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The Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon's tent.
[Sennet. Enter AGAMEMNON, NESTOR, ULYSSES, MENELAUS, and others]
AGAMEMNON
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Princes: \\
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What grief | hath set | the jaun|dice on | your
cheeks?
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The amp|le pro|posi|tion that / hope makes
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In all | designs,| begun | on earth | below
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Fails in the | promised | largeness:| checks and
di|sasters
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Grow in | the veins | of ac|tions high|est
reared.
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As knots | by the / conflux | of mee|ting sap,
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Infect | the sound | pine, and | divert | his
grain
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Tortive | and er|rant from | his course | of
growth.
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Nor prin|ces, is | it mat|ter new | to us,
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That we / come short | of our | suppose | so far,
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That aft|er seven | years'^siege,| yet Troy walls
stand,
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Sith eve|ry ac|tion that | hath gone | before,
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Whereof | we have | record,| trial | did draw
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Bias | and thwart,| not ans|wering | the aim:
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And that | unbo|died fig|ure of | the thought
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That gave | it surmised | shape. Why / then (you
| princes)
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Do you | with cheeks | abashed,| behold | our
works,
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And think | them shame,| which are |(indeed)|
nought else
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But the | protrac|tive tri|als of / great Jove,
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To find | persis|tive con|stancy | in men?
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The fine|ness of / which met|al is / not found
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In for|tune's love:| for then,| the bold | and
coward,
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The wise | and fool,| the ar|tist and | unread,
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The hard | and soft,| seem all | affined,| and
kin.
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But in | the wind | and temp|est of | her frown,
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Distinc|tion with | a broad | and power|ful fan,
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Puffing | at all,| winnows | the light | away;
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And what | hath mass,| or mat|ter by | itself,
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Lies^rich | in vir|tue, and | unming|led.
NESTOR
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With due | observ|ance of | thy god|ly seat,
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Great Agamem|non, Nes/tor shall | apply
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Thy lat|est words.| In the | reproof | of chance,
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Lies the | true proof of men:| the sea being
smooth,
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How many | shallow | bauble | boats dare sail
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Upon | her pa|tient breast,| making | their way
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With those | of nob|ler bulk? \\
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But let | the ruf|fian Bor/eas once | enrage
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The gent|le The|tis, and | anon | behold
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The strong-ribbed bark | through liq|uid
mount|ains cut,
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Bounding | between | the two moist el|ements
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Like* Per|seus' horse.| Where's^then | the sau|cy
boat,
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Whose weak | untim|bered sides | but ev|en now
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Co-riv|alled great|ness? Eith|er to har|bor fled,
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Or made | a toast | for Nep|tune. Even so,
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Doth val|or's show,| and val|or's worth | divide
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In storms | of for|tune*. \\
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For, in her | ray and | brightness,
(pickup)
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The herd | hath more | annoy|ance by | the breeze
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Than by | the ti|ger: but,| when the split|ting
wind
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Makes flex|ible | the knees | of knot|ted oaks,
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And flies fled und|er shade,| why | then ??
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The thing | of courage, (picked up)
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As roused | with rage,| with rage | doth
sym|pathize,
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And with an | accent^|tuned in | selfsame key,
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Retorts | to chi|ding for|tune*.
ULYSSES
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Aga|memnon: ??
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Thou great | command|er, nerve,| and bone | of
Greece,
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Heart of | our num|bers, soul,| and on|ly spirit,
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In whom | the temp|ers, and | the minds | of all
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Should be / shut up:| hear what | Ulys|ses
speaks,
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Besides | the ap/plause and | appro|bation
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The which | most^migh|ty for | thy place | and
sway,
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And thou | most reve/rend for thy | stretched-out
life
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I give | to both | your speech|es: which | were
such,
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As A|gamem|non and | the hand | of Greece
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Should hold | up high | in brass:| and such |
again
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As ve|nera|ble Nes|tor (hatched | in silver)
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Should with a | bond of air, strong | as the
ax|le-tree
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In which | the heavens | ride, knit^|all Greeks'
ears
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To his exper|ienced / tongue: yet | let it /
please both
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(Thou great,| and wise)| to hear | Ulys|ses
speak.
AGAMEMNON
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Speak prince of I|thaca,| and be it of less
expect: ????
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That mat|ter need|less of im|portless | burden
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Divide | thy lips:| then we | are con|fident
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When rank | Thersi|tes opes | his mas|tic jaws,
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We shall hear | music,| wit, and | oracle.
