Cres. Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, From false to false, among false maids in love, Pan. Go to, a bargain made: seal it, seal it; I'll be the witness.-Here I hold your hand: here, my cousin's. If ever you prove false one to another, since I have taken such pains to bring you together, let all pitiful goers-between be called to the world's end after my name, call them all-Pandars; let all constant men be Troiluses, all false women Cressids, and all brokers-between Pandars! say, amen. Tro. Amen. Cres. Amen. Pan. Amen. Whereupon I will show you a chamber, which bed, because it shall not speak of your pretty encounters, press it to death: away. And Cupid grant all tongue-tied maidens here, Bed, chamber, and Pandar to provide this geer! [Exeunt. SCENE III.-The Grecian Camp. Enter AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, NESTOR, AJAX, MENELAUS, and CALCHAS. Cal. Now, princes, for the service I have done you, The advantage of the time prompts me aloud VOL. IX. To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind, To give me now a little benefit, Out of those many register'd in promise, Which you say live to come in my behalf. Agam. What wouldst thou of us, Trojan? make de mand. Cal. You have a Trojan prisoner, call'd Antenor, In change of him: let him be sent, great princes, Agam. Let Diomedes bear him, And bring us Cressid hither; Calchas shall have Furnish you fairly for this interchange : Withal, bring word, if Hector will to-morrow a The meaning appears to us sufficiently clear-through my prescience in knowing what things I should love. Dio. This shall I undertake; and 't is a burthen Which I am proud to bear. [Exeunt DIOм. and CAL. Enter ACHILLES and PATROCLUS, before their Tent. Ulyss. Achilles stands i' the entrance of his tent :Please it our general to pass strangely by him, As if he were forgot; and, princes all, Lay negligent and loose regard upon him: I will come last: "T is like, he 'll question me, Why such unplausive eyes are bent, why turn'd on him : If so, I have derision medicinable, To use between your strangeness and his pride, Achil. What, comes the general to speak with me? You know my mind, I 'll fight no more 'gainst Troy. Agam. What says Achilles? would he aught with us? Nest. Would you, my lord, aught with the general? Achil. No. Nest. Nothing, my lord. Agam. The better. [Exeunt AGAM. and NEST. [Exit MEN. Achil. Good day, good day. Men. How do you? how do you? Achil. What, does the cuckold scorn me? Ajax. How now, Patroclus? Achil. Good morrow, Ajax. Ajax. Ha? Achil. Good morrow. Ajax. Ay, and good next day too. [Exit AJAX. Achil. What mean these fellows? Know they not Achilles? Patr. They pass by strangely: they were us'd to bend, To send their smiles before them to Achilles; To come as humbly as they us'd to creep To holy altars. Achil. What, am I poor of late? 'T is certain, greatness, once fallen out with fortune, Must fall out with men too: What the declin'd is, He shall as soon read in the eyes of others, As feel in his own fall: for men, like butterflies, Hath any honour; but honour for those honours Which, when they fall, as being slippery standers, At ample point all that I did possess, Save these men's looks: who do, methinks, find out How now, Ulysses? Ulyss. Now, great Thetis' son! Achil. What are you reading? Ulyss. A strange fellow here Writes me, that man, how dearly ever parted, How much in having, or without, or in, Cannot make boast to have that which he hath, Nor feels not what he owes but by reflection; As when his virtues shining upon others Heat them, and they retort that heat again To the first giver. Achil. This is not strange, Ulysses. The beauty that is borne here in the face Till it hath travell'd, and is married there (Though in and of him there is much consisting,) Till he communicate his parts to others : Nor doth he of himself know them for aught Till he behold them form'd in the applause Where they are extended; which, like an arch, reverberates The voice again; or, like a gate of steel Fronting the sun, receives and renders back His figure and his heat. I was much rapt in this; The unknown Ajax. Heavens, what a man is there! a very horse; That has he knows not what. Nature, what things there are, Most abject in regard, and dear in use! What things again most dear in the esteem, And poor in worth! Now shall we see to-morrow, While some men leave to do! How some men creep in skittish fortune's hall, |