him look like a figure engraved on silver. 4i. e. the particular rights of supreme authority. earth; which, according to the Ptolemaic system, then in vogue, is the center of the solar system. ⚫i. e. corporations, companies, confraternities. That goes backward step by step. * i. e. the By By him one step below: he, by the next; Agam. The nature of the sickness found, Ulysses, Ulyss. The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns And with ridiculous and awkward action In such a rein', in full as proud a place 5(A slave, whose gall coins slanders like a mint) Of their observant toil, the enemies' weight,- They call this-bed-work, mappery, closet war? Nest. Let this be granted, and Achilles' horse He pageants us. Sometime, great Agamemnon, As he, being 'drest to some oration.' 'Tis Nestor right! Now play him me, Patroclus, Nest. And in the imitation of these twain Enter Æneas. Agam. What would you 'fore our tent? [you? Ane. May one, that is a herald, and a prince, Agam. With surety stronger than Achilles' arm 35 'Fore all the Greekish heads, which with one voice Call Agamemnon head and general. 40 Ene. Fair leave, and large security. How may ne. I ask, that I might waken reverence, 45 Which is that god in office, guiding men? Ane. Courtiers as free, as debonair, unarm’d, 60 An emulation not vigorous and active, but malignant and sluggish. 2 Topless means supreme, sovereign. Read o'er-wrested, i. e. cver-charged. All our good of grace exact, means our excelience irreprehens.ble. That is, holds up his head as haughtily.We still say of a girl, she bridles. A rank weed is a high word. Agam. Agam. Sir, you of Troy, call you yourself Eneas? Agam. Speak frankly as the wind; Ene. Trumpet, blow loud, Send thy brass voice through all these lazy tents; Agam. This shall be told our lovers,lord Æneas; Nest. Tell him of Nestor, one that was a man As may be in the world: His youth in flood, sir. Agam. Fair lord Æneas, let me touch your hand; So shall each lord of Greece, from tent to tent; 10 And find the welcome of a noble foe. [Exeunt. Ulyss. Nestor, Nest. What says Ulysses? Ulyss. I have a young conception in my brain, 15 Be you my time to bring it to some shape. Nest. What is 't? Ulyss. This 'tis : Blunt wedges rive hard knots: The seeded pride 20 In rank Achilles, must or now be cropt, 25 Nest. Well, and how? Ulyss. This challenge that the gallant Hector However it is spread in general name, [sends, Relates in purpose only to Achilles. [stance, Nest. The purpose is perspicuous even as subWhose grossness little characters sum up ': And, in the publication, make no strain, 30 But that Achilles, were his brain as barren As banks of Libya,-though, Apollo knows, 'Tis dry enough,will with great speed of judgement, Ay, with celerity, find Hector's purpose Ulyss. And wake him to the answer, think you? else oppose, That can from Hector bring those honours off, For here the Trojans taste our dear'st repute 45 In this wild action: for the success, Of things to come at large. It is suppos'd, 'Substance is estate; the Confession for profession. 2 An armour for the arm,-avantbras. value of which is ascertained by the use of small characters, i. e. numerals. * i. e. make no difficulty, no doubt, when this duel comes to be proclaimed, but that Achilles, dull as he is, will discover the drift of it. : Small points compared with the volumes. |