Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Vlys. Power into Will, Will into Appetite,
Vlys. And Appetite (an vniuersall Wolfe,
Vlys. So doubly seconded with Will, and Power)
Vlys. Must make perforce an vniuersall prey,
Vlys. And last, eate vp himselfe.
Vlys. Great Agamemnon:
Vlys. This Chaos, when Degree is suffocate,
Vlys. Followes the choaking:
Vlys. And this neglection of Degree, is it
Vlys. That by a pace goes backward in a purpose
Vlys. It hath to climbe. The Generall's disdain'd
Vlys. By him one step below; he, by the next,
Vlys. That next, by him beneath: so euery step
Vlys. Exampled by the first pace that is sicke
Vlys. Of his Superiour, growes to an enuious Feauer
Vlys. Of pale, and bloodlesse Emulation.
Vlys. And 'tis this Feauer that keepes Troy on foote,
Vlys. Not her owne sinewes. To end a tale of length,
Vlys. Troy in our weaknesse liues, not in her strength.
Nest. Nest.