As true as Troilus shall crown up the verse, Cres. Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, And mighty states characterless are grated To dusty nothing; yet let memory From false to false, among false maids in love, As fox to lamb, as wolf to heifer's calf, Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son; Yea, let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood, 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 brokersbetween Pandars! say, amen. Tro. Amen. Cres. Amen. Pan. Amen. Whereupon I will show you a chamber and a bed, 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, 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 To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind, That, through the sight I bear in things, to Jove I have abandon'd Troy, left my possession, Incurr'd a traitor's name; expos'd myself, From certain and possess'd conveniences, To doubtful fortunes; séquest'ring from me all That time, acquaintance, custom, and condition, Made tame and most familiar to my nature; And here, to do you service, am become As new into the world, strange, unacquainted: I do beseech you, as in way of taste, 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, 5 such a wrest —] Wrest is an instrument for tuning the harp by drawing up the strings. And he shall buy my daughter; and her presence In most accepted pain". Let Diomedes bear him, Agam. [Exeunt DIOMEDES and CALCHAS. 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 : Why such unplausive eyes are bent, why turn'd on him: 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. 6 In most accepted pain.] i. e. Her presence, says Calchas, shall strike off, or recompense the service I have done, even in those labours which were most accepted. JOHNSON. Agam. What says Achilles? would he aught with us? Nest. Nothing, my lord. Agam. A chil. The better. No. [Exeunt AGAMEMNON and NESTOR. Men. How do you? how do you? [Exit MENELAUS. Achil Good day, good day. What, does the cuckold scorn me? 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. A chil. What, am I poor of late? 'Tis certain, greatness, once fallen out with fortune, Hath any honour; but honour for those honours Which when they fall, as being slippery standers, triches, and favour,"-MALONE. At ample point all that I did possess, Save these men's looks; who do, methinks, find out I'll interrupt his reading.— 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 It is familiar; but at the author's drift: (Though in and of him there be much consisting,) 7 how dearly ever parted,] However excellently endowed, with however dear or precious parts enriched or adorned. 8 argument. in his circumstance,] In the detail or circumduction of his |