Fierce to their skill, and to their fierceness valiant; Pan. Well, I have told you enough of this: for my part, I'll not meddle nor make no further. He, that will have a cake out of the wheat, must tarry the grinding. Troi. Have I not tarry'd? Pan. Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the boulting. Troi, Have I not tarry'd? Pan. Ay, the boulting; but you must tarry the leavening. Troi. Still have I tarry'd. Pan. I speak no more than truth, Pan. 'Faith, I'll nqt meddle in't. Let her be as she is: if she be fair, 'tis the better for her; an 5 she be not, she has the mends in her own hands*. Troi. Good Pandarus! How now, Pandarus ? Pan. I have had my labour for my travel; illthought on of her, and ill-thought on of you; gone between and between, but small thanks for 10my labour. Troi. What, art thou angry, Pandarus? what, with me? Pan. Because she is kin to me, therefore she's not so fair as Helen: an she were not kin to me, 15she would be as fair on Friday, as Helen is on Sunday. But what care I? I care not, an she were a black-a-moor; 'tis all one to me. Troi. Say I, she is not fair? Pan. Ay, to the leavening: but here's yet in Troi. Patience herself, what goddess e'er she be, And when fair Cressid comes into my thoughts,-25 thence? Pan. Well, she look'd yester-night fairer than ever I saw her look; or any woman else. Troi. I was about to tell thee,-When my heart, 30 Pan. I do not care whether you do or no. She's fool, to stay behind her father; let her to the Greeks; and so I'll tell her, the next time I see her: for my part, I'll meddle nor make no more in the matter, Troi. Pandarus,— Troi, Sweet Pandarus, Pan. Pray you, speak no more to me; I will leave all as I found it, and there an end. [Exit Pandarus. [Sound alarum. Troi. Peace, you ungracious clamours! peace, rude sounds! Fools on both sides! Helen must needs be fair, But sorrow, that is couch'd in seeming gladness, 35 cannot fight upon this argument; Pan. An her hair were not somewhat darker than Helen's, (well, go to) there were no more comparison between the women,-But, for my part, she is my kinswoman; I would not, as they 40 term it, praise her,-But I would somebody had heard her talk yesterday, as I did. I will not dispraise your sister Cassandra's wit: but Trai. O Pandarus! I tell thee, Pandarus! It is too starv'd a subject for my sword. When I do tell thee, There my hopes lie drown'd, 45 Let it be call'd the wild and wandering flood; Reply not in how many fathoms deep Her eyes, her hair, her cheek, her gait; her voice 50 me, 3 As true thou tell'st me, when I say,-I love her; Fonder for more childish. 160 Ourself, the merchant; and this sailing Pandar, Ene. How now, prince Troilus? wherefore Ene. Troilus, by Menelaus. Troi. Let Paris bleed; 'tis but a scar to scorn; Paris is gor'd with Menelaus' horn, [Alarum. Ene, Hark! what good sport is out of town to-day! 2 To blench is to shrink, start, or fly off.. The meaning is; In comparison with Cressid's haud, the spirit of sense, the utmost degree, the most exquisite power of sensibility, which implies a soft hand, since the sense of touching resides chiefly in the fingers, is hard as the callous and insensible palm of the ploughman. Mr. Steevens thinks this phrase means, She may make the best of a bad bargain, Ττοίς Enter Cressida, and Alexander her servant. Whose height commands as subject all the vale, He chid Andromache, and struck his armourer; Cres. What was his cause of anger? [Greeks Cres. Good; And what of him? Serv. They say he is a very man per se, And stands alone. Cres. So do all men; unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs. Pan. True, he was so; I know the cause too; 10he'll lay about him to-day, I can tell them that: and there's Troilus will not come far behind him; let them take heed of Troilus; I can tell them that too, 15 20 25 30 Serv. This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions; he is as valiant as the lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant: a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours, that his valour is crushed into folly', his folly 35 sauced with discretion: there is no man hath a virtue, that he hath not a glimpse of; nor any man an attaint, but he carries some stain of it: he is melancholy without cause, and merry against the hair: he hath the joints of every thing; but 40 every thing so out of joint, that he is a gouty Briareus, many hands and no use; or purblinded Argus, all eyes and no sight. Cres. But how should this man, that makes me smile, make Hector angry? Sere. They say, he yesterday cop'd Hector in the battle, and struck him down; the disdain and shame whereof bath ever since kept Hector fasting and waking. Enter Pandarus, Cres. Who comes here? Serv. Madam, your uncle Pandarus, Pan. Good morrow, cousin Cressid: What do Pan. What were you talking of, when I came 45 Cres. What, is he angry too? Pan, Who, Troilus? Troilus is the better man Cres. O, Jupiter! there's no comparison. [him. Cres. Ay; if I ever saw him before, and knew Cres. Then you say as I say; for, I am sure, he is not Hector. Pan. No, nor Hector is not Troilus, in some degrees. Cres. 