ULYSSES
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Troy^yet | upon | his bas|is had | been down,
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And the / great Hec|tor's sword | had lacked | a
mas||ter
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But | for these | instan|ces.
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The | special||ty of | rule hath | been
neg|lected;
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And look || how ma|ny Gre|cian tents | do stand
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Hollow u||pon this | plain, so | many | hollow | factions.
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When that | the gen|eral is / not like | the
hive,
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To whom | the for|agers | shall all | repair,
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What ho/ney is ex|pected?| Degree | being
vizarded, ????
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The unworth|iest shows | as fair|ly in | the
mask.
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The heavens | themselves,| the planets,| and this
| center,
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Observe | degree,| prio|rity,| and place,
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Insis|ture, course,| propor|tion, seas|on, form,
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Office, and | custom,| in all | line of | order:
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And there|fore is | the glo|rious plan|et Sol
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In nob|le em|inence,| enthroned | and sphered
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Amidst | the oth|er, whose | medi|cinable eye
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Corrects | the ill | aspects of plan|ets evil,
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And posts | like the | command|ment of | a king,
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Sans check, to good | and bad.| But when the |
planets
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In ev|il mix|ture to dis|order | wander,
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What plagues,| and what / portents,| what
mut|iny?
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What rag|ing of | the sea?| Shaking | of earth?
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Commo|tion in the / winds? Frights,| changes,|
horrors,
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Divert,| and crack,| rend and | dera|cinate
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The u|nity,| and mar|ried calm | of states
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Quite from | their fix|ure? O,| when degree | is
shaked,
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(Which^is | the lad|der to / all high | designs)
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Then ent|erprise | is sick.| How could
com|munities,
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Degrees | in schools | and broth|erhoods | in
ci||ties,
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Peace|ful com|merce from | divi|dable shores,
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The pri|moge|nitive,| and due | of birth,
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Prero|gative^of / age, crowns,| sceptres,|
laurels,
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(But by | degree)| stand in | authen|tic place?
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Take but | degree | away,| untune | that string,
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And hark | what dis|cord* fol|lows: each |
thing^meets
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In mere | oppug|nancy.| The boun|ded wa||ters,
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Should lift | their bos|oms high|er than | the
shores,
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And make | a sop | of all | this so|lid globe:
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Strength should | be lord | of im|beci|lity,
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And the / rude son | should strike | his fath|er
dead:
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Force should | be right,| or rath|er, right | and
wrong,
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(Between | whose^end|less jar,| justice |
resides)
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Should lose | their names,| and so | should
just|ice too.
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Then eve|ry thing | includes | itself | in power,
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Power in|to will,| will in|to ap|petite,
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And ap|petite |(a u|niver|sal wolf,
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So doub|ly sec|onded | with will,| and power)
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Must make | perforce | a u|niver|sal prey,
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And last,| eat up | himself. \\
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Great | Aga|memnon, (pickup)
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This cha|os, when | degree | is suf|focate,
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Follows the | choking: (picked up)
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And this | neglec|tion of | degree,| it is
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That by a | pace goes back|ward, with | a
pur||pose
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It hath | to climb.| The gen|eral's | disdained
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By him | one step below;| he, by | the next,
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That next,| by him | beneath:| so eve|ry step
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Examp|led by | the first | pace that | is sick
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Of his | super|ior, grows | to an en|vious
fe||ver
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Of pale,| and blood|less em|ula|tion.
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And 'tis | this fev|er that / keeps Troy | on
foot,
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Not her own | sinews.| To end | a tale | of
length,
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Troy in | our weak|ness stands,| not in | her
strength.
NESTOR
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Most^wise|ly hath | Ulys|ses here | discov||ered
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The fev|er, where|of all | our power | is sick.
