Chapter IX: Act III: SCENE I. Troy. A room in Priam's palace

_Enter_ PANDARUS _and a_ Servant.[1526]

_Pan._ Friend, you, pray you, a word: do you not follow[1527]
the young Lord Paris?

_Serv._ Ay, sir, when he goes before me.[1528]

_Pan._ You depend upon him, I mean?[1529]

_Serv._ Sir, I do depend upon the Lord. 5

_Pan._ You depend upon a noble gentleman; I must[1530]
needs praise him.

_Serv._ The Lord be praised!

_Pan._ You know me, do you not?

_Serv._ Faith, sir, superficially. 10

_Pan._ Friend, know me better; I am the Lord Pandarus.

_Serv._ I hope I shall know your honour better.

_Pan._ I do desire it.

_Serv._ You are in the state of grace.[1531]

_Pan._ Grace! not so, friend; honour and lordship are 15
my titles. [_Music within._] What music is this?[1532]

_Serv._ I do but partly know, sir: it is music in parts.[1533]

_Pan._ Know you the musicians?

_Serv._ Wholly, sir.

_Pan._ Who play they to? 20

_Serv._ To the hearers, sir.

_Pan._ At whose pleasure, friend?

_Serv._ At mine, sir, and theirs that love music.

_Pan._ Command, I mean, friend.[1534]

_Serv._ Who shall I command, sir? 25

_Pan._ Friend, we understand not one another: I am
too courtly, and thou art too cunning. At whose request[1535]
do these men play?

_Serv._ That's to't, indeed, sir: marry, sir, at the request
of Paris my lord, who is there in person; with him, the[1536] 30
mortal Venus, the heart-blood of beauty, love's invisible[1537]
soul.[1538]

_Pan._ Who, my cousin Cressida?

_Serv._ No, sir, Helen: could not you find out that by[1539]
her attributes? 35

_Pan._ It should seem, fellow, that thou hast not seen[1540]
the Lady Cressida. I come to speak with Paris from the[1541]
Prince Troilus: I will make a complimental assault upon
him, for my business seethes.

_Serv._ Sodden business! there's a stewed phrase indeed![1542] 40

_Enter_ PARIS _and_ HELEN, _attended_.[1543]

_Pan._ Fair be to you, my lord, and to all this fair company!
fair desires, in all fair measure, fairly guide them!
especially to you, fair queen! fair thoughts be your fair
pillow!

_Helen._ Dear lord, you are full of fair words.[1544] 45

_Pan._ You speak your fair pleasure, sweet queen. Fair
prince, here is good broken music.

_Par._ You have broke it, cousin: and, by my life, you[1545]
shall make it whole again; you shall piece it out with a
piece of your performance. Nell, he is full of harmony.[1546] 50

_Pan._ Truly, lady, no.

_Helen._ O, sir,--

_Pan._ Rude, in sooth; in good sooth, very rude.

_Par._ Well said, my lord! well, you say so in fits.[1547]

_Pan._ I have business to my lord, dear queen. My 55
lord, will you vouchsafe me a word?

_Helen._ Nay, this shall not hedge us out: we'll hear[1548]
you sing, certainly.

_Pan._ Well, sweet queen, you are pleasant with me.
But, marry, thus, my lord: my dear lord, and most esteemed 60
friend, your brother Troilus--

_Helen._ My Lord Pandarus; honey-sweet lord,--

_Pan._ Go to, sweet queen, go to:--commends himself[1549]
most affectionately to you--[1549]

_Helen._ You shall not bob us out of our melody: if you[1550] 65
do, our melancholy upon your head![1550]

_Pan._ Sweet queen, sweet queen; that's a sweet queen,
i' faith.[1551]

_Helen._ And to make a sweet lady sad is a sour offence.[1552]

_Pan._ Nay, that shall not serve your turn; that shall it[1553] 70
not, in truth, la. Nay, I care not for such words; no, no.[1553]
And, my lord, he desires you, that if the king call for him[1553]
at supper, you will make his excuse.[1553][1554]

_Helen._ My Lord Pandarus,--

_Pan._ What says my sweet queen, my very very sweet[1555] 75
queen?

_Par._ What exploit's in hand? where sups he to-night?[1556]

_Helen._ Nay, but, my lord,--

_Pan._ What says my sweet queen? My cousin will[1557][1558]
fall out with you. You must not know where he sups.[1557][1558][1559] 80

_Par._ I'll lay my life, with my disposer Cressida.[1557][1560][1561]

_Pan._ No, no, no such matter; you are wide: come,
your disposer is sick.[1561]

_Par._ Well, I'll make excuse.[1562]

_Pan._ Ay, good my lord. Why should you say Cressida? 85
no, your poor disposer's sick.[1561][1563]

_Par._ I spy.[1564]

_Pan._ You spy! what do you spy? Come, give me an
instrument. Now, sweet queen.[1565]

_Helen._ Why, this is kindly done.[1566] 90

_Pan._ My niece is horribly in love with a thing you[1567]
have, sweet queen.

_Helen._ She shall have it, my lord, if it be not my lord
Paris.

_Pan._ He! no, she'll none of him; they two are twain.[1568] 95

_Helen._ Falling in, after falling out, may make them three.

_Pan._ Come, come, I'll hear no more of this; I'll sing
you a song now.

_Helen._ Ay, ay, prithee now. By my troth, sweet lord,[1569]
thou hast a fine forehead. 100

_Pan._ Ay, you may, you may.[1570]

_Helen._ Let thy song be love: this love will undo us all.
O Cupid, Cupid, Cupid!

_Pan._ Love! ay, that it shall, i'faith.

_Par._ Ay, good now, love, love, nothing but love. 105

_Pan._ In good troth, it begins so. [_Sings._[1571]

Love, love, nothing but love, still more![1572]
For, O, love's bow[1573]
Shoots buck and doe:[1573][1574]
The shaft confounds,[1575][1576] 110
Not that it wounds,[1575]
But tickles still the sore.
These lovers cry Oh! oh! they die:[1577]
Yet that which seems the wound to kill,[1578]
Doth turn oh! oh! to ha! ha! he![1577][1579] 115
So dying love lives still:
Oh! oh! a while, but ha! ha! ha![1577]
Oh! oh! groans out for ha! ha! ha![1577]

Heigh-ho![1580]

_Helen._ In love, i'faith, to the very tip of the nose. 120

_Par._ He eats nothing but doves, love, and that breeds[1581]
hot blood and hot blood begets hot thoughts and hot
thoughts beget hot deeds and hot deeds is love.[1582]

_Pan._ Is this the generation of love? hot blood, hot[1583]
thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers: is love a[1583][1584] 125
generation of vipers? Sweet lord, who's afield to-day?[1583][1585]

_Par._ Hector, Deiphobus, Helenus, Antenor, and all
the gallantry of Troy: I would fain have armed to-day, but[1586]
my Nell would not have it so. How chance my brother
Troilus went not? 130

_Helen._ He hangs the lip at something: you know all,
Lord Pandarus.

_Pan._ Not I, honey-sweet queen. I long to hear how
they sped to-day. You'll remember your brother's excuse?

_Par._ To a hair. 135

_Pan._ Farewell, sweet queen.

_Helen._ Commend me to your niece.

_Pan._ I will, sweet queen. [_Exit._

[_A retreat sounded._[1587]

_Par._ They're come from field: let us to Priam's hall,[1588]
To greet the warriors. Sweet Helen, I must woo you 140
To help unarm our Hector: his stubborn buckles,
With these your white enchanting fingers touch'd,[1589]
Shall more obey than to the edge of steel
Or force of Greekish sinews; you shall do more
Than all the island kings,--disarm great Hector. 145

_Helen._ 'Twill make us proud to be his servant, Paris;[1590]
Yea, what he shall receive of us in duty
Gives us more palm in beauty than we have,
Yea, overshines ourself.

