Works Volume 5

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 Excerpt: ... considered us fair in ordinary apparel as Helen in holiday finely. k--sorts,--That is, mits, fits, is appropriate. As in "nenry V." Act IV. Sc. l,--"It sortt well with thy fierceness." Tro. Better at home, if would I might, were may.--But to the sport abroad;--are you bound thither? Jese. In all swift haste. Teo. Come, go we, then, together. Exeunt. SCENE II.--The same. A Street. Enter Cressida and Alexander. Cres. Who were those went by? Alex. Queen Hecuba and Helen. Cres. And whither go they? Alex. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale, To sec the battle. Hector, whose patience Is, as a virtue, fix'd, to-day was mbv'd: He chid Andromache, and struck his armourer; And, like as there were husbandry in war,, Before the sun rose, he was harness'd light," And to the field goes he; where every flower Did, as a prophet, weep what it foresaw In Hector's wrath. Cres. What was his cause of anger? Alex. The noise goes, this: there is among the Greeks A lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector; They call him, Ajax. Cres. Good; and what of him? Alex. They say he is a very manner se, And stands alone. Cres. So do all men,--unless they are drunk, sick, or have no legs. Alex. This man, lady, hath robbed many beasts of their particular additions;b 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 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:c he hath the joints of every thing; but every thing so out of joint, that he is a gonty Briareus, many ...