AGAMEMNON
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The na|ture of | the sick|ness found |(Ulys||ses)
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What | is the rem|edy? (pickup)
ULYSSES
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The great | Achil|les, whom | opin|ion crowns,
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The sin|ew, and | the fore|hand of | our host,
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Having | his ear | full of | his ai|ry fame,
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Grows dain/ty of | his worth,| and in | his tent
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Lies mock/ing our de|signs. With | him,
Pa|troclus,
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Upon | a la|zy bed,| the livelong day
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Breaks^scur|ril jests, (picked up)
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And with ri|dicu|lous and | awkward | action,
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(Which^sland|erer,| he im|ita|tion calls)
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He pa|geants us. Some|time^great | Aga|memnon,
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Thy top|less dep|uta|tion he / puts on;
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And like | a strut|ting play|er, whose | conceit
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Lies in | his ham|string, and | doth think | it
rich
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To hear | the woo|den di|alogue | and sound
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'Twixt his stretched foot|ing, and | the
scaf|foldage,
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Such to be | pitied,| and ore-|wrested | seeming
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He acts | thy great|ness in:| and when | he
speaks,
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'Tis like | a chime | a-mend|ing. With terms
unsquared, ????
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Which from | the tongue | of roar|ing Ty|phon
dropped,
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Would seem | hyper|boles.| At this fus|ty stuff,
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The large | Achil|les (on his / pressed bed |
lolling)
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From his deep | chest, laughs out | a loud |
applause,
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Cries^ex|cellent,| 'tis Ag|amem|non just.
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Now play | me Nes|tor; hum,| and stroke | thy
beard
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As he,| being | dressed to | some o|ration:
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That's done,| as near | as the | extre|mest ends
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Of par|allels;| as like,| as Vul|can and his
wife,
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Yet god | Achil|les still | cries ex/cellent,
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'Tis Nes|tor right.| Now* play | him (me)|
Patroc||lus,
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Arm|ing to ans|wer in | a night | alarm,
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And then |(forsooth)| the faint | defects | of
age
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Must be | the scene | of mirth,| to cough,| and
spit,
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And with | a pal|sy-fum|bling on his | gorget,
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Shake^in | and out | the rivet:| and at | this
sport
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Sir val|or dies;| cries O enough | Patroc||lus,
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Or,| give me ribs | of steel,| I shall / split
all
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In pleas|ure of | my spleen.| And in | this
fash||ion,
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All | our abi|lities*,/ gifts, na|tures, shapes,
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Severals | and gen/erals | of grace | exact,
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Achieve|ments, plots,| orders,| prevent|ions,
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Excite|ments to | the field,| or speech | for
truce,
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Success | or loss,| what is,| or is / not, serves
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As stuff | for these | two*, to / make
pa|radoxes.
NESTOR
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And in | the im|ita|tion of / these twain,
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Who (as | Ulys|ses says)| opin|ion crowns
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With an | imper|ial voice,| many | are infect:
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Ajax is grown | self-willed, and bears | his head
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In such | a rein,| in full | as proud | a place
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As broad | Achil|les, and keeps | his tent |
like^him;
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Makes^fac|tious feasts,| rails on | our state |
of war
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Bold as an | ora|cle, and | sets Ther|sites
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A slave,| whose gall | coins^sland|ers like | a
mint,
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To match | us in | compa|risons | with dirt,
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To wea|ken and | discred|it our | expo|sure,
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How rank | soev|er roun|ded in | with dang|er.
(hex with prev)
ULYSSES
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They tax | our pol|icy*, and | call it
cow/ardice,
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Count wis/dom as | no mem/ber of | the war,
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Forestall pres|cience, and | esteem | no act
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But that | of hand:| the still | and men|tal
parts,
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That do | contrive | how ma|ny hands | shall
strike
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When fit|ness calls | them on,| and know | by
mea||sure
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Of their | observ|ant toil,| the
en|emies'^weight,
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Why this | hath not | a fing|er's dig|nity:
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They call | this bed-|work*, map|pery,
clos|et-war;
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So that | the ram | that bat|ters down | the
wall,
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For the / great swing | and rude|ness of | his
poise,
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They place | before | his hand | that made | the
en||gine,
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Or | those that | with the fine|ness of | their
souls,
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By reas|on guide | his ex|ecu|tion.
NESTOR
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Let^this | be grant|ed, and | Achil|les' horse
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Makes ma|ny The|tis' sons. \\
[A tucket]
AGAMEMNON
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What trump|et? Look | Mene|laus.
MENELAUS
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From Troy.
[Enter AENEAS]
AGAMEMNON
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What would | you 'fore | our tent?
AENEAS
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Is this great A||gamem|non's tent,| I pray |
you?
AGAMEMNON
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ev|en this.
AENEAS
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May one | that is | a her|ald, and | a prince,
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Do a / fair mes|sage to | his king|ly ears?