_Par._ Sweet, above thought I love thee. [_Exeunt._[1591] 150

SCENE II. _An orchard to Pandarus' house._

_Enter_ PANDARUS _and_ TROILUS' Boy, _meeting_.[1592]

_Pan._ How now! where's thy master? at my cousin[1593]
Cressida's?

_Boy._ No, sir; he stays for you to conduct him thither.[1594]

_Pan._ O, here he comes.

_Enter_ TROILUS.

How now, how now! 5

_Tro._ Sirrah, walk off. [_Exit Boy._[1595]

_Pan._ Have you seen my cousin?

_Tro._ No, Pandarus: I stalk about her door,
Like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks[1596]
Staying for waftage. O, be thou my Charon, 10
And give me swift transportance to those fields[1597]
Where I may wallow in the lily-beds
Proposed for the deserver! O gentle Pandarus,[1598]
From Cupid's shoulder pluck his painted wings,
And fly with me to Cressid! 15

_Pan._ Walk here i' the orchard, I'll bring her straight.

[_Exit._[1599]

_Tro._ I am giddy; expectation whirls me round.[1600]
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense: what will it be,[1601]
When that the watery palates taste indeed[1602] 20
Love's thrice repured nectar? death, I fear me,[1603]
Swounding destruction, or some joy too fine,[1604]
Too subtle-potent, tuned too sharp in sweetness,[1605]
For the capacity of my ruder powers:[1606]
I fear it much, and I do fear besides 25
That I shall lose distinction in my joys,
As doth a battle, when they charge on heaps
The enemy flying.

_Re-enter_ PANDARUS.[1607]

_Pan._ She's making her ready, she'll come straight:
you must be witty now. She does so blush, and fetches 30
her wind so short, as if she were frayed with a sprite: I'll[1608]
fetch her. It is the prettiest villain: she fetches her breath[1609]
as short as a new-ta'en sparrow. [_Exit._[1610]

_Tro._ Even such a passion doth embrace my bosom:
My heart beats thicker than a feverous pulse; 35
And all my powers do their bestowing lose,
Like vassalage at unawares encountering[1611]
The eye of majesty.

_Re-enter_ PANDARUS _with_ CRESSIDA.[1612]

_Pan._ Come, come, what need you blush? shame's a[1613]
baby. Here she is now: swear the oaths now to her that 40
you have sworn to me. What, are you gone again? you
must be watched ere you be made tame, must you? Come
your ways, come your ways; an you draw backward, we'll[1614]
put you i' the fills. Why do you not speak to her? Come,[1615]
draw this curtain, and let's see your picture. Alas the day,[1616] 45
how loath you are to offend daylight! an 'twere dark, you'ld
close sooner. So, so; rub on, and kiss the mistress. How
now! a kiss in fee-farm! build there, carpenter; the air is
sweet. Nay, you shall fight your hearts out ere I part you.
The falcon as the tercel, for all the ducks i' the river: go[1617] 50
to, go to.

_Tro._ You have bereft me of all words, lady.

_Pan._ Words pay no debts, give her deeds: but she'll
bereave you o' the deeds too, if she call your activity in[1618]
question. What, billing again? Here's 'In witness whereof[1619] 55
the parties interchangeably'--Come in, come in: I'll go get[1619]
a fire. [_Exit._[1620]

_Cres._ Will you walk in, my lord?

_Tro._ O Cressida, how often have I wished me thus![1621]

_Cres._ Wished, my lord?--The gods grant--O my lord![1622] 60

_Tro._ What should they grant? what makes this pretty
abruption? What too curious dreg espies my sweet lady[1623]
in the fountain of our love?

_Cres._ More dregs than water, if my fears have eyes.[1624]

_Tro._ Fears make devils of cherubins; they never see truly.[1625] 65

_Cres._ Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer[1626]
footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear
the worst oft cures the worse.[1627]

_Tro._ O, let my lady apprehend no fear: in all Cupid's[1628]
pageant there is presented no monster.[1628] 70

_Cres._ Nor nothing monstrous neither?[1629]

_Tro._ Nothing, but our undertakings; when we vow to[1630]
weep seas, live in fire, eat rocks, tame tigers; thinking it
harder for our mistress to devise imposition enough than
for us to undergo any difficulty imposed. This is the[1631] 75
monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite and the
execution confined, that the desire is boundless and the
act a slave to limit.

_Cres._ They say, all lovers swear more performance than
they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never 80
perform, vowing more than the perfection of ten and discharging
less than the tenth part of one. They that have the
voice of lions and the act of hares, are they not monsters?

_Tro._ Are there such? such are not we: praise us as we
are tasted, allow us as we prove; our head shall go bare till 85
merit crown it: no perfection in reversion shall have a praise[1632]
in present: we will not name desert before his birth, and,
being born, his addition shall be humble. Few words to
fair faith: Troilus shall be such to Cressid as what envy
can say worst shall be a mock for his truth, and what[1633] 90
truth can speak truest, not truer than Troilus.

_Cres._ Will you walk in, my lord?

_Re-enter_ PANDARUS.[1634]

_Pan._ What, blushing still? have you not done talking[1635]
yet?

_Cres._ Well, uncle, what folly I commit, I dedicate to 95
you.

_Pan._ I thank you for that: if my lord get a boy of you,
you'll give him me. Be true to my lord: if he flinch, chide
me for it.

_Tro._ You know now your hostages; your uncle's word 100
and my firm faith.

_Pan._ Nay, I 'll give my word for her too: our kindred,
though they be long ere they are wooed, they are constant[1636]
being won: they are burs, I can tell you; they'll stick
where they are thrown. 105

_Cres._ Boldness comes to me now, and brings me heart.[1637]
Prince Troilus, I have loved you night and day[1637]
For many weary months.[1637]

_Tro._ Why was my Cressid then so hard to win?

_Cres._ Hard to seem won: but I was won, my lord, 110
With the first glance that ever--pardon me;[1638]
If I confess much, you will play the tyrant.
I love you now; but not, till now, so much[1639]
But I might master it: in faith, I lie;
My thoughts were like unbridled children, grown[1640] 115
Too headstrong for their mother. See, we fools!
Why have I blabb'd? who shall be true to us,
When we are so unsecret to ourselves?
But, though I loved you well, I woo'd you not;
And yet, good faith, I wish'd myself a man, 120
Or that we women had men's privilege[1641]
Of speaking first. Sweet, bid me hold my tongue;
For in this rapture I shall surely speak
The thing I shall repent. See, see, your silence,[1642]
Cunning in dumbness, from my weakness draws[1643] 125
My very soul of counsel! Stop my mouth.[1644]

_Tro._ And shall, albeit sweet music issues thence.[1645]

_Pan._ Pretty, i' faith.

_Cres._ My lord, I do beseech you, pardon me;
'Twas not my purpose thus to beg a kiss: 130
I am ashamed; O heavens! what have I done?
For this time will I take my leave, my lord.

