[Music.
Enter the show of Troilus and Cressida.
MERCURY.
Behold, how Troilus and Cressida
Cries out on Love, that framed their decay.
VULCAN.
That was like the old wife, when her ale would not come,
Thrust a firebrand in the grout, and scratch'd her bum.
[Music.
Enter the[71] show of Alexander.
MERCURY.
Alexander the Great, that all the world subdu'd,
Curseth fell Fortune, that did him delude.
VULCAN.
'Tis an honest, grim sire at his first coming out, believe me;
And ye had stood in the wind, ye might have smelt me.
[Music.
Enter the show of Queen Dido.