mine honefty; my mask, to defend my beauty; and you, to defend all these and at all these wards I lie, at a thoufand 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 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.

Cre. Adieu, uncle.

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

Cre. To bring, uncle,

Pan. Ay, a token from Troilus.

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

[Exit Pandarus.

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 glass of Pandar's praise may be ;

Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing;
Things won are done, joy's foul lies in the doing:
That the belov'd knows nought, that knows not this,-
Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is:

1 That she was never yet, that ever knew

Love got

fo fweet, as when defire did fue:

3 That fhe]-That woman.

Therefore

Therefore this maxim out of love I teach,

* Atchievement is, command; ungain'd, befeech: Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear, Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.

SCENE III.

The Grecian Camp.

[Exeunt.

Trumpets. Enter Agamemnon, Neftor, Ulyffes, Menelauš, with others.

Agam. 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 largeness checks and disasters
Grow in the veins of actions higheft rear'd;

As knots, by the conflux of meeting fap,
Infect the found pine, and divert his grain

- Tortive and errant from his courfe of growth.
Nor, princes, is it matter new to us,

That we come fhort of our suppose so far,

That, after seven years' fiege, yet Troy walls ftand;
Sith every action that hath gone before,
Whereof we have record, trial did draw
Bias and thwart, not anfwering the aim,
And that unbodied figure of the thought

That gav't furmised shape. Why then, you princes,
Do you with cheeks abafh'd behold our works;
And think them fhames, which are, indeed, nought elfe
But the protractive trials of great Jove,

Atchievement is,]-The language after conqueft is peremptory; of courtship, fubmiffive.

I my beart's content firm love doth bear,]-my bofom is full fraught with love. Tortive]-winding, twisted.

To find perfiftive conftancy in men?

The fineness of which metal is not found

In fortune's love: for then, the bold and coward,
The wife and fool, the artift and unread,
The hard and soft, seem all affin'd and kin:
But, in the wind and tempeft of her frown,
Diftinction, with a broad and powerful fan,
Puffing at all, winnows the light away;
And what hath mass, or matter, by itself
Lies, rich in virtue, and unmingled.

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

Thy latest words. In the reproof of chance
Lies the true proof of men: The fea being smooth,
How many fhallow bauble boats dare fail
Upon her patient breaft, 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 through liquid mountains cut,
Bounding between the two moist elements,
Like Perfeus' horfe: Where's then the faucy boat,
Whose weak untimber'd fides but even now
Co-rival'd greatnefs? either to harbour fled,
Or made a toast for Neptune. Even fo
Doth valour's fhew, and valour's worth, divide
In storms of fortune: For, in her 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,

due obfervance of thy godlike feat,]-deference to thy fuperior ftation. reproof-rebuffs.

the brize,]-the gad-fly.

the two moift elements,]-the fea and air.

"The brize upon her, like a cow in June."
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, A&t III. S. 8. Scar.

And

And flies flee under fhade, Why, then, the thing of

courage,

As rowz'd with rage, with rage doth fympathize,

And with an accent tun'd in self-fame key, 'Returns to chiding fortune.

Uly. Agamemnon,

Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece,
Heart of our numbers, foul and only spirit,

In whom the tempers and the minds of all
Should be shut up,-hear what Ulyffes fpeaks.
Befides the applause and approbation

The which,-moft mighty for thy place and fway,

[To Agamemnon.

And thou most reverend for thy ftretcht-out life,

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[To Neftor. I give to both your speeches, 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 heaven rides) knit all the Greekish ears
To his experienc'd tongue,—yet let it please both,―
*Thou great,—and wife,-to hear Ulysses speak.

W

Agam, Speak, prince of Ithaca; " and be't of less expect

That matter needlefs, of importless burden,

the thing of courage,]-the fierce tyger roars most in storms. • Returns]-its own notes.

1 which were fuch, &c.]—As that Agamemnon's ought to be engraven on a table of brafs, fupported on the one fide by the Prince, and on the other by Greece, in token of that perfect harmony which fubfifts between them; and for Neftor's a filver medal fhould be voted, exhibiting him in the attitude of haranguing his countrymen, and rivetting their attention by his eloquence, that powerful bond of air. "Though great and wife. and we lefs.

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

Uly. Troy, yet upon her basis, had been down,
And the great Hector's fword had lack'd a master,
But for these instances.

* The specialty of rule hath been neglected;
And, look, how many Grecian tents do stand
Upon this plain, fo many hollow factions.
y When that the general is not like the hive,
To whom the foragers fhall all repair,

What honey is expected? Degree being vizarded,
The unworthieft fhews as fairly in the mask.

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The heavens themfelves, the planets, and this center,
Obferve degree, priority, and place,

Infifture, course, proportion, feafon, form,
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; whofe med'cinable eye
Corrects the ill afpects of planets evil,
And pofts, like the commandment of a

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king,

Sans check, to good and bad: But, when the planets,

* In evil mixture, to disorder wander,

What plagues, and what portents? what mutiny?
What raging of the fea? fhaking of earth?
Commotion in the winds? frights, changes, horror,

The specialty of rule]-The peculiar rights of fovereignty.

Y When that the general, &c.]-When an army is not under a control fimilar to that of a hive of bees, and the commander's tent ceases to be the feat of public refort, for the benefit of the whole body. Degree being vizarded,]-Diftinction of rank being deftroyed. 2 tbis center,]-the earth, then thought the center of the univerfal fystem. Infiflure,]-tation. ← In evil mixture,]-Forming unfavourable conjunctions.