In counsels wouldst thou passe vs too? In all things none exceeds. ad∣ice to .To some, God giues the powre of warre; to some the slight to dance;To some, the art of instruments; some doth for voice aduance:And that far-seeing God grants some, th wisedome of the minde,Which no man can keepe to himselfe: that (though but few can inde)Doth profite many, that preserues, the publique weale and sta:And that, who hath, he best can prise: but, for me, Ile relateOnely my censure what's our best. The verie crowne of warreDoth burne about thee; yet our men, when they haue reach thus farre,Suppose their valours crownd, and ceasse. A few still stir their fe,And so a few with many fight; sperst thinly through the fleet▪Retire then, leaue speech to the route, and all thy Princes call;That, here, in counsels of most weight, we may resolue of all.If hauing likelihood to beleeue, that God wil conquest giue,We shall charge through; or with this grace, make our retreate, and liue:For (I must needs affirme) I feare, the debt of yesterday(Since warre is such a God of change) the Grecians now will pay.And since th'insatiate man of warre, remaines at fleet, if thereWe tempt his safetie: no howre more, is hote soule can forbeare.This sound stuffe Hector lik't, approu'd, iumpt from his chariot,And said; Polydamas? make good, this place, and suffer notOne Prince to passe it; I myselfe, will there go, where you seeThose friends in skirmish; and returne (when they haue heard from me,Hector for his goodly forme compared to a hill of snow.Command, that your aduice obeys) with vtmost speed: this said,With day-bright armes, white plume, white skarffe, his goodly lims arraid,He parted from them, like a hill, remouing, all of snow:And to the Troian Peres and Chiefes, he flew; to let them knowThe Counsell of Polydamas. All turnd, and did reioyce;To haste to Panthus gentle sonne, being cald by Hectors voyce.Who (through the forefights making way) lookt for Deiophobus;King Hellenus, Asiades, Hyrtasian Asius:Of whom, some were not to be found, vnhurt, or vndeceast;Some onely hurt, and gone from field. As further he addrest,He found within the fights left wing, the faire-hair'd Hellens loue,By all meanes mouing men to blowes; which could by no meanes moueHectors forbeareance; his friends misse, so put his powres in storme:Hector chide Paris.But thus in wonted terms he chid: You, with the finest forme,Impostor, womans man: Where are (in your care markt) all these?Deiphobus, king Hellenus, Asius Hyrtacides?Othryoneus, Acamas? now haughtie IlionShakes to his lowest groundworke: now, iust ruine fals vponThy head, past rescue. He replyed; Hector, why chid'st thou nowWhen I am guiltlesse? other times, there are for ease I know,Then these; for she that brought thee forth, not vtterly left meWithout some portion of thy spirit, to make me brother thee.But since thou first brought'st in thy force, to this our nauall fight:I, and my friends, haue ceaslesse fought, to do thy seruice right.But all those friends thou seek'st are slaine, exeepting Hellen,0