_Tro._ Your leave, sweet Cressid?[1646]

_Pan._ Leave! an you take leave till to-morrow morning--[1647]

_Cres._ Pray you, content you.[1648] 135

_Tro._ What offends you, lady?[1648]

_Cres._ Sir, mine own company.[1648]

_Tro._ You cannot shun yourself.[1648][1649]

_Cres._ Let me go and try:[1648][1650]
I have a kind of self resides with you,[1651] 140
But an unkind self that itself will leave
To be another's fool. I would be gone:[1652]
Where is my wit? I know not what I speak.[1652]

_Tro._ Well know they what they speak that speak so wisely.[1653]

_Cres._ Perchance, my lord, I show more craft than love,[1654] 145
And fell so roundly to a large confession
To angle for your thoughts: but you are wise;[1655]
Or else you love not, for to be wise and love[1655][1656]
Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.[1657]

_Tro._ O that I thought it could be in a woman-- 150
As, if it can, I will presume in you--[1658]
To feed for aye her lamp and flames of love;[1659]
To keep her constancy in plight and youth,
Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind[1660]
That doth renew swifter than blood decays! 155
Or that persuasion could but thus convince me,[1661]
That my integrity and truth to you
Might be affronted with the match and weight
Of such a winnowed purity in love;[1662]
How were I then uplifted! but, alas! 160
I am as true as truth's simplicity
And simpler than the infancy of truth.

_Cres._ In that I'll war with you.

_Tro._ O virtuous fight,
When right with right wars who shall be most right![1663]
True swains in love shall in the world to come[1664] 165
Approve their truths by Troilus: when their rhymes,[1665]
Full of protest, of oath and big compare,
Want similes, truth tired with iteration,[1666]
'As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,[1667]
As sun to day, as turtle to her mate, 170
As iron to adamant, as earth to the centre,'
Yet, after all comparisons of truth,[1668]
As truth's authentic author to be cited,[1669]
'As true as Troilus' shall crown up the verse[1670]
And sanctify the numbers.

_Cres._ Prophet may you be! 175
If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth,
When time is old and hath forgot itself,[1671]
When waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy,
And blind oblivion swallow'd cities up,
And mighty states characterless are grated 180
To dusty nothing, yet let memory,
From false to false, among false maids in love,
Upbraid my falsehood! when they've said 'as false[1672]
As air, as water, wind, or sandy earth,[1673]
As fox to lamb, or wolf to heifer's calf,[1674] 185
Pard to the hind, or stepdame to her son,'
'Yea,' let them say, to stick the heart of falsehood,
'As false as Cressid.'

_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[1675] 190
you prove false one to another, since I have taken such pains[1676]
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,[1677]
and all brokers-between Pandars! Say 'amen.' 195

_Tro._ Amen.

_Cres._ Amen.

_Pan._ Amen. Whereupon I will show you a chamber[1678]
with a bed; which bed, because it shall not speak of your[1678]
pretty encounters, press it to death: away![1679] 200

[_Exeunt Tro. and Cres._

And Cupid grant all tongue-tied maidens here
Bed, chamber, Pandar to provide this gear!

[_Exit._[1680]

SCENE III. _The Grecian camp._

_Flourish. Enter_ AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, DIOMEDES, NESTOR, AJAX,
MENELAUS, _and_ CALCHAS.[1681]

_Cal._ Now, princes, for the service I have done you,[1682]
The advantage of the time prompts me aloud
To call for recompense. Appear it to your mind[1683]
That, through the sight I bear in things to love,[1684]
I have abandon'd Troy, left my possession,[1685] 5
Incurr'd a traitor's name; exposed myself,
From certain and possess'd conveniences,
To doubtful fortunes; sequestering from me all[1686]
That time, acquaintance, custom and condition
Made tame and most familiar to my nature, 10
And here, to do you service, am become
As new into the world, strange, unacquainted:[1687]
I do beseech you, as in way of taste,
To give me now a little benefit,
Out of those many register'd in promise, 15
Which, you say, live to come in my behalf.

_Agam._ What wouldst thou of us, Trojan? make demand.

_Cal._ You have a Trojan prisoner, call'd Antenor,
Yesterday took: Troy holds him very dear.
Oft have you--often have you thanks therefore-- 20
Desired my Cressid in right great exchange,
Whom Troy hath still denied: but this Antenor,
I know, is such a wrest in their affairs[1688]
That their negotiations all must slack,
Wanting his manage; and they will almost[1689] 25
Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam,[1690]
In change of him: let him be sent, great princes,
And he shall buy my daughter; and her presence
Shall quite strike off all service I have done,
In most accepted pain.

_Agam._ Let Diomedes bear him,[1691] 30
And bring us Cressid hither: Calchas shall have
What he requests of us. Good Diomed,
Furnish you fairly for this interchange:
Withal, bring word if Hector will to-morrow[1692]
Be answer'd in his challenge: Ajax is ready. 35

_Dio._ This shall I undertake; and 'tis a burthen
Which I am proud to bear. [_Exeunt Diomedes and Calchas._

_Enter_ ACHILLES _and_ PATROCLUS, _before their tent_.[1693]

_Ulyss._ Achilles stands i' the entrance of his tent:
Please it our general pass strangely by him,[1694]
As if he were forgot; and, princes all, 40
Lay negligent and loose regard upon him:
I will come last. 'Tis like he'll question me
Why such unplausive eyes are bent on him:[1695]
If so, I have derision medicinable,[1696]
To use between your strangeness and his pride,[1697] 45
Which his own will shall have desire to drink.
It may do good: pride hath no other glass
To show itself but pride, for supple knees
Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

_Agam._ We'll execute your purpose and put on 50
A form of strangeness as we pass along;
So do each lord, and either greet him not
Or else disdainfully, which shall shake him more
Than if not look'd on. I will lead the way.

_Achil._ What, comes the general to speak with me? 55
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. 60

_Agam._ The better. [_Exeunt Agamemnon and Nestor._[1698]

_Achil._ Good day, good day.

_Men._ How do you? how do you? [_Exit._[1699]

_Achil._ What, does the cuckold scorn me?

_Ajax._ How now, Patroclus! 65

_Achil._ Good morrow, Ajax.

_Ajax._ Ha?[1700]

_Achil._ Good morrow.[1701]

_Ajax._ Ay, and good next day too. [_Exit._[1702]

_Achil._ What mean these fellows? Know they not Achilles?[1703] 70

_Patr._ They pass by strangely: they were used to bend,[1704]
To send their smiles before them to Achilles,
To come as humbly as they used to creep[1705][1706]
To holy altars.[1705]

_Achil._ What, am I poor of late?
'Tis certain, greatness, once fall'n out with fortune, 75
Must fall out with men too: what the declined is,
He shall as soon read in the eyes of others
As feel in his own fall: for men, like butterflies,
Show not their mealy wings but to the summer,
And not a man, for being simply man,[1707] 80
Hath any honour, but honour for those honours[1708]
That are without him, as place, riches, and favour,[1709]
Prizes of accident as oft as merit:
Which when they fall, as being slippery standers,
The love that lean'd on them as slippery too,[1710] 85
Do one pluck down another and together[1711][1712]
Die in the fall. But 'tis not so with me:[1712]
Fortune and I are friends: I do enjoy
At ample point all that I did possess,
Save these men's looks; who do, methinks, find out 90
Something not worth in me such rich beholding[1713]
As they have often given. Here is Ulysses:
I'll interrupt his reading.[1714]
How now, Ulysses![1714]

_Ulyss._ Now, great Thetis' son![1715]

_Achil._ What are you reading?