'Tis just to each of them; he is himself. Pan. Hin self! Alas, poor Troilus! I would, he were, Cres. So he is. Cres. "Twould not become him, his own's betPan. You have no judgement, niece: Helen herself swore the other day, that Troilus, for a 50 brown favour, (for so 'tis, I must confess)-Not brown neither. ! To be crushed into folly, is to be confused and mingled with folly, so as that they make one mass together. This is a phrase equivalent to another now in use,-against the grain, Ilium was the palace of Troy. plexion, plexion. I had as lieve, Helen's golden tongue Cres. Then she's a merry Greek, indeed. Pan. Nay, I am sure she does. She came to him the other day into the compass'd window',and, you know, he has not past three or four hairs on his chin. One and fifty hairs, quoth he, and one white. That white hair is my father, and all the rest are his sons. Jupiter! quoth she, which of these hairs is Paris, my husband? The forked one, quoth he; pluck it 5 out, and give it him. But, there was such laughing! and Helen so blush'd, and Paris so chaf'd, and all the rest so laugh'd, that it pass'd. Cres. Indeed, a tapster's arithmetic may soon 10 bring his particulars therein to a total. Pan. Why, he is very young: and yet will he, within three pound, lift as much as his brother Hector. Cres. Is he so young a man, and so old a lifter? 15 Pan. But, to prove to you that Helen loves him;-she came, and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin, Cres. Juno have mercy!-How came it cloven? Pan. Why, you know, 'tis dimpled: I think, 20| his smiling becomes him better than any man in all Phrygia. Cres. O, he smiles valiantly. Pan. Does he not? Cres. O, yes; an 'twere a cloud in autumn. Pan. Why, go to then:-But, to prove to you that Helen loves Troilus, Cres. Troilus will stand to the proof, if you'l prove it so. 25 Pan. Troilus? why he esteems her no more 30 than I esteem an addle egg. Cres. If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' the shell. Pan. I cannot choose but laugh, to think how she tickled his chin;-Indeed, he has a marvellous white hand, I must needs confess. Cres. Without the rack. Pan. And she takes upon her to spy a white hair on his chin. .. Cres. Alas, poor chin! many a wart is richer. Pan. And Cassandra laugh'd. Cres. But there was more temperate fire under the pot of her eyes;-Did her eyes run o'er too Pan. And Hector laugh'd. Cres. At what was all this laughing? 35 40 Cres. So let it now; for it has been a great while going by. Pan. Well, cousin, I told you a thing yesterday; think on 't. Cres. So I do. Pan. I'll be sworn, 'tis true; he will weep you, an 'twere a man born in April. [Sound a retreat. Cres. And I'll spring up in his tears, an 'twere nettle against May. a Pan. Hark, they are coming from the field: Shall we stand up here, and see them, as they pass toward Ilium? good niece, do; sweet niece CresCres. At your pleasure. [sida. Pan. Here, here, here's an excellent place; here we may see most bravely: I'll tell you them all by their names, as they pass by; but mark Troilus above the rest. Aneas passes over the stage. Pan. That's Eneas; Is not that a brave man! he's one of the flowers of Troy, I can tell you; But mark Troilus; you shall see anon. Cres. Who's that? Antenor passes over. Pan. That's Antenor; he has a shrewd wit, I Cres. If he do, the rich shall have more 3. Pan. That's Hector, that, that, look you, that! Cres. O, brave man! Pan. Is 'a not? It does a man's heart goodLook you, what hacks are on his helmet! look Pan. Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied 50 you yonder, do you see? look you there! There's Pan. Swords? any thing, he cares not: an the devil come to him, it's all one: By god's lid, it does one's heart good!-Yonder comes Paris, yonder comes Paris: look ye yonder, niece! Is 't not a gallant man too, is't not?-Why, this is Pan. That's true; make no question of that.60 brave now.