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And by device let blockish Ajax draw [375]
The sort to fight with Hector; among ourselves
Give him allowance as the worthier man,
For that will physic the great Myrmidon,

Who broils in loud applause, and make him fall
His crest that prouder than blue Iris bends. [380]
If the dull brainless Ajax come safe off,
We’ll dress him up in voices; if he fail,

Yet go we under our opinion still
That we have better men. But, hit or miss,
Our project’s life this shape of sense assumes: [385]
Ajax employed plucks down Achilles’ plumes.

NESTOR
Now, Ulysses, I begin to relish thy advice,

And I will give a taste of it forthwith
To Agamemnon. Go we to him straight.
Two curs shall tame each other; pride alone [390]

Must tarre the mastiffs on, as ’twere their bone.
Exeunt.