Cre. At your Pleasure, Pan. Here, here, here's an excellent Place, 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. Cre. Speak not so loud. 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 fee anon. Cre. Who's that? Antenor passes over the Stage. Pan. That's Antenor, he has a shrewd Wit, I can tell you, and he's a Man good enough, he's one o'th' soundest Judgment in Troy whosoever, and a proper Man of Person; when comes Troilus? I'll shew you Troilus anon; if he seee me, you shall see him nod at me. Cre. Will he give you the nod? Pan. You shall fee. Cre. If he do, the Rich shall have more. Hector paffes over. Pan. That's Hector, that, that, look you, that, there's a Fellow. Go thy way, Hector, there's a brave Man, Neice, O brave Hector! Look how he looks? there's a Countenance! is't not a brave Man ? Cre. O brave Man! Pan. Is a not? It does a Man's Heart good, look you what hacks are on his Helmet, look you yonder, do you see? Look you there? There's no jesting; laying on, tak't off who will, as they say; there be hacks. Cre. Be those with Swords? Paris passes over. Pan. Swords, any thing, he cares not, and the Devil come to him, it's all one; by Godslid it does ones Heart good. Yonder comes Paris, yonder comes Paris: Look ye yonder, Neice, is't not a gallant Man too, is't not? Why, this is brave now: Who said he came home hurt to Day? He's not hurt ; why, this will do Helen's Heart good now, ha? Would I could fee Troilus now, you shall see Troilus anon. Cre. Who's that? Helenus Helenus passes over. Pan. That's Helenus. I marvel where Troilus is, that's He\ lenus I think he went not forth to Day; that's Helenus. Cre. Can Helenus fight, Uncle ? Pan Helenus, no Yes, he'll fight indifferent well-I marvel were Troilus is; hark, do you not hear the People cry Troilus? Helenus is a Prieft. Cre. What sneaking Fellow comes yonder? Pan. Where! Yonder? That's Deiphobus. 'Tis Troilus! There's a Man, Neice---hem-brave Troilus; the Prince of Chivalry. Cre. Peace, for shame, peace. Pan. Mark him, note him: O brave Troilus: Look well upon him, Neice, look you how his Sword is bloodied, and his Helm more back'd then 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; had I a Sifter 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 Mony to boot. Enter common Soldiers. Cre. Here come more. Pan. Affes, Fools, Dolts, Chaff and Bran, Chaff and Bran; Porridge after Meat. I could live and dye ith' 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. Cre. There is among the Greeks Achilles, a better Man than Troilus. Pan. Achilles? a Dray-man, 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, Gen. tleness, Virtue, Youth, Liberality, and so forth, the Spice and Salt that seasons a Man? Cre. Ay, a minc'd Man, and then to be bak'd with no date in the Pye, for then the Man's date is out. Pan. Pan. You are such another Woman, one knows not at what ward you lye. : Cre. Upon my Back, to defend my Belly; upon my Wit, to defend my Wiles; upon my Secrefie, to defend mine Honesty, my Mask to defend my Beauty, and you to defend all these; and at all these Wards I lye at a thousand Watches. Pan. Say one of your Watches. Cre, 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 is past watching. Enter Boy. Pan. You are such another. Boy. Sir, my Lord would instantly speak with you. Boy. At your own House. Pan. Good Boy, tell him I come, 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 Pan. Words, Vows, Gifts, Tears, and Loves full Sacrifice, He offers in another's Enterprize: But more in Troilus thousand fold I fee, Then in the Glass of Pandar's praise may be. [Exit. SCENE SCENE II. Agamemnon's Tent in the Gre cian Camp. Trumpets. Enter Agamemnon, Nestor, Ulysses, Diomedes, Menelaus, with others. Agam. Princes; What Grief hath set the Jaundise on your Cheeks? Neft. With due observance of thy godly Seats Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply In the reproof of Chance, Lies the true proof of Men: The Sea being smooth, But let the Ruffian Boreas once enrage For, in her ray and brightness, The Herd hath more annoyance by the Brize And Flies fled under shade, why then The thing of Courage, As rowz'd with rage, with rage doth sympathize, Retires to chiding Fortune. Ulys. Agamemnon, Thou great Commander, Nerve and Bone of Greece, The which, most Mighty, for thy Place and Merit, [To Aga. Should with a bond of Air, strong as the Axle-tree (Thou Great and Wife) to hear Ulysses speak. Aga. Speak, Prince of Ithaca: and be't of less expect, That matter needless, of importless burthen VOL. IV. U Divide |