_Ulyss._ A strange fellow here 95
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[1716] 100
Heat them, and they retort that heat again
To the first giver.'[1717]

_Achil._ This is not strange, Ulysses.
The beauty that is borne here in the face[1718]
The bearer knows not, but commends itself[1719]
To others' eyes: nor doth the eye itself,[1720] 105
That most pure spirit of sense, behold itself,[1720]
Not going from itself; but eye to eye opposed[1721]
Salutes each other with each other's form:[1722]
For speculation turns not to itself,
Till it hath travell'd and is married there[1723] 110
Where it may see itself. This is not strange at all.[1724]

_Ulyss._ I do not strain at the position--[1725]
It is familiar--but at the author's drift;[1726]
Who in his circumstance expressly proves
That no man is the lord of any thing,[1727] 115
Though in and of him there be much consisting,[1728]
Till he communicate his parts to others;
Nor doth he of himself know them for aught
Till he behold them formed in the applause[1729]
Where they're extended; who, like an arch, reverberates[1730] 120
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;[1731]
And apprehended here immediately[1731][1732]
The unknown Ajax.[1731][1733] 125
Heavens, what a man is there! a very horse;[1731][1733]
That has he knows not what. Nature, what things there
are,[1731][1733][1734]
Most abject in regard and dear in use![1731][1733][1735]
What things again most dear in the esteem[1733]
And poor in worth! Now shall we see to-morrow--[1733][1736] 130
An act that very chance doth throw upon him--[1733][1736][1737]
Ajax renown'd. O heavens, what some men do,[1733][1736][1738]
While some men leave to do![1733][1739]
How some men creep in skittish fortune's hall,[1739][1740]
While others play the idiots in her eyes![1739] 135
How one man eats into another's pride,
While pride is fasting in his wantonness![1741]
To see these Grecian lords! Why, even already
They clap the lubber Ajax on the shoulder,
As if his foot were on brave Hector's breast[1742] 140
And great Troy shrieking.[1743]

_Achil._ I do believe it; for they pass'd by me[1744][1745]
As misers do by beggars, neither gave to me[1744]
Good word nor look: what, are my deeds forgot?[1744][1746]

_Ulyss._ Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back 145
Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,
A great-sized monster of ingratitudes:[1747]
Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd[1748]
As fast as they are made, forgot as soon[1748]
As done: perseverance, dear my lord,[1748][1749][1750] 150
Keeps honour bright: to have done, is to hang[1749]
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail[1751]
In monumental mockery. Take the instant way;[1752]
For honour travels in a strait so narrow,
Where one but goes abreast: keep then the path;[1753] 155
For emulation hath a thousand sons
That one by one pursue: if you give way,
Or hedge aside from the direct forthright,[1754]
Like to an enter'd tide they all rush by
And leave you hindmost:[1755][1756][1757] 160
Or, like a gallant horse fall'n in first rank,[1755][1756][1757][1758]
Lie there for pavement to the abject rear,[1755][1756][1759][1760][1761]
O'er-run and trampled on: then what they do in present,[1755][1756][1760]
Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours;[1755][1762]
For time is like a fashionable host[1755] 165
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand,[1755]
And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly,[1755][1763]
Grasps in the comer: welcome ever smiles,[1755][1764]
And farewell goes out sighing. O, let not virtue seek[1755][1765][1766]
Remuneration for the thing it was;[1755][1766][1767] 170
For beauty, wit,[1755][1767]
High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,[1755][1768]
Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all[1755][1769]
To envious and calumniating time.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin; 175
That all with one consent praise new-born gawds,
Though they are made and moulded of things past,
And give to dust that is a little gilt[1770][1771]
More laud than gilt o'er-dusted.[1770][1772]
The present eye praises the present object: 180
Then marvel not, thou great and complete man,
That all the Greeks begin to worship Ajax;[1773]
Since things in motion sooner catch the eye[1774]
Than what not stirs. The cry went once on thee,[1775]
And still it might, and yet it may again, 185
If thou wouldst not entomb thyself alive
And case thy reputation in thy tent,
Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late,
Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves,[1776]
And drave great Mars to faction.

_Achil._ Of this my privacy[1777] 190
I have strong reasons.

_Ulyss._ But 'gainst your privacy[1778]
The reasons are more potent and heroical:
'Tis known, Achilles, that you are in love
With one of Priam's daughters.

_Achil._ Ha! known?[1779]

_Ulyss._ Is that a wonder? 195
The providence that's in a watchful state
Knows almost every grain of Plutus' gold,[1780]
Finds bottom in the uncomprehensive deeps,[1781]
Keeps place with thought and almost like the gods[1782][1783]
Does thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles.[1782][1784] 200
There is a mystery, with whom relation[1785]
Durst never meddle, in the soul of state;
Which hath an operation more divine
Than breath or pen can give expressure to:[1786]
All the commerce that you have had with Troy 205
As perfectly is ours as yours, my lord;
And better would it fit Achilles much
To throw down Hector than Polyxena:
But it must grieve young Pyrrhus now at home,
When fame shall in our islands sound her trump;[1787] 210
And all the Greekish girls shall tripping sing
'Great Hector's sister did Achilles win,
But our great Ajax bravely beat down him.'[1788]
Farewell, my lord: I as your lover speak;
The fool slides o'er the ice that you should break. [_Exit._[1789] 215

_Patr._ To this effect, Achilles, have I moved you:[1790]
A woman impudent and mannish grown
Is not more loathed than an effeminate man
In time of action. I stand condemn'd for this;[1791]
They think my little stomach to the war 220
And your great love to me restrains you thus:
Sweet, rouse yourself, and the weak wanton Cupid[1792]
Shall from your neck unloose his amorous fold,[1793]
And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane,[1794]
Be shook to air.[1795]

_Achil._ Shall Ajax fight with Hector? 225

_Patr._ Ay, and perhaps receive much honour by him.

_Achil._ I see my reputation is at stake;
My fame is shrewdly gored.[1796]

_Patr._ O, then, beware;
Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves:
Omission to do what is necessary 230
Seals a commission to a blank of danger;
And danger, like an ague, subtly taints
Even then when we sit idly in the sun.[1797]

_Achil._ Go call Thersites hither, sweet Patroclus:
I'll send the fool to Ajax and desire him 235
To invite the Trojan lords after the combat
To see us here unarm'd: I have a woman's longing,[1798]
An appetite that I am sick withal,
To see great Hector in his weeds of peace;[1799]
To talk with him, and to behold his visage, 240
Even to my full of view.--A labour saved!

_Enter_ THERSITES.[1800]

_Ther._ A wonder![1801]

_Achil._ What?

_Ther._ Ajax goes up and down the field, asking for himself.

_Achil._ How so? 245

_Ther._ He must fight singly to-morrow with Hector,
and is so prophetically proud of an heroical cudgelling
that he raves in saying nothing.

_Achil._ How can that be?

_Ther._ Why, a' stalks up and down like a peacock,--a[1802] 250
stride and a stand: ruminates like an hostess that hath no
arithmetic but her brain to set down her reckoning: bites his
lip with a politic regard, as who should say 'There were wit
in this head, an 'twould out:' and so there is; but it lies as[1803]
coldly in him as fire in a flint, which will not show without 255
knocking. The man's undone for ever; for if Hector break
not his neck i' the combat, he'll break't himself in vainglory.[1804]
He knows not me: I said 'Good morrow, Ajax;'
and he replies 'Thanks, Agamemnon.' What think you of[1805]
this man, that takes me for the general? He's grown a very 260
land-fish, languageless, a monster. A plague of opinion! a
man may wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin.

_Achil._ Thou must be my ambassador to him, Thersites.[1806]

_Ther._ Who, I? why, he'll answer nobody; he professes
not answering: speaking is for beggars; he wears his tongue 265
in's arms. I will put on his presence: let Patroclus make
demands to me, you shall see the pageant of Ajax.[1807]

_Achil._ To him, Patroclus: tell him I humbly desire
the valiant Ajax to invite the most valorous Hector to[1808]
come unarmed to my tent, and to procure safe-conduct for 270
his person of the magnanimous and most illustrious[1809]
six-or-seven-times-honoured captain-general of the Grecian army,[1810]
Agamemnon, et cetera. Do this.[1811]

_Patr._ Jove bless great Ajax!

_Ther._ Hum! 275

_Patr._ I come from the worthy Achilles,--

_Ther._ Ha!

