Common Soldiers pass.[1058]
Cres. Here come more.[1059]
Pan. Asses, fools, dolts! chaff and bran, chaff and
bran! porridge after meat! I could live and die i'the eyes 230
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.
Cres. There is among the Greeks Achilles, a better[1060]
man than Troilus. 235
Pan. Achilles! a drayman, a porter, a very camel.
Cres. Well, well.
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, 240
gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice[1061]
and salt that season a man?[1062]
Cres. Ay, a minced man: and then to be baked with
no date in the pie, for then the man's date is out.[1063]
Pan. You are such a woman! one knows not at what[1064] 245
ward you lie.
Cres. Upon my back, to defend my belly; upon my wit,
to defend my wiles; upon my secrecy, to defend mine honesty;[1065]
my mask, to defend my beauty; and you, to defend all[1066]
these: and at all these wards I lie, at a thousand watches.[1067] 250