Ajax. Will you subscribe his thought and say he is?
Agam. No, noble Ajax; you are as strong, as valiant,
as wise, no less noble, much more gentle and altogether[1458]
more tractable. 145
Ajax. Why should a man be proud? How doth pride
grow? I know not what pride is.[1459]
Agam. Your mind is the clearer, Ajax, and your virtues[1460]
the fairer. He that is proud eats up himself: pride is[1461]
his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle; and 150
whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in[1462]
the praise.
Ajax. I do hate a proud man, as I hate the engendering[1463]
of toads.
Nest. [Aside] Yet he loves himself: is't not strange?155
Re-enter Ulysses.[1464]
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.[1465] 160