_Patr._ Why, no, you ruinous butt; you whoreson indistinguishable[2138] cur, no.[2139] _Ther._ No! why art thou then exasperate, thou idle immaterial skein of sleave silk, thou green sarcenet flap for[2140] a sore eye, thou tassel of a prodigal's purse, thou? Ah,[2141] 30 how the poor world is pestered with such waterflies, diminutives of nature! _Patr._ Out, gall![2142] _Ther._ Finch-egg! _Achil._ My sweet Patroclus, I am thwarted quite[2143] 35 From my great purpose in to-morrow's battle. Here is a letter from Queen Hecuba, A token from her daughter, my fair love, Both taxing me and gaging me to keep An oath that I have sworn. I will not break it: 40 Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay;[2144] My major vow lies here, this I'll obey. Come, come, Thersites, help to trim my tent: This night in banqueting must all be spent.[2145] Away, Patroclus! [_Exeunt Achilles and Patroclus._[2145][2146] 45 _Ther._ With too much blood and too little brain, these two may run mad; but, if with too much brain and too little blood they do, I'll be a curer of madmen. Here's Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough and one that loves quails;[2147] but he has not so much brain as ear-wax: and the goodly[2148] 50 transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the[2149] primitive statue and oblique memorial of cuckolds; a thrifty[2150] shoeing-horn in a chain, hanging at his brother's leg,--to[2151] what form but that he is, should wit larded with malice and[2152] malice forced with wit turn him to? To an ass, were nothing;[2153] 55 he is both ass and ox: to an ox, were nothing; he is[2154] both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchew, a[2154][2155] toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe,[2156] I would not care; but to be Menelaus! I would conspire[2157] against destiny. Ask me not what I would be, if I were[2158] 60 not Thersites; for I care not to be the louse of a lazar, so I were not Menelaus. Hoy-day! spirits and fires! _Enter_ HECTOR, TROILUS, AJAX, AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, NESTOR, MENELAUS, _and_ DIOMEDES, _with lights_.[2159] _Agam._ We go wrong, we go wrong.[2160] _Ajax._ No, yonder 'tis;[2161] There, where we see the lights.[2162] _Hect._ I trouble you.[2161] _Ajax._ No, not a whit. _Re-enter_ ACHILLES.[2163] _Ulyss._ Here comes himself to guide you. 65 _Achil._ Welcome, brave Hector; welcome, princes all. _Agam._ So now, fair Prince of Troy, I bid good night.[2164] Ajax commands the guard to tend on you.[2165] _Hect._ Thanks and good night to the Greeks' general.[2166] _Men._ Good night, my lord.