for telling how I took the blow; unless it swell past hiding, and then it is past watching. Pan. You are such another! Enter Troilus' Boy. Boy. Sir, my lord would instantly speak with you. Pan. Where? Boy. At your own house; there he unarms him. Pan. Good boy, tell him I come: [Exit Boy. I doubt he be hurt.-Fare ye well, good niece. Cres. Adieu, uncle. Pan. I'll be with you, niece, by and by. Pan. Ay, a token from Troilus. Cres. By the same token-you are a bawd.[Exit PANDARUS. Words, vows, griefs, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise: 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: Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the 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 so sweet, as when desire did sue: Therefore this maxim out of love I teach,Achievement is command; ungain'd, beseech: Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear, Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear. [Exit. SCENE III. The Grecian Camp. Before Agamemnon's Tent. Trumpets. Enter AGAMEMNON, NESTOR, ULYSSES, MENELAUS, and Others. Agam. Princes, What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks? Fails in the promis'd largeness; checks and disasters Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd: As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine, and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. Nor, princes, is it matter new to us, That we come short of our suppose so far, That, after seven years' siege, yet Troy walls stand; Sith every action that hath gone before, Do you with cheeks abash'd behold our works; And think them shames, which are, indeed, nought else But the protractive trials of great Jove, Nest. With due observance of thy godlike seat, How many shallow bauble boats dare sail But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut, Bounding between the two moist elements, Like Perseus' horse: Where's then the saucy boat, Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now Co-rival'd greatness? either to harbour fled, The herd hath more annoyance by the brize, As rous'd with rage, with rage doth sympathise, Ulyss. Agamemnon,Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece, Heart of our numbers, soul and only spirit, In whom the tempers and the minds of all Should be shut up,-hear what Ulysses speaks. Besides the applause and approbation, The which,-most mighty for thy place and sway,[To AGAMEMNON. And thou most reverend for thy stretch'd-out life,[TO NESTOR. I give to both your speeches,-which were such, As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece Should hold up high in brass; and such again, As venerable Nestor, hatch'd in silver, Should with a bond of air (strong as the axletree On which heaven rides) knit all the Greekish ears To his experienc'd tongue,-yet let it please both, Thou great and wise,-to hear Ulysses speak. Agam. Speak, prince of Ithaca; and be't of less expect That matter needless, of importless burden, 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 Hollow upon this plain, so many hollow factions. Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad: But when the planets, In evil mixture, to disorder wander, What plagues, and what portents? what mutiny? Divert and crack, rend and deracinate Quite from their fixture? O, when degree is shak'd, Which is the ladder of all high designs, The enterprise is sick! How could communities, In mere oppugnancy: The bounded waters And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or rather right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides), Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, Power into will, will into appetite; So doubly seconded with will and power, And, last, eat up himself. Great Agamemnon, And this neglection of degree it is, That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose And 'tis this fever that keeps Troy on foot, Agam. The nature of the sickness found, What is the remedy? Ulyss. The great Achilles,-whom opinion crowns The sinew and the forehand of our host,- Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent Breaks scurril jests; And with ridiculous and awkward action (Which, slanderer, he imitation calls) He pageants us. Sometime, great Agamemnon, Thy topless deputation he puts on; And like a strutting player,-whose conceit Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich To hear the wooden dialogue and sound 'Twixt his stretch'd footing and the scaffoldage, Such to-be-pitied and o'er-wrested seeming He acts thy greatness in: and when he speaks, 'Tis like a chime a mending; with terms unsquar'd, Which, from the tongue of roaring Typhon dropp'd, Would seem hyperboles. At this fusty stuff, |