Page 2816 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2
P. 2816
AJAX
I he so much? Do you not think he thinks himself a better man than I am?
AGAMEMNON
No question.
AJAX
Will you subscribe his thought, and say he is? [145]
AGAMEMNON
No, noble Ajax; you are as strong, as valiant, as wise, no less noble, much
more gentle, and altogether more tractable.
AJAX
Why should a man be proud? How doth pride grow? I know not what it is.
[150]
AGAMEMNON
Your mind is the clearer, Ajax, and your virtues the fairer. He that is proud
eats up himself. Pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle;
and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise.
[155]
Enter Ulysses.
AJAX
I do hate a proud man as I hate the engendering of toads.
NESTOR
(aside) And yet he loves himself; is’t not strange?
ULYSSES
Achilles will not to the field tomorrow.
AGAMEMNON
What’s his excuse?