_Patr._ Who most humbly desires you to invite Hector
to his tent,--

_Ther._ Hum! 280

_Patr._ And to procure safe-conduct from Agamemnon.

_Ther._ Agamemnon?

_Patr._ Ay, my lord.

_Ther._ Ha!

_Patr._ What say you to 't? 285

_Ther._ God be wi' you, with all my heart.[1812]

_Patr._ Your answer, sir.

_Ther._ If to-morrow be a fair day, by eleven of the[1813]
clock it will go one way or other: howsoever, he shall pay
for me ere he has me. 290

_Patr._ Your answer, sir.

_Ther._ Fare you well, with all my heart.[1814]

_Achil._ Why, but he is not in this tune, is he?

_Ther._ No, but he's out o' tune thus. What music will[1815][1816]
be in him when Hector has knocked out his brains, I know[1816] 295
not; but, I am sure, none, unless the fiddler Apollo get
his sinews to make catlings on.

_Achil._ Come, thou shalt bear a letter to him straight.

_Ther._ Let me bear another to his horse; for that's the[1817]
more capable creature. 300

_Achil._ My mind is troubled like a fountain stirr'd,
And I myself see not the bottom of it.

[_Exeunt Achilles and Patroclus._[1818]

_Ther._ Would the fountain of your mind were clear
again, that I might water an ass at it! I had rather be a
tick in a sheep than such a valiant ignorance. [_Exit._[1819] 305

FOOTNOTES:

[1526] ACT III. SCENE I.] Rowe.

Troy.] Rowe.

A room ...] Capell. Paris's Apartments in the Palace. Theobald.

Enter ...] Ff. Enter Pandarus. Q.

[1527] _you not_] Q. _not you_ Ff.

[1528] Serv.] Ser. Ff. Man. Q (and throughout the scene).

[1529] _I mean?_] Ff. _I meane._ Q.

[1530] _noble_] Ff. _notable_ Q.

[1531] _You are_] _Are you_ Hanmer.

_grace._] Warburton. _grace?_ Q Ff.

[1532] _titles_] Q F₃ F₄. _title_ F₁ F₂.

[Music within.] Capell. Musicke sounds within. Ff (after _Exeunt,_ at the end of the previous Act). Omitted in Q. Put at the beginning of this scene by Rowe (ed. 2).

[1533] _but_] om. Pope (ed. 2).

[1534] _friend_] om. Q.

[1535] _too ... art too_] Ff. _to ... to_ Q.

[1536] _who is_] Q. _who's_ Ff.

[1537] _invisible_] _visible_ Hanmer. _invincible_ Becket conj.

[1538] _soul._] _soul,_--Edd. (Globe Ed.)

[1539] _not you_] Q. _you not_ Ff.

[1540] _that_] Ff. om. Q.

[1541] _Cressida_] Ff. _Cressid_ Q.

[1542] _there's_] Ff. _theirs_ Q.

[1543] Enter Paris....] Theobald. Enter Paris and Hellen. Q. Enter ... Helena. Ff.

[1544] _lord_] Q F₄. _L._ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[1545] _broke_] Q F₁. _broken_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1546] _Nell, he_] _Nel,_ (in italics) _he_ F₁ F₄. _Nel._ (in italics) _he_ Q F₂ F₃. Hel. _He_ Anon. conj.

[1547] _in fits_] _in jest_ Heath conj. _it fits_ Nares conj.

[1548] _hear_] _heare_ Ff. _here_ Q.

[1549] _Go to ... you_] As prose first by Capell. Two lines in Q Ff.

[1550] _You shall ... head_] As prose first by Hanmer. Two lines in Q Ff.

[1551] _i' faith._] _I faith--_ Q Ff.

[1552] _And ... offence_] Continued to Pandarus by Hanmer. Given to Paris by Capell.

[1553] Pan. _Nay ... excuse._] Q Ff. _Nay ... no, no--_ Pan. _And ... excuse._ Rowe. Hel. _Nay ... no, no._ Paris. _And ... excuse._ Capell.

[1554] _supper, you_] _super. You_ Q.

_his_] Q F₁ F₄. _this_ F₂ F₃.

[1555] _queen, my_] _Queenem, y_ Q.

[1556] Par.] Pan. Steevens (1778).

_where_] _were_ F₂.

[1557] Pan. _What ... Cressida._] Pan. _What ... queen?_ Par. [To Helen.] _My ... you._ Pan. [To Paris.] _You ... sups._ Helen. _I'll ... deposer Cressida._ Ritson conj.

[1558] _My ... you._] Transposed by Capell to follow _twain_, line 95.

_My ... sups._] Par. _My ... you._ Pan. _You ... sups._ Thirlby conj.

[1559] _You ... sups._] Continued to Pandarus by Hanmer. Given to Helen in Q Ff. Hel. _You must know ... sups._ Johnson (1771).

[1560] Par.] Q F₁ F₃ F₄. Pan. F₂. Helen Rann (Steevens conj.)

_I'll lay my life_] Q. Omitted in Ff.

_my disposer_] _his disposer_ Pye conj.

[1561] _disposer_] _dispouser_ Warburton. _deposer_ Rann (Steevens conj.) _despiser_ Malone conj. _dispraiser_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[1562] _make_] Ff. _makes_ Q. _make's_ Capell conj.

[1563] _poor disposer's_] Ff. _disposers_ Q.

[1564] _spy._] _spie._ Ff. _spie?_ Q. _spy--_ Rowe.

[1565] _instrument. Now_] Johnson. _instrument, now_ Q. _instrument now_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _instrument now,_ F₄.

[1566] _done._] F₃ F₄. _done?_ Q F₁ F₂.

[1567] _horribly_] Q. _horrible_ Ff.

[1568] _twain._] _tawine._ Q. _twain.--My cousin will fall out with you._ Capell.

[1569] _now. By_] _now: by_ Ff. _now by_ Q.

_lord_] Ff. _lad_ Q.

[1570] _may._] Q Ff. _may--_ Rowe.

[1571] _In good ... so_] Ff. Omitted in Q.

[Sings.] Song. Capell. om. Q Ff.

[1572] _Love ... more!_] As prose by Johnson. As part of the Song in Q Ff.

_still more_] Ff. _still love, still more_ Q (followed by Johnson).

[1573] _For, O, ... doe_] Two lines in Ff. One in Q.

[1574] _buck_] _bucke_ Q F₁. _both bucke_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1575] _The ... wounds_] As in Pope. One line in Q Ff.

[1576] _shaft confounds,_] Johnson. _shafts confound_ Q. _shaft confounds_ Ff.

[1577] _Oh! oh!_] _Oh ho_ Q Ff.

[1578] _Yet ... kill_] _But that which seems to kill_ Johnson conj.

_the wound_] Q F₁. _they wound_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _a wound_ Collier MS.

[1579] _turn_] _turn,_ Pope.

[1580] _Heigh-ho!_] As prose first by Rann. As part of the song in Q Ff.

[1581] _doves, love_] _doves' liver_ Anon. conj.

[1582] _is_] _are_ Rowe.

[1583] Pan. _Is ... to-day?_] Hel. _Is ... vipers?_ Pan. _Sweet ... to-day?_ Ritson conj.

[1584] _deeds?_] Rowe. _deedes,_ Q Ff. _deeds,--_ Capell.

[1585] _who's afield_] Rowe. _who's a field_ F₄. _whose a field_ Q F₁ F₂ F₃.

[1586] _to-day_] _to-night_ Reed (1803, 1813, 1821).

[1587] [Exit.] Rowe. om. Q Ff.

[A retreat sounded.] Capell. Sound a retreat. Q Ff.

[1588] _They're_] Ff. _Their_ Q.

_field_] Ff. _the field_ Q.

[1589] _these_] Ff. _this_ Q.

