Diom. No doubt he does.

Ajax. Do you think so?

Agam. No, noble Ajax; you are as strong, as valiant but much more courteous.

Ajax. Why should a man be proud? I know not what pride is; I hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering of toads.

Diom. [Aside.] 'Tis strange he should, and love himself so well.

306 Re-enter Menelaus.

Men. Achilles will not to the field to-morrow.

Agam. What's his excuse?

Men. Why, he relies on none
But his own will; possessed he is with vanity.
What should I say? he is so plaguy proud,
That the death-tokens of it are upon him,
And bode there's no recovery.

Enter Ulysses and Nestor.