-Who said, he came home hurt to Pan. Quoth she, Here's but one and fifty hairs on your chin, and one of them is white, Cres. This is her question. 2 The word lifter means a thief.-We 3 The allusion here is to the word noddy, The compass'd window is the same as the bow-window. still call a person who plunders shops, a shop-lifier. which, as now, did in our author's time, and long before, signify a silly fellow; and may, by its etymology, signify likewise full of nods.--Cressid means, that a noddy shall have more nods. day? 5 Pan. Helenus? no;-yes, he'll fight indifferent 10 well:- marvel, where Troilus is!-Hark; do you not hear the people cry, Troilus?-Helenus is a priest. Cres. What sneaking fellow comes yonder? Troilus passes over. Pan. Where? yonder? that's Deiphobus: 'Tis Troilus! there's a man, niece!-Hem!-Brave Troilus! the prince of chivalry! Cres. Peace, for shame, peace! 15 Pan. Mark him; note him:-O brave Troi-20 lus!-look well upon him, niece; look you, how his sword is bloody'd, and his helm more hack'd than Hector's! And how he looks, and how he goes!-O admirable youth! he ne'er saw three and twenty. Go thy way, Troilus, go thy way; 25 had I a sister were a grace, or a daughter a goddess, he should take his choice. Ŏ admirable man!-Paris? Paris is dirt to him; and, I warrant, Helen, to change, would give an eye to boot. Enter Soldiers, &c. Cres. Here come more. what I would not have hit, I can watch you for telling how I took the blow; unless it swell past hiding, and then it is past watching. Pan. You are such another! Enter Troilus' Boy. Boy. Sir, mylord would instantlyspeakwith you. Boy. At your own house; there he unarms him. Pan. I'll be with you, niece, by-and-by. Pan. Ay, a token from Troilus. Cres. By the same token―you are a bawd.- But more in Troilus thousand fold I see Men prize the thing ungain'd more than it is: Pan. Asses, fools, dolts! chaff and bran, chaff and bran! porridge after meat! I could live and die i' the eyes of Troilus. Ne'er look, ne'er 35 look; the eagles are gone; crows and daws, crows and daws! I had rather be such a man as Troilus, than Agamemnon and all Greece. Cres. There is among the Greeks, Achilles; a better man than Troilus. Pan. Achilles? a dray-man, a porter, a very camel. Cres. Well, well. 40 Agam. Princes, Pan. Well, well?-Why, have you any discretion? have you any eyes? Do you know what a 45 manis? Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man? Cres. Ay, a minc'd man: and then to be bak'd 50 with no date in the pye,-for then the man's date is out. Pan. You are such a woman! one knows not at what ward you lie. Cres. Upon my back, to defend my belly; upon 55 my wit, to defend my wiles; upon my secrecy, to defend mine honesty; my mask, to defend my beauty; and you, to defend all these: and at all these wards I lie, at a thousand watches. Pan. Say one of your watches. Cres. Nay, I'll watch you for that; and that's one of the chiefest of them too: if I cannot ward What grief hath set the jaundice on your cheeks? 00 But the protractive trials of great Jove, To account for the introduction of this quibble, it should be remembered that dates were an ingredient in ancient pastry of almost every kind. 2 i. e. that woman. Content for capacity. In fortune's love for then, the bold and coward, Nest. With due observance of thy godlike seat, Ulyss. Troy, yet upon her basis, had been down, The specialty of rule hath been neglected; Observe degree, priority, and place, But let the ruffian Boreas once enrage of courage, As rous'd with rage, with rage doth sympathize, 25 And posts, like the commandment of a king, In evil mixture, to disorder wander, The unity and married calm of states Ulyss. Agamemnon,- And thou most reverend for thy stretcht-out life,- 45 I give to both your speeches,-which were such, That matter needless, of importless burden, The enterprize is sick! How could communities, And the rude son should strike his father dead: So doubly seconded with will and power, 55 And this neglection of degree it is, That by a pace goes backward', with a purpose 'The brize is the gad or horse-fly. 2 It is said of the tiger, that in storms and high winds he rages and roars most furiously. 3 Hatch'd in silver, may mean, whose white hair and beard make him look like a figure engraved on silver. 4i. e. the particular rights of supreme authority. ' i, e. the earth; which, according to the Ptolemaic system, then in vogue, is the center of the solar system. i. e. corporations, companies, confraternities. That goes backward step by step. By |