AJAX. I shall cut out your tongue. THER. 'T is no matter; I shall speak as much as thou, afterwards. THER. I will hold my peace when Achilles' brach bids me, shall I? ACHIL. There's for you, Patroclus. THER. I will see you hanged, like clotpoles, ere I come any more to your tents; I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools. [Exit. PATR. A good riddance. ACHIL. Marry, this, sir, is proclaim'd through all our host: That Hector, by the fifth a hour of the sun, AJAX. O, meaning you:-I'll go learn more of it. [Exeunt. SCENE II.-Troy. A Room in Priam's Palace. Enter PRIAM, HECTOR, TROILUS, PARIS, and HELENUS. PRI. After so many hours, lives, speeches spent, Wounds, friends, and what else dear that is consum'd Shall be struck off: "-Hector, what say you to 't? More spongy to suck in the sense of fear, More ready to cry out-"Who knows what follows?" Surety secure; but modest doubt is call'd The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To the bottom of the worst. Let Helen go: Since the first sword was drawn about this question, a Fifth. So the folio; the quarto has first, which obtains in modern editions. The knights of chivalry did not encounter at the first hour of the the lists would be set, and the ladies in their seats. play. sun; by the fifth of a summer's morning The usages of chivalry are those of this TRO. Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand dismesa, If we have lost so many tenths of ours, To guard a thing not ours; nor worth to us, What merit 's in that reason which denies Fie, fie, my brother! So great as our dread father, in a scale Of common ounces? will you with counters sum And buckle-in a waist most fathomless With spans and inches so diminutive As fears and reasons? fie, for godly shame! HEL. No marvel, though you bite so sharp at reasons, You are so empty of them. Should not our father Bear the great sway of his affairs with reasons, Because your speech hath none, that tells him so? TRO. You are for dreams and slumbers, brother priest 3, You fur your gloves with reason. Here are your reasons: You know an enemy intends you harm; You know a sword employ'd is perilous, And reason flies the object of all harm: Who marvels then, when Helenus beholds A Grecian and his sword, if he do set The very wings of reason to his heels; And fly like chidden Mercury from Jove, Or like a star dis-orb'd?-Nay, if we talk of reason, Make livers pale, and lustihood deject. HECT. Brother, she is not worth what she doth cost Hare in the quarto; by a typographical error, hard in the folio. • Inclinable in the folio-the quarto, attributive. To what infectiously itself affects, To blench from this, and to stand firm by honour: When we have spoil'd them: nor the remainder viands Because we now are full. It was thought meet, Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships, you If 'll avouch 't was wisdom Paris went, a Same. The word of the folio; the quarto has sive, which gives us the common reading of sieve. The second folio has place. The commentators say that sieve is a basket, and they tell us that sieves and half-sieves are well known in Covent Garden. That is true; but a sieve of fruit is a basket of picked fruit,—of the finest fruit, sorted from the commoner, according to the original notion of sieve, which implies separation. Same, on the contrary, is used as a noun, in the sense of a heap, or mass, collected in one place, in strict accordance with its Saxon derivation. Such use of the word is uncommon, but it is not the less correct. b How forcible is "your breath of full consent,"-compared with the reading of the quarto, which is invariably followed, "your breath, with full consent!" • Stale in the folio-the quarto, pale. CAS. Virgins and boys, mid-age, and wrinkled olda, We may not think the justness of each act PAR. Else might the world convince of levity TRAGEDIES.-VOL. II. a Old in the folio-the quarto, elders. [Exit. PRI. All fears attending on so dire a project. And had as ample power as I have will, Paris should ne'er retract what he hath done, Paris, you speak The pleasures such a beauty brings with it; On terms of base compulsion! Can it be That so degenerate a strain as this Should once set footing in your generous bosoms? Well may we fight for her, whom, we know well, HECT. Paris, and Troilus, you have both said well; The reasons you allege do more conduce Than to make up a free determination "Twixt right and wrong; for pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice Of any true decision. Nature craves All dues be render'd to their owners: Now What nearer debt in all humanity Than wife is to the husband? if this law Of nature be corrupted through affection, |