Dilities, gifts, natures, shapes,
nd generals of grace exact,
ments, plots, orders, preventions,
nts to the field, or speech for truce,
or lofs, what is, or is not, serves
or these two to make paradoxes.
and in the imitation of these twain
as Ulysses says, opinion crowns
imperial voice,) many are infect.
rown self-will'd; and bears his head
rein, in full as proud a place
Achilles: keeps his tent like him;
Etious feafts; rails on our state of war,
n oracle: and sets Thersites
whose gall coins slanders like a mint,)
nus in comparisons with dirt;
en and discredit our exposure,
<foever rounded in with danger.
They tax our policy, and call it cowardice;
fdom as no member of the war;
prescíence, and esteem no act
of hand: the still and mental parts,-
contrive how many hands shall strike,
ness calls them on; and know, by measure
obfervant toil, the enemies' weight,
Great Agamemnon's tent, I pray ?
Agam.
Æne. May one, that is a herald, ar
Do a fair message to his kingly ears?
Agam. With furety stronger than A
'Fore all the Greekish heads, which w
Call Agamemnon head and general.
Æne. Fair leave, and large security
A stranger to those most imperial lool
Know them from eyes of other morta
Agam.
I ask, that I might waken reverence,
And bid the cheek be ready with a bl
Modest as morning when the coldly ey
The youthful Phœbus :
Which is that god in office, guiding
Which is the high and mighty Agam
le praised himielt bring the prane forth : t the repining enemy commends,
ath fame blows; that praise, sole pure, transcends. Sir, you of Troy, call you yourself Æneas?
Ay, Greek, that is my name.
What's your affair, I pray you?
Sir, pardon; 'tis for Agamemnon's ears.
He hears nought privately, that comes from Troy.
Nor I from Troy come not to whisper him:
trumpet to awake his ear;
s sense on the attentive bent,
Speak frankly as the wind;
Agamemnon's fsleeping hour :
u shalt know, Trojan, he is awake, Chee so himself.
Trumpet, blow loud,
brass voice through all these lazy tents;
y Greek of mettle, let him know,
roy means fairly, shall be spoke aloud.
- great Agamemnon, here in Troy call'd Hector, (Priam is his father,)
Who in this dull and long-continued truce
Is rusty grown; he bade me take a trumpet,
And to this purpose speak. Kings, princes, lords I
If there be one, among the fair'st of Greece,
That holds his honour higher than his ease;
That seeks his praise more than he fears his peril;
That knows his valour, and knows not his fear;
That loves his mistress more than in confession,
(With truant vows to her own lips he loves,)
And dare avow her beauty and her worth,
In other arms than hers, to him this challenge.
Hector, in view of Trojans and of Greeks,
Shall make it good, or do his best to do it,
He hath a lady, wiser, fairer, truer,
Than ever Greek did compass in his arms;
And will to-morrow with his trumpet call,
Mid-way between your tents and walls of Troy,
To rouse a Grecian that is true in love :
If any come, Hector shall honour him;
If none, he'll say in Troy, when he retires,
The Grecian dames are fun-burn'd, and not worth
The splinter of a lance. Even so much.
Agam. This shall be told our lovers, lord Æneas;
If none of them have foul in such a kind,
We left them all at home: But we are soldiers;
And may that foldier a mere recreant prove,
That means not, hath not, or is not in love!
If then one is, or hath, or means to be,
That one meets Hector; if none else, I am he.
Neft. Tell him of Nestor, one that was a man
When Hector's grandfire suck'd: he is old now;
But, if there be not in our Grecian hoft
One noble man, that hath one spark of fire
To answer for his love, Tell him from me,-
hall have word of this intent;
ch lord of Greece, from tent to tent:
hall feast with us before you go,
the welcome of a noble foe.
[Exeunt all but ULYSSES and NESTOR.
estor,
That says Ulyffes?
have a young conception in my brain,
ytime to bring it to some shape.
ges rive hard knots: The seeded pride
to this maturity blown up
chilles, must or now be cropp'd,
ng, breed a nursery of like evil,
his challenge that the gallant Hector sends,
■ is spread in general name,
purpose only to Achilles.
he purpose is perfpicuous even as substance,
ssness little characters sum up:
ne publication, make no strain,
chilles, were his brain as barren
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