AGAMEMNON
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With sure|ty strong|er than | Achil|les' arm,
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'Fore all | the Gree|kish heads,| which^with /
one voice
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Call^A|gamem|non head | and gen|eral.
AENEAS
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Fair leave, and large | secur|ity.| How may
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A strang|er to | those^most | impe|rial looks,
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Know them | from eyes | of oth|er mort|als?
AGAMEMNON
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How?
AENEAS
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Aye: I | ask, that | I might | waken | reverence,
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And bid | the cheek | be rea|dy with | a blush
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Modest | as morn|ing, when | she cold|ly eyes
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The youth|ful Phoe|bus: \\
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Which is | that god | in of|fice gui|ding men?
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Which is the | high and | mighty | Aga|memnon?
AGAMEMNON
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This Tro|jan scorns | us; or | the men | of Troy
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Are ce|remo|nious court|iers.|
AENEAS
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Courtiers | as free,| as de|bonair;| unarmed,
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As bend|ing ang|els: that's | their fame,| in
peace:
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But when | they would / seem sol|diers, they |
have galls,
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Good^arms,| strong joints, true | swords, and
Jove's accord, ????
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Nothing so | full of | heart. But | peace
Ae|neas,
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Peace Tro/jan, lay*| thy fing|er on | thy lips,
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The worth|iness | of praise | distains | his
worth:
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If that | the praised | himself,| bring the
praise forth.
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But what | the repi|ning en|emy | commends,
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That breath | fame^blows,| that praise | sole*
sure | transcends.
AGAMEMNON
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Sir, you of | Troy, call*| you your|self Ae|neas?
AENEAS
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Aye Greek, that is | my name.
AGAMEMNON
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What's your af|fair I | pray you? (tri with
prev)
AENEAS
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Sir pard|on, 'tis | for Ag|amem|non's ears.
AGAMEMNON
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He hears | naught pri/vately | that comes | from
Troy.
AENEAS
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Nor I | from Troy | come^not | to whis|per him,
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I bring | a trump|et to | awake | his ear,
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To set | his sense | on the | atten|tive bent,
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And then | to speak.
AGAMEMNON
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Speak frank/ly as | the wind,
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It is / not Ag|amem|non's sleep|ing hour;
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That thou | shalt know | Troyan | he is | awake,
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He tells | thee so | himself.
AENEAS
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Trumpet blow loud,
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Send thy* brass voice | through all | these la|zy
tents, ??
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And eve|ry Greek | of met|tle, let | him know,
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What Troy | means fair/ly, shall | be spoke |
aloud.
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We have | great^Ag|amem|non here | in Troy,
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A prince called Hec|tor, Priam | is his | father:
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Who in | this dull | and long-|contin|ued truce
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Is rus|ty grown.| He bade | me take | a trumpet,
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And to this | purpose | speak: Kings, prin|ces,
lords,
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If there | be one | among | the fairest | of
Greece,
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That holds | his hon|or high|er than | his ease,
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, x
That seeks | his praise,| more than | he fears |
his peril,
, , ,
, ,
That knows | his val|or, and / knows not | his
fear,
, ,
, , 2
,
That loves | his mist|ress more | than in
con|fession,
,
,
, , ,
(With tru|ant vows | to her / own lips | he
loves)
, ,
, ,
,
And dare | avow | her beaut|y, and | her worth,
,
, , ,
, ->
In oth|er arms | than hers:| to him | this
chal||lenge.
,
x ,
, ,
Hec|tor, in view | of Tro|yans, and | of Greeks,
,
, , ,
x
Shall make | it good,| or do | his best | to do
it,
, ,
, , x
He hath | a la|dy, wis|er, fair|er, truer,
, ,
, ,
,
Than ev|er Greek | did comp|ass in | his arms,
,
, , ,
,
And will | tomor|row with | his trump|et call,
, ,
, ,
,
Midway*| between | your tents,| and walls | of
Troy,
,
, ,
, ,
To rouse | a Gre|cian that | is true | in love.
, ,
, ,
,
If an|y come,| Hector | shall hon|or him:
, ,
, , ,
If none,| he'll say | in Troy | when he |
retires,
,
, , T
. T T
The Gre|cian dames | are sun|burnt, and not worth
, ,
, , ,
The splin|ter of | a lance:| even | so much.
