"The duration of the action of this play is so distinctly marked by Hector's challenge that, notwithstanding the discrepancies pointed out in Act II. sc. iii.* and Act III. sc. i.† and iii., ‡ it is impossible to assign to it more than four days, with an interval between the first and second. Day 1. Act I. sc. i. and ii.

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"The commanders 'rub the vein' of Ajax. Achilles declines to see them, but through Ulysses informs them that he 'will not to the field to-morrow.' At the end of the scene Ulysses remarks:

'To-morrow

We must with all our main of power stand fast.'

These two passages are somewhat ambiguous, for in fact only the single combat between Hector and Ajax is resolved on for the morrow."

"In this scene commences an extraordinary entanglement of the plot of the Play. It is quite clear that from its position it must represent a portion of the day on which Hector sends his challenge to the Greeks: a day on which there could be no encounters between the hostile forces, and which in fact is but one day of a long-continued truce; yet in this scene Pandarus asks Paris, 'Sweet lord, who's afield to-day?' Paris replies, Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and all the gallantry of Troy.' Paris himself. it seems, nor Troilus, went not. Towards the end of the scene a retreat is sounded, and Paris says

'They 're come from field: let us to Priam's hall
To greet the warriors;'

and he begs Helen to come help unarm our Hector.'"

"The allusions to the combat which is to come off to-morrow between Hector and Ajax are numerous in this scene, so that we are clearly still in the day on which Hector sent his challenge. But the entanglement of the plot which we noticed in Act III. sc. i. becomes here still more involved. Calchas says

'You have a Trojan prisoner, called Antenor,
Yesterday took ;'

and he requests that Antenor may be exchanged for his daughter Cressida. The commanders assent, and Diomedes is commissioned to effect the exchange. From this it appears that Antenor, who goes out to fight on this very day (see Act III. sc. i.)-when there is no fighting-was nevertheless taken prisoner the day before, during the longcontinued truce."

Ajax. O thou damned cur! I shall- (ii. 1. 84).

distinct (accent), 198.

dividable, 171.

double-henned sparrow, 214.

dragon wing of night, 215.
draught (privy), 207.
draw together, 213.
dressed, 172.

edge of all extremity, 202.
eld, 181.

elephant (joints of), 184.
embracement, 203.
embrasures, 198.
emulation (envy), 183.
emulous (envious), 183, 185.
encounterers, 201.
engine, 184.
enginer, 183.

entreat (invite), 205.
entreat her fair, 200.
errant, 168.

esperance, 208.

evil mixture, 171.
exact (accent), 204.
exasperate (form), 206.
exclaim (noun), 212.
execute your arms, 214.
expect (noun), 170.
exposure, 173.
expressure, 194.

eyes o'ergalled, 211.

force (stuff), 185, 206.
forked (horned), 167.
forthright, 193.

fraction (discord), 183.
fractions of faith, 209.
fragment, 205.
fraughtage, 162.
frayed with, 188.
free (=noble), 203.
frush, 214.
fulfilling, 162.
full of quality, 200.
fusty, 172.

gaging, 206.

Galathe, 213.
gallantry, 187.
galled, 216.

gear, 163, 190.
Genius, 198.

gilt (=golden), 194.
glozed, 182.
God Achilles, 173.
God-a-mercy, 212.
God's lid, 167.
good now, 187.
gorget, 173.
grace (title), 186.
great morning, 196.
Greek, merry, 166, 198.

hale (verb), 201.
hardiment, 201.
harnessed light, 165.
hatched in silver, 169.
hateful (= malignant), 196.
having (noun), 191.
heart of very heart, 204.
heaving spleens, 182.
herring without a roe, 207.
hey-day (spelling), 207.
his (its), 173, 176, 180.
honesty (chastity), 167.
honey (adjective), 207.
honey-sweet lord, 186.
honour and lordship, 186.
horns, 201.

how chance, 187.
humane (accent), 195.
humorous, 184.
hung, 204.

hurricano, 209.
hurt by being just, 210.
husbandry (thrift), 165.
hyperboles (pronunciation),

172.

Hyperion, 185.

I'll tell thee, 201.
idle (play upon), 166.
idle (useless), 206.
ignomy, 216.
Ilion, 181.

Ilium, 165.

immures (noun), 162.
impair (adjective), 202.
imperious, 204.
imposition, 189.
imposthume, 206.
impressure, 203.
imputation, 176.
in fits (play upon), 186.
in flood, 175.

in most accepted pain, 191.
in the full, 205.
includes itself in, 172.
index, 176.

indistinguishable, 206.
infect (=infected), 173.
ingratitudes, 192.
injurious, 198.
inseparate, 208.
insisture, 171.

instance (=proof), 209.
into (=unto), 191.

jade's tricks, 179.

Jove's accord, 173.

keep (=dwell), 205.

keep the weather of, 211.
keeps place with thought,
194.

kill (those pretty eyes),

196.

kingdom'd Achilles, 185.
kiss the mistress, 188.

12: 186.

labouring for destiny, 204.
lavolt, 200.

lazars, 183, 207.
learn (=teach), 179.
leave (= cease), 207.
let blood, 185.
lifter (play upon), 166.
light (adverb), 165.
like as, 165.

likes (pleases), 208.
limekilns i' the palm, 206.
livers pale, 180.
look upon, 214.
lover, 194.
lunes, 184.
lustihood, 180.

luxurious (=lustful), 212.
luxury (=lust), 207.

maculation, 199.
maiden battle, 202.
mail, 192.

main (=might), 186.
make a recordation to my
soul, 208.

make my match to live, 201.
mappery, 173.