[1590] _his_] Q F₁. _your_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1591] Par.] Q. Omitted in Ff.

_Sweet, above ... thee._] Pope. _Sweete, above ... thee._ Ff. _Sweet above ... her?_ Q. _Sweet, above thought, I love thee._ Rowe (continuing the speech to Helen). _Sweet. Above ... her._ Johnson.

[1592] SCENE II.] Capell. SCENE III. Pope. om. Q Ff.

An orchard....] Theobald. Pandarus' garden. Capell.

Enter ... meeting.] Enter a Servant, and Pandarus, meeting. Capell. Enter. Pandarus Troylus, man. Q. Enter Pandarus and Troylus Man (Troilus F₃. Troilus's F₄) Ff.

[1593] _How now_] _Now_ Pope, reading as verse.

[1594] _he stays for_] Ff. _stayes for_ Q. _he stays_ Pope. _he prays_ Warburton.

[1595] [Exit Boy.] Exit Servant. Capell. om. Q Ff.

[1596] _Like_] Ff. _Like to_ Q.

[1597] _those_] Ff. _these_ Q.

[1598] _O ... Pandarus_] Ff. _O ... Pandar_ Q. _Gentle Pandarus_ Pope.

[1599] _I'll_] _I will_ Pope.

[Exit.] Exit Pandarus. Ff. om. Q.

[1600] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.

[1601] _sense_] _senses_ Capell conj.

[1602] _palates taste_] _palate tasts_ Hanmer.

[1603] _repured_] Q. _reputed_ Ff. See note (VIII).

[1604] _Swounding_] _Sounding_ Q Ff. _Swooning_ Pope.

[1605] _Too subtle-potent_] Theobald. _To subtill, potent_ Q. _Too subtile, potent_ Ff.

_tuned too_] _tun’d to_ Q. _and too_ Ff.

[1606] _ruder_] _rude_ Pope.

[1607] Re-enter ...] Enter ... Ff. om. Q.

[1608] _sprite_] Ff. _spirite_ Q.

[1609] _fetch_] _bring_ Pope.

[1610] _as short_] Q. _so short_ Ff.

[Exit.] Exit Pand. Ff. om. Q.

[1611] _unawares_] _unwares_ Q. _unawarres_ F₂.

[1612] Re-enter ...] Capell. Enter pandar and Cressid. Q. Enter Pandarus and Cressida. Ff.

[1613] SCENE IV. Pope.

_Come ... blush?_] Prose in Pope. Verse in Q Ff.

[1614] _an_] Capell. _and_ Q Ff. _if_ Pope.

[1615] _fills_] _filles_ Q. _fils_ F₁. _files_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1616] _the_] _thy_ Hanmer.

[1617] _as_] _has_ Rowe, followed by Pope. _as good as_ Hanmer. _at_ Heath conj.

[1618] _o'the_] _ath'_ Q. _'oth'_ F₁ F₂. _o' th'_ F₃ F₄. _of_ Pope.

[1619] _Here's 'In-witness ... inter-changeably'--_] _here's, in witness ... interchangeably--_ Theobald, _here's in witnesse ... interchangeably._ Q Ff.

[1620] [Exit.] Exit Pand. F₂ F₃ F₄. om. Q F₁.

[1621] _Cressida_] Ff. _Cressed_ Q.

[1622] _grant--_] Pope. _graunt?_ Q. _grant?_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _grant;_ F₄. _grant;--_ Rowe.

[1623] _What ... lady_] _What dreg espies my too curious sweet lady_ Hanmer.

[1624] _fears_] F₃. _teares_ Q F₁ F₂. _tears_ F₄.

[1625] _of_] om. Reed (1803, 1813, 1821), Harness, Knight.

_cherubins_] _cherubims_ Capell.

[1626] _that_] _which_ Pope.

_safer_] Q F₂ F₃ F₄. _safe._ F₁.

[1627] _worse_] _worst_ Capell.

[1628] _O, let ... monster._] Printed as prose first by Pope. As two lines, the first ending _feare,_ in Q Ff.

[1629] _Nor_] Q F₂ F₃ F₄. _Not_ F₁.

_neither?_] Ff. _neither._ Q.

[1630] _our_] Q F₁. _their_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1631] _is_] om. Q.

_monstruosity_] _monstrositie_ F₃. _monstrosity_ F₄.

[1632] _merit crown it: no perfection_] Ff (_crowne it:_ F₁ F₂). _merit louer part no affection_ Q. _merit cover it: no perfection_ Delius conj.

[1633] _for his truth_] _'fore his truth_ Hanmer.

[1634] _Re-enter ..._] _Enter ..._ Ff. om. Q.]

[1635] SCENE V. Pope.

[1636] _are wooed_] _bee woed_ Q.

[1637] _Boldness ... months._] As verse first by Rowe. As prose in Q Ff.

[1638] _glance that ever--pardon_] Rowe. _glance; that ever pardon_ Q F₁. _glance that ever: pardon_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1639] _not, till now,_] _not till now_ Ff. _till now not_ Q.

[1640] _grown_] F₃ F₄. _growne_ F₂. _grone_ Q. _grow_ F₁.

[1641] _we_] Q F₁. _the_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1642] _See, see_] _See_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[1643] _Cunning_] Pope. _Comming_ Q F₁ F₂ F₃. _Coming_ F₄.

_from_] _for_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[1644] _My very soul of counsel_] Q. _My soule of counsell from me_ Ff.

[1645] [Kissing. Rowe.

[1646] _sweet_] _fair_ Capell.

[1647] _an_] Pope. _and_ Q Ff.

_morning--_] F₃ F₄. _morning._ Q F₁ F₂.

[1648] _Pray ... try:_] Printed as in Q Ff. As three lines, ending _lady? ... shun ... try:_ by Steevens (1793).

[1649] _cannot_] _can't_ S. Walker conj. reading _Sir ... yourself_ as one line.

[1650] _go and try_] _go try_ Pope. _go in, my lord, and try_ Steevens conj.

[1651] _kind of self resides_] _kind self that resides_ Collier MS.

_resides_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _recids_ Q. _recides_ F₁.

[1652] _I would ... speak._] Q. _Where is my wit? I would be gone: I speake I know not what._ Ff.

[1653] _that speak_] _that speakes_ F₁.

[1654] _show_] Q F₃. _shew_ F₁ F₂ F₄. _shew'd_ or _show'd_ Capell conj.

[1655] _you are ... you_] _we're ... we_ Johnson conj. _you are not ... you_ Keightley.

[1656] _Or else_] _A sign_ Hanmer. _And then_ Capell. _And eke_ or _And so_ Anon. conj.

_not_] om. Malone conj.

_for_] om. Pope.

[1657] _that_] _and_ Rowe.

[1658] _As_] Q F₁. _And_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1659] _aye_] _age_ Q.

[1660] _beauty’s_] Capell. _beauties_ Q Ff.

[1661] _Or_] _Oh_ Hanmer.

[1662] _winnowed_] Q Ff. _winnow’d_ Pope.

_purity_] _puriritie_ F₁.

[1663] _When ... right_] Omitted by Pope.

_shall_] _should_ F₄.

_right!_] _right,_ Q. _right:_ F₁. _right?_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1664] _to come_] _come_ Steevens (1778), a misprint.

[1665] _truths_] _trueth_ Q.

[1666] _Want similes_] F₃. _Wants simele's_ Q. _Wants similes_ F₁. _Want smiles_ F₂. _Want similies_ F₄.

_similes, truth_] _similes of truth_ Rann (Tyrwhitt conj.)

[1667] _plantage ... moon_] _planets to the moon_ Pope. _planets to their moons_ Theobald (Warburton conj. withdrawn). _floodage to the moon_ Heath conj.

