Cres. To bring, uncle?[1074]
Pan. Ay, a token from Troilus. 265
Cres. By the same token, you are a bawd.
[Exit Pandarus.[1075]
Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice,[1076]
He offers in another's enterprise:
But more in Troilus thousand fold I see
Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be; 270
Yet hold I off. Women are angels, wooing:
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:[1077]
That she beloved knows nought that knows not this:[1078]
Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is:
That she was never yet that ever knew 275
Love got so sweet as when desire did sue:[1079]
Therefore this maxim out of love I teach:[1080]
Achievement is command; ungain'd, beseech.[1080][1081]
Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear,[1082]
Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear. [Exeunt.[1083] 280
Scene III. The Grecian camp. Before Agamemnon's tent.
Sennet. Enter Agamemnon, Nestor, Ulysses, Menelaus, with others.[1084]
Agam. Princes,[1085]
What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks?[1086]
The ample proposition that hope makes[1087]
In all designs begun on earth below
Fails in the promised largeness: checks and disasters 5
Grow in the veins of actions highest rear'd,
As knots, by the conflux of meeting sap,
Infect the sound pine and divert his grain[1088]
Tortive and errant from his course of growth.
Nor, princes, is it matter new to us 10
That we come short of our suppose so far
That after seven years' siege yet Troy walls stand;
Sith every action that hath gone before,[1089]
Whereof we have record, trial did draw
Bias and thwart, not answering the aim 15
And that unbodied figure of the thought
That gave't surmised shape. Why then, you princes,
Do you with checks abash'd behold our works,[1090]
And call them shames? which are indeed nought else[1091]
But the protractive trials of great Jove 20
To find persistive constancy in men:
The fineness of which metal is not found
In fortune's love; for then the bold and coward,
The wise and fool, the artist and unread,
The hard and soft, seem all affined and kin: 25
But in the wind and tempest of her frown,
Distinction with a broad and powerful fan[1092]
Puffing at all winnows the light away,
And what hath mass or matter, by itself[1093]
Lies rich in virtue and unmingled. 30
Nest. With due observance of thy godlike seat,[1094]
Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply[1095]
Thy latest words. In the reproof of chance[1096]
Lies the true proof of men: the sea being smooth,
How many shallow bauble boats dare sail 35
Upon her patient breast, making their way[1097]
With those of nobler bulk![1098]
But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage
The gentle Thetis, and anon behold
The strong-ribb'd bark through liquid mountains cut,[1099] 40
Bounding between the two moist elements,
Like Perseus' horse: where's then the saucy boat,
Whose weak untimber'd sides but even now
Co-rivall'd greatness? either to harbour fled,
Or made a toast for Neptune. Even so[1100] 45
Doth valour's show and valour's worth divide
In storms of fortune: for in her ray and brightness[1101]
The herd hath more annoyance by the breese[1102]
Than by the tiger; but when the splitting wind[1103]
Makes flexible the knees of knotted oaks,[1103] 50
And flies fled under shade, why then the thing of courage[1104]
As roused with rage with rage doth sympathize,
And with an accent tuned in selfsame key[1105]
Retorts to chiding fortune.[1106]
Ulyss. Agamemnon,
Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece,[1107] 55
Heart of our numbers, soul and only spirit,[1108]
In whom the tempers and the minds of all
Should be shut up, hear what Ulysses speaks.
Besides the applause and approbation
The which, [To Agamemnon] most mighty for thy place and sway,[1109]60
[To Nestor] And thou most reverend for thy stretch'd-out life,[1110]
I give to both your speeches, which were such
As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece[1111]
Should hold up high in brass, and such again
As venerable Nestor, hatch'd in silver,[1112] 65
Should with a bond of air, strong as the axletree[1112]
On which heaven rides, knit all the Greekish ears[1113]
To his experienced tongue, yet let it please both,[1114]
Thou great, and wise, to hear Ulysses speak.[1115]