Page 2820 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

NESTOR

Our noble general, do not do so.

DIOMEDES
You must prepare to fight without Achilles.

ULYSSES
Why, ’tis this naming of him doth him harm.
Here is a man − but ’tis before his face; [225]

I will be silent.

NESTOR

Wherefore should you so?
He is not emulous, as Achilles is.

ULYSSES
Know the whole world, he is as valiant.

AJAX
A whoreson dog, that shall palter thus with us!
Would he were a Trojan! [230]

NESTOR
What a vice were it in Ajax now −

ULYSSES

If he were proud −

DIOMEDES

Or covetous of praise -

ULYSSES
Ay, or surly borne −

DIOMEDES
Or strange, or self-affected. [235]