[1668] _Yet_] om. Q.

[1669] _truth’s authentic author_] _truth authentick, ever_ Warburton.

[1670] _up_] om. Capell conj.

[1671] _When_] _O then, when_ Anon. apud Rann. conj.

_and hath_] _or hath_ Q.

[1672] _they've_] _they'ave_ Ff. _th' have_ Q.

[1673] _wind, or_] Q. _as winde, as_ Ff. _wind, as_ Pope.

[1674] _or wolf_] Q. _as wolfe_ Ff.

[1675] _witness. Here_] Rowe. _witnes here_ Q. _witnesse here_ F₁. _witnesse, here_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

_hand; here my cousin's._] Johnson. _hand, here ... cozens,_ Q. _hand: here ... cousins,_ Ff.

[1676] _one to_] _to one_ F₄.

_pains_] F₃ F₄. _paines_ F₁ F₂. _paine_ Q.

[1677] _constant_] _inconstant_ Hanmer.

_Cressids_] _Cressida's_ F₄.

[1678] _chamber with a bed; which bed_] Hanmer. _chamber, which bed_ Q Ff. _bed-chamber, which bed_ Theobald. _chamber, and a bed; which bed_ Capell. _chamber, wherein is a bed, which bed_ Singer. _chamber, whose bed_ Grant White (Dyce conj.) _bed-chamber_ Collier conj.

[1679] [Exeunt ...] Exeunt. Q. om. Ff.

[1680] _Pandar_] _Pander_ Q. _and Pander_ Ff.

[Exit.] Q. Exeunt. Ff.

[1681] SCENE III.] Capell. SCENE II. Rowe. SCENE VI. Pope.

The Grecian camp.] Rowe.

Flourish.] Florish. F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄.

Ajax] Theobald. om. Q Ff.

[1682] _you_] om. Q.

[1683] _Appear_] _Appeal_ Collier (Collier MS.)

_to your mind_] Ff. _to mind_ Q. _to you_ Pope.

[1684] _through the sight ... to love_] _to the sight ... through Jove_ Jackson conj.

_things to love,_] Q F₁ F₂ F₃. _things to come,_ F₄. _things, to Jove_ Johnson. _things, to love_ Steevens conj. _things above,_ Collier, ed. 2 (Mitford conj.) _things to Jove,_ Dyce. _things from Jove,_ Staunton (Becket conj.)

[1685] _possession_] _possessions_ Capell.

[1686] _sequestering ... all_] _sequestred from all_ Pope.

[1687] _into_] _unto_ Capell.

[1688] _wrest_] _rest_ Hanmer (Theobald conj.)

[1689] _his_] _this_ Rowe.

[1690] _of_] _o'th'_ F₄.

[1691] _pain_] _pay_ Hanmer. _payment_ Keightley. _poise_ Anon. conj.

_Diomedes_] _Diomede_ Hanmer.

[1692] _Withal_] _With all_ F₄.

[1693] [Exeunt ...] Capell. Exit Q Ff.

Enter ... before ...] Theobald. Enter ... in ... Ff. Achilles and Patro stand in their tent. Q.

[1694] _pass_] _passe_ Q. _to passe_ Ff.

[1695] _unplausive_] Ff. _unpaulsive_ Q.

_bent on_] Pope. _bent? why turnd on_ Q. _bent? why turn'd on_ Ff.

[1696] _derision_] Q F₁ F₂. _decision_ F₃ F₄.

[1697] _your_] _our_ Rowe.

[1698] [Exeunt ...] Capell. om. Q Ff.

[1699] [Exit.] Exit Men. Capell. om. Q Ff.

[1700] _Ha?_] Pope. _Ha:_ Q. _Ha._ Ff.

[1701] _Good morrow_] _Good morrow, Ajax_ Keightley (Steevens conj.) _I say, good morrow_ Steevens conj.

[1702] [Exit.] Exit Ajax. Capell. Exeunt. Q Ff.

[1703] _What ... Achilles?_] One line in Q. Prose in Ff.

[1704] _by_] Q F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1705] _To come ... altars_] As in Rowe (ed. 2). One line in Q Ff.

[1706] _used_] _use_ S. Walker conj.

[1707] _simply_] Q F₁. _simple_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1708] _any_] om. Pope.

_but honour for_] Q. but _honour'd for_ F₁. _but honor'd by_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _but is honour'd by_ Pope. _but honour by_ Johnson. _but's honour'd for_ Capell. _but for_ Seymour conj.

[1709] _riches, and favour_] Q F₁. _riches, favour_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1710] _love_] _loves_ Keightley (Seymour conj.)

[1711] _Do one_] Hanmer. _Doth one_ Q F₁ F₃ F₄. _Doth on_ F₂. _Do not_ Seymour conj. _Do th'one_ Anon. conj.

[1712] _Do ... fall_] _Doth ... fall_ as one line in Q.

[1713] _not worth in me such_] _in me not worth that_ Rowe.

[1714] _I'll ... Ulysses_] As in Capell. One line in Q Ff.

[1715] _How now_] _Now_ Pope.

_great_] om. Pope.

[Looking up from his book. Collier, ed. 2.

[1716] _shining_] Ff. _ayming_ Q.

[1717] _giver_] Ff. _givers_ Q.

[1718] _borne_] Q F₁ F₂. _born_ F₃ F₄.

[1719] _but_] _but it_ Hanmer.

[1720] _To ... behold itself_] Q. Omitted in Ff.

[1721] _eye to eye_] _eyes_ Pope.

[1722] _Salutes_] _Salute_ F₄.

[1723] _married_] Q Ff. _mirror'd_ Singer (Singer MS. and Collier MS.) _arrived_ Keightley.

[1724] _at all_] om. Pope.

[1725] _at_] Q. _it at_ Ff.

[1726] _but at_] _but_ Pope.

[1727] _man_] _may_ F₁.

[1728] _be_] Q. _is_ Ff.

[1729] _formed_] Q Ff. _form'd_ Johnson.

_the_] Q. _th'_ Ff. _their_ Johnson.

[1730] _they're_] F₃ F₄. _they are_ F₁ F₂. _th' are_ Q.

_who_] Q Ff. _which_ Rowe.

_reverberates_] _reverb'rates_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _reverb'rate_ Q F₁. See note (IX).

[1731] See note (X).

[1732] _immediately_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _immediately,_ Q. _immediately:_ F₁.

[1733] _The unknown ... to do!_] Keightley ends the lines _there!... what ... regard, ... dear ... we ... chance ... heavens ... to do!_

[1734] _what. Nature,_] F₁. _what Nature,_ F₂ F₃ F₄. See note (X).

_there_] om. Rowe.

[1735] _abject_] Ff. _obiect_ Q.

[1736] _to-morrow--An ... him--Ajax renown'd._] Edd. _to morrow, An ... him Aiax renown'd?_ Q. _to morrow, An ... him? Aiax renown'd?_ Ff. _to morrow, An ... him: Ajax renown'd!_ Rowe. _to-morrow An ... him, Ajax renown'd._ Capell.

[1737] _An act_] Q F₁ F₂. _And act_ F₃ F₄. _by an act_ Keightley (Anon. ap. Rann conj.)

[1738] _Ajax renown'd_] _Ajax' renown_ Malone conj. (withdrawn).

[1739] _While ... eyes_] S. Walker would end the lines at _creep ... play ... eyes._

[1740] _creep_] _sleep_ Hanmer.

[1741] _fasting_] Q. _feasting_ Ff.

[1742] _on_] _one_ Q.

[1743] _shrieking_] _shriking_ Q. _shrinking_ Ff.

[1744] _I do ... forgot?_] Arranged as by Capell. The lines end _it, ... beggars, ... looke: ... forgot?_ in Q Ff.

