ACT IV. SCENE II.

Lovers parting in the Morning.

Troil. (6) O Creffida! but that the busy day, Wak'd by the lark, has rous'd the ribald crows, And dreaming night will hide our joys no longer, I would not from thee.

Cress. Beshrew the witch! with venomous wights

she stays,

Tedious as hell; but flies the grafps of love,
With wings more momentary swift than thought.

Lover's Farewel.

Injurious time, now with a robber's haste,
Crams his rich thiev'ry up, he knows not how.
As many farewels as be stars in heav'n,
With diftinct breath and confign'd kisses to them,
He fumbles up all in one loose adieu;
And fcants us with a fingle famish'd kiss;
Distasted with the falt of broken tears.

Troilus's Character of the Grecian Youths.

The Grecian youths are full of fubtle qualities, They're loving, well compos'd, with gifts of nature Flowing, and swelling o'er with arts and exercise; How novelties may move, and parts with personAlas!-a kind of godly jealousy (Which, I beseech you call a virtuous fin) Makes me afraid.

SCENE VIII. A Trumpeter.

Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe;

Blow, villain, till thy sphered-bias cheek

(6) Troi!, &c.] See Romeo and Juiet, p. 212.

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Out-fwell the cholick of puft Aquilon:
Come, stretch thy chest, and let thy eyes pout blood;
Thou blow'st for Hector.

Diomede's Manner of walking.

'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gate:
He rises on his toe: that spirit of his
In aspiration lifts him from the earth.

Description of Creffida.

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(7) There's language in her eye, her cheek, her
lip:

Nay her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out
At every joint, and motive of her body :

Oh, these encounterers! So glib of tongue,
They give a coasting welcome ere it comes;
And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts
To every ticklish reader; set them down
For fluttish spoils of opportunity,
And daughters of the game.

The Character of Troilus..

The youngest son of Priam, a true knight;
Not yet mature, yet matchless; firm of word;
Speaking in deeds, and deedless in his tongue;

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(7) There's, &c.] Nothing can exceed this description of a wan ton woman. Richard (in the Beginning of Richard the Third) fpeaking of Jane Shore, fays,

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We fay that Shores wife hath a pretty foot,.
A cherry lip, a passing-pleasing tongue.

But in Ifaiah there is a description, of the wanton daughters of Zion,
which.is peculiarly beautiful. "Because the daughters of Zion
are haughty, and walk with stretch'd-forth necks, and wanton
eyes, walking,, and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling
with their feet, &c. See Chap. iii. Ver. 16.

Not

Not foon provok'd, nor being provok'd, foon calm'd
His heart and hand both open, and both free;
For what he has, he gives; what thinks, he shews;
Yet gives he not, 'till judgement guide his bounty3
Nor dignifies an impair thought with breath:
Manly as Hector, but more dangerous;
For Hector in his blaze of wrath subscribes -
To tender objects: but he in heat of action
Is more vindicative than jealous love..

SCENE IX. Hector in Battle.

I have, thou gallant Trojan, seen thee oft, Labouring for destiny, make cruel way

Through ranks of greekish youth; and I have feen

thee

As hot as Perfeus, spurthy Phrygian steed,
Bravely despising forfeits and fubduements,
When thou hast hung thy advanced sword in th' air,
Not letting it decline on the declin'd:
That I have said unto my standers-by,
Lo, Jupiter is yonder, dealing life!

And I have seen thee pause and take thy breath,
When that a ring of Greeks have hem'd thee in,
Like an Olympian wrestling

(8) Mine honour keeps the weather of my fate; Life every man holds dear, but the brave man Holds honour far more precious-dear than life.

(8) Mine Honour, &c.] See the first passage in Julius Cæfar, and the note.

Pity

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Pity to be discarded in War.

For love of all the gods
Let's leave the hermit pity with our mothers;
And when we have our armour buckled on,
The venom'd vengeance ride upon our swords !

INDEX.
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INDE X.

Age, an old one despised, 157, XBees, their common-wealth, 25,