AGAMEMNON
,
2 , ,
, ,
This shall be | told our | lovers | Lord Ae|neas,
, ,
, ,
,
If none | of them | have soul | in such | a kind,
, ,
, , 2
,
We left | them all | at home:| but we are |
soldiers,
, , 2 ,
, ,
And may | that sol|dier a mere | recre|ant prove,
,
, T . T T ,
That means | not*, hath | not, or is not | in
love:
,
, ,
, ,
If then | one^is,| or hath,| or means | to be,
,
, 2
, , ,
That one | meets^Hec|tor; if none^/else, I'll |
be he.
NESTOR
,
, , ,
,
Tell him | of Nes|tor, one | that was | a man
, ,
, ,
,
When Hec|tor's grand|sire* sucked:| he is / old
now,
, , ,
, ,
But if | there be | not in | our Gre|cian mold,
T Tx T
, , ,
One noble man,| that hath / one spark | of fire
, , ,
, ,
To ans|wer for | his love;| tell him | from me,
,
, ,
2 , ,
I'll hide | my silv|er beard | in a gold |
beaver,
, 2
T T T ,
,
And in my | vantbrace put | this with|ered brawn,
,
, , ,
, 2->
And mee|ting him,| will tell | him, that | my
la||dy
, , ,
, ,
Was fair|er than his // grandam, and | as chaste
,
, ,
, ,
As may | be in | the world:| his youth | in
flood,
,
, , ,
,
I'll prove | this truth | with my / three drops |
of blood.
AENEAS
x ,
, ,
,
Now heavens | forbid | such scar|city | of youth.
ULYSSES
,
Amen. \\
AGAMEMNON
,
, ,
, ,
Fair Lord | Aene|as, let | me touch | your hand:
, ,
, ,
,
To our | pavil|ion shall | I lead | you first:
,
, ,
, ,
Achil|les shall | have word | of this | intent,
, ,
, ,
,
So shall | each lord | of Greece | from tent | to
tent:
, ,
, ,
,
Yourself | shall feast | with us | before | you
go,
, ,
, , ,
And find | the wel|come of | a nob|le foe.
[Exeunt all but ULYSSES and NESTOR]
ULYSSES
,
Nestor.
NESTOR
, ,
What says | Ulys|ses?
ULYSSES
<- , 2
, , ,
,
I | have a young || concep|tion in | my brain,
<- ,
, , 2
, ,
Be you | my time || to bring | it to some |
shape.
NESTOR
Tx
What | is it?
ULYSSES
T T
This 'tis:
T Tx
T T T .
T ,
Blunt wedges rive | hard knots: the see|ded pride
,
, , ,
,
That hath | to this | matu|rity | blown^up
, ,
, ,
,
In rank | Achil|les, must | or now | be cropped,
,
, , 2 ,
x
Or shed|ding breed | a nur|sery of / like evil
,
, ,
To ov|erbulk | us all.
NESTOR
T T T
Well, and how?
ULYSSES
, ,
, ,
,
This chal|lenge that | the gal|lant Hec|tor
sends,
, ,
, , 2
,
Howev|er it | is spread | in gen|eral name,
,
, , , 2 ,
Relates | in pur|pose on|ly to A|chilles.
NESTOR
, , 2 ,
2 , 2 ,
The pur|pose is per|spicuous | even as |
substance,
,
, ,
, ,
Whose gross|ness lit|tle char|acters | sum^up,
, 2
, ,
T T T
And in the | publi|cation | make no strain,
,
, ,
, ,
2->
But that | Achil|les, were | his brain | as
bar||ren
, ,
2 , ,
,
As banks | of Lib|ya, though |(Apol|lo knows)
, ,
, T
T . T ->
'Tis dry | enough,| will with | great speed of
judg||ment,
,
2 , ,
, ,
->
Aye,| with cele|rity,| find^Hec|tor's pur||pose
,
, 2
Poin|ting on | him.
ULYSSES
,
, ,
, ->
And wake | him to | the ans|wer, think || you?
NESTOR
, ,
T T T ,
,
Yes,| 'tis most | meet; whom may | you else |
oppose, (hex with prev)
, ,
, , ,
That can | from Hec|tor bring | his hon|or off,
,
, x 2 ,
, , ->
If not | Achil|les; Though it | be a sport|ful
com||bat,
, x
, ,
Yet | in this | trial, much^|opin|ion dwells.