[1745] _I do believe it_] _This I do believe_ Pope.

_for they_] _They_ Pope.

[1746] _look_] Q F₁. _good look_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1747] _great ... ingratitudes_] _great sized muster of ingratitudes_ Singer conj. _great portmanteau of ingratitudes_ or _great scythed monster of ingratitude_ Anon. conj. (N. and Q.)

_ingratitudes_] _ingratitude_ Hanmer.

[1748] _Those ... As done_] Arranged as by Pope. Lines 148, 149 end at _past, ... made,_ in Q Ff.

[1749] _perseverance ... bright_] _perseverance keeps honor bright_ Pope (followed by Capell), ending the lines _bright: ... fashion, ... mockery._

[1750] _perseverance_] _'tis perseverance_ Seymour conj.

_lord,_] _lord, it is_ Keightley. _lord, perseverance_ Anon. conj.

[1751] _a rusty_] _rusty_ Pope.

_mail_] _male_ Q Ff.

[1752] _Take ... way_] Omitted by Pope. _Then, dear my lord, take you the instant way_ Capell.

[1753] _one_] _on_ Q.

[1754] _hedge_] Ff. _turne_ Q. _edge_ Collier.

[1755] _And leave ... all_] Keightley ends the lines _horse ... pavement ... on ... yours ... like ... shakes ... arms ... comer ... sighing ... remuneration ... birth, ... love, ... all._

[1756] _hindmost: Or ... trampled on: then_] _him, most, then_ Q (omitting _Or ... on_).

[1757] _hindmost; Or like a_] _hindermost; and there you lye Like to a_ Pope.

[1758] _first_] _the first_ Keightley.

[1759] _Lie_] _lies_ Keightley.

[1760] _Lie there ... O'er-run and_] Arranged as in Ff. _For pavement to the abject, near o'errun And_ Pope. _You're left ... O'er-run and_ Seymour conj.

[1761] _abject rear,_] Hanmer, reading the rest with Pope and Theobald. _abject, neere_ F₁ F₂. _abject, near_ F₃ F₄. _abject near,_ Theobald.

[1762] _in past_] Ff. _in passe_ Q.

[1763] _And with his_] _And with_ Rowe (ed. 2). _But with his_ Pope.

[1764] _Grasps in the comer_] _Grasps the in-comer_ Hanmer.

_welcome_] Pope. _the welcome_ Q Ff.

[1765] _farewell_] Q. _farewels_ F₁ F₂ F₄. _farewells_ F₃.

_O,_] om. Q.

[1766] _virtue seek Remuneration_] _virtue Seek remuneration_ Hanmer.

[1767] _Remuneration ... For beauty, wit_] Arranged as by Steevens (1793). One line in Q Ff.

[1768] _vigour of bone,_] Omitted by Pope, reading _For beauty, ... service,_ as one line.

[1769] _charity_] _and charity_ Keightley.

[1770] _And ... o'er-dusted_] Put in the margin by Pope.

[1771] _give_] Theobald (Thirlby conj.) _goe_ Q F₁ F₂. _go_ F₃ F₄. _shew_ Johnson.

[1772] _than gilt_] _then guilt_ Q F₁ F₂. _in gilt_ F₃ F₄. _than they will give to gold_ Hanmer. _than gold_ Thirlby conj.

_o'er-dusted_] _o'er-dusted e'er is given_ Keightley.

[1773] _Greeks_] _Greeces_ F₂.

[1774] _sooner catch_] Q. _begin to catch_ F₁. _'gin to catch_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _quicklier catch_ Collier MS.

[1775] _not stirs_] Ff. _stirs not_ Q.

_once on_] Q. _out on_ Ff. _once for_ Pope.

[1776] _emulous missions_] _emulations_ Keightley conj. _emulous scissions_ Anon. conj.

[1777] _Of this_] _Of_ Pope.

[1778] _But 'gainst_] _'Gainst_ Pope.

[1779] _known?_] _say you known?_ Hanmer. _is't known?_ Steevens conj. _known, say you?_ Seymour conj. _what, known?_ Mitford conj.

[1780] _every grain of Plutus' gold,_] Malone (Steevens conj.) _every graine of Plutoes gold;_ Ff (_Pluto's_ F₃ F₄). _every thing,_ Q.

[1781] _deeps_] Ff. _depth_ Q. _deep_ Rowe.

[1782] _Keeps ... cradles_] S. Walker would end the lines _thought, ... unveil ... cradles_.

[1783] _place_] _pace_ Hanmer.

[1784] _Does thoughts_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Do thoughts_ Q. _Doe thoughts_ F₁. _Does ev'n our thoughts_ Pope. _Does even those thoughts_ Capell. _Does thoughts themselves_ or _Does infant thoughts_ Malone conj. _Doth thoughts_ Anon. conj.

_dumb cradles_] _dumb crudities_ Collier (Collier MS.) _dim crudities_ Collier conj. _dumb oracles_ Staunton conj. (withdrawn). _dumb orat'ries_ Nicholson conj. _dumb cradles laid_ Keightley. _dumb radicles_ Bullock conj. _dim particles_ Id. conj. (withdrawn). _dumb characters_ Anon. conj.

[1785] _whom_] _which_ Pope.

[1786] _or pen_] _of pen_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[1787] _our islands_] _our iland_ Q. _her Iland_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _her island_ F₄. _his island_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[1788] _him_] _Hector_ Pope.

[1789] [Exit.] Pope. om. Q Ff.

[1790] SCENE VIII. Pope.

[1791] _action_] _act_ Pope.

[1792] _Sweet,_] _O,_ Pope. _Swift,_ Collier (Collier MS.)

_wanton Cupid_] _wanton, Cupid_ S. Walker conj.

[1793] _unloose_] _enloose_ Seymour conj.

[1794] _a_] om. Q.

[1795] _air_] _ayre_ Q. _ayrie ayre_ F₁ F₂. _airie air_ F₃. _airy air_ F₄. _very air_ Collier MS.

[1796] _shrewdly_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _shrowdly_ Q F₁.

[1797] _we_] Ff. _they_ Q.

[1798] _here_] om. Mitford conj.

_unarm'd_] om. Pope.

[1799] _his_] Q F₁. _the_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[1800] Enter Thersites.] Q. After line 239, in Ff.

[1801] SCENE IX. Pope.

[1802] _a'_] _a_ Q. _he_ Ff.

[1803] _this head_] Q. _his head_ Ff.

_an_] Capell. _and_ Q Ff. _if_ Pope.

[1804] _break't_] Ff. _breakt_ Q.

[1805] _replies_] _replied_ Hanmer.

[1806] _to him_] om. Q.

[1807] _demands_] Q. _his demands_ Ff.

[1808] _most_] Ff. om. Q.

[1809] _magnanimous_] Q F₄. _magnanimious_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[1810] _captain-general_] Hanmer. _Captaine Generall_ Q. _Captaine, Generall_ Ff.

_Grecian_] om. Q.

[1811] _et cetera._] _&c._ Ff. om. Q.

[1812] _be wi' you_] Rowe. _buy you_ Q F₁ F₂ F₃. _b'you_ F₄.

[1813] _eleven of the_] _a leven of the_ Q. _eleven a_ Ff.

[1814] _you_] Ff. _yee_ Q.

[1815] _he's out o' tune_] _he's out a tune_ Ff. _out of tune_ Q.

[1816] _will be in him_] Q F₁. _will be in_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _he will be in_ Rowe.

[1817] _bear_] Q. _carry_ Ff.

[1818] [Exeunt ...] Capell. Exit. Rowe. om. Q Ff.

[1819] [Exit.] Capell. Exeunt. Rowe. om. Q Ff.