As true thou tell'st me, when I say I love her; Thou lay'st in every gash that love hath given mè SUCCESS NOT EQUAL TO OUR HOPES. The ample proposition, that hope makes Fails in the promis'd largeness: checks and disasters ADVERSITY THE TRIAL OF MAN. Why then, you princes, Do you with cheeks abashed behold our works; And think them shames, which are, indeed, nought else, But the protractive trials of great Jove, ON DEGREE. Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows! each thing meets In meret oppugnancy: The bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe: Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or, rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) *Twisted and rambling. † Joined by affinity. + Absolute. Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, And appetite, an universal wolf. So doubtedly secondly with will and power, ACHILLES DESCRIBED BY ULYSSES. The great Achilles,-(whom opinion crowns) 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 toplesst deputation he puts on; And, like a strutting player,-whose conceit He acts thy greatness in: and when he speaks, Now play me Nestor;--hem, and stroke thy beard, That's done;-as near as the extremest ends 'Tis Nestor right! Now play him me, Patroclus, * In modern language, takes us off. + Supreme. § Beyond the truth. The galleries of the theatre. And then, forsooth, the faint defects of age CONDUCT IN WAR SUPERIOR TO ACTION. The still and mental parts, 'That do contrive how many hands shall strike, They call this-bed-work, mappery, closet-war RESPECT. I ask, that I might waken reverence, And bid the cheek be ready with a blush Modest as morning when she coldly eyes The youthful Phœbus. ACT II. DOUBT, The wound of peace is surdity, PLEASURE AND REVENGE. For pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice T THE SUBTILTY OF ULYSSES, AND STUPIDITY OF AJAX. Ajar. I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engen dering of toads. Nest. And yet he loves himself: Is it not strange! [Aside Ulyss. Achilles will not to the field to-morrow. Agam. What's his excuse? Ulyss. He doth rely on none; But carries on the stream of his dispose, Without observance or respect of any, In will peculiar and in self-admission. Agam. Why will he not, upon our fair request, Untent his person, and share the air with us? Ulyss. Things small as nothing, for request's sake only, He makes important: Possess'd he is with greatness That quarrels at self-breath: imagin'd worth Let Ajax go to him. Agam. Ulyss. O'Agamemnon, let it not be so! *Fat. As amply titled as Achilles is, By going to Achilles: That were to enlard his fat already pride; And add more coals to Cancer,* when he burns This lord go to him! Jupiter forbid; And say in thunder-Achilles, go to him. Nest. O, this is well; he rubs the vein of him. [Aside. Dio. And how his silence drinks up this applause! Aside. Ajax. If I go to him, with my arm'd fist I'll pasht him Over the face. O, no, you shall not go. [pride. Agam. Ajax. An he be proud with me, I'll pheeze‡ his Let me go to him. Ulyss. Not for the worth that hangs upon our quarrel. Ajax. A paltry, insolent fellow, Nest. Himself! Ajax. Can he not be sociable? Chides blackness. How he describes [Aside. The raven [Aside. I will let his humours blood. Agam. Hell be physician, that should be the Ulyss. Ajax. patient. [Aside. Ajax. An all men Where o' my mind, Ulyss. Wit would be out of fashion. [Aside. Ajax. He should not bear it so, He should eat swords first: Shall pride carry it? [Aside. *The sign in the Zodiac into which the sun enters "And Cancer reddens with the solar blaze." June 21. † Strike. Thomson. Comb, or curry. |