, ,
, , 2
,
For here | the Tro|yans taste | our dear|est
repute
2
, x ,
, , ->
With their fin|est palate:| and trust | to me |
Ulys||ses,
, ,
, 2 ,
,
Our | impu|tation | shall be odd|ly poised
, , ,
,
In this / wild ac|tion. For | the suc/cess,
<- , ,
, , ,
,
(Al||though part|icu|lar) shall | give a |
scantling
,
, , ,
,
Of good | or bad,| unto | the gen|eral:
, , ,
. T T T
And in | such^in|dexes,| although small pricks
2 ,
, , T T T
To their sub|sequent / volumes,| there is seen
, ,
, ,
,
The ba|by fig|ure of | the gi|ant-mass
, ,
, ,
,
Of things | to come | at large.| It is |
supposed,
,
, ,
, ,
He that | meets^Hec|tor, iss|ues from | our
choice;
,
2 , 2 ,
, ,
And choice | being mu|tual act | of all | our
souls,
, ,
, ,
,
Makes me/rit her | elec|tion, and | doth boil
, ,
, ,
,
As 'twere,| from forth | us all:| a man |
distilled
,
, ,
, ,
Out of | our vir|tues; who | miscar|rying,
,
, ,
, 2 ,
What heart | from hence | receives | the
con|quering part
, ,
, ,
,
To steel | a strong | opin|ion to | themselves.
,
, ,
, ,
Which^ent|ertained,| limbs are | his
inst|ruments,
. T T T
, , ,
In no less work|ing, than | are swords | and bows
,
, ,
Direc|tive by | the limbs.
ULYSSES
, ,
,
Give par/don to | my speech: (tri with
prev)
, ,
, ,
, ->
Therefore |'tis meet,| Achil|les meet | not
Hec||tor:
x ,
, ,
,
Let us |(like^merch|ants) show | our foul|est
wares,
, ,
___ __ ,
And think | perchance | they'll | sell: | if not,
,
, , ,
,
The lus|ter of | the bet|ter yet | to show,
,
, , ,
__
Shall show | the bet|ter. Do | not con|sent,
, ,
, ,
,
That ev|er Hec|tor and | Achil|les meet:
,
, , ,
,
For both | our hon|or, and | our shame | in this,
, ,
, ,
Are dogged | with two | strange fol/lowers.
NESTOR
<- , ,
, , T T
T
I see || them not | with my / old eyes:| what
are they?
ULYSSES
, ,
, , ,
->
What glo|ry our | Achil|les shares | from
Hec||tor,
,
2 , ,
, ,
(Were | he not proud)| we all | should wear |
with him:
, ,
, , ,
But he | alrea|dy is / too in|solent,
,
, ,
, ,
And we | were bet|ter parch | in Af|ric sun,
,
, , ,
,
Than in | the pride | and salt | scorn of | his
eyes
, ,
, , ,
Should he /'scape Hec|tor fair.| If he | were
foiled,
,
, , ,
,
Why then | we did | our main | opin|ion crush
, 2
, T T T
, 2 ->
In taint | of our best | man. No, make | a
lot||tery;
, 2 ,
, ,
,
And | by device | let block|ish A|jax^draw
,
, ,
x ,
The sort | to fight | with Hec|tor: among |
ourselves,
,
, ,
, 2 ,
Give him | allow|ance as | the worth|ier man,
, ,
, , ,
For that | will phy|sic the / great Myr|midon
, ,
, ,
,
Who broils | in loud | applause,| and make | him
fall
, ,
, , ,
His crest,| that prou|der than / blue I|ris
bends.
2 ,
, T T T
,
If the dull | brainless | Ajax come | safe^off,
,
, ,
, ,
We'll dress | him up | in voi|ces: if | he fail,
,
, , ,
,
Yet go | we und|er our | opin|ion still,
,
, ,
, ,
That we | have bet|ter men.| But hit | or miss,
, ,
, ,
,
Our pro|ject's life | this shape | of sense |
assumes,
, ,
T T . T ,
Ajax^|employed,| plucks down Achil|les' plumes.
NESTOR
, ,
2 , x
2 ,
Now U|lysses,| I begin | to relish | thy advice,
??
, ,
, , ,
And I | will give | a taste | of it | forthwith
, , ,
, ,
To Ag|amem|non, go | we to | him straight:
, ,
, ,
,
Two* curs | shall tame | each^oth|er, pride |
alone
, ,
, ,
,
Must tarre | the mas|tiffs on,| as 'twere | their
bone.
[Exeunt]