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Another part of the plain |
Sound retreat. Shout. Enter AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR, DIOMEDES, |
and the rest, marching |
AGAMEMNON. Hark! hark! what shout is this? |
NESTOR. Peace, drums! |
SOLDIERS. [Within] Achilles! Achilles! Hector's slain. Achilles! |
DIOMEDES. The bruit is Hector's slain, and by Achilles. |
AJAX. If it be so, yet bragless let it be; |
Great Hector was as good a man as he. |
AGAMEMNON. March patiently along. Let one be sent |
To pray Achilles see us at our tent. |
If in his death the gods have us befriended; |
Great Troy is ours, and our sharp wars are ended. |
Exeunt |
ACT V. SCENE 10. |
Another part of the plain |
Enter AENEAS, PARIS, ANTENOR, and DEIPHOBUS |
AENEAS. Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field. |
Never go home; here starve we out the night. |
Enter TROILUS |
TROILUS. Hector is slain. |
ALL. Hector! The gods forbid! |
TROILUS. He's dead, and at the murderer's horse's tail, |
In beastly sort, dragg'd through the shameful field. |
Frown on, you heavens, effect your rage with speed. |
Sit, gods, upon your thrones, and smile at Troy. |
I say at once let your brief plagues be mercy, |
And linger not our sure destructions on. |
AENEAS. My lord, you do discomfort all the host. |
TROILUS. You understand me not that tell me so. |
I do not speak of flight, of fear of death, |
But dare all imminence that gods and men |
Address their dangers in. Hector is gone. |
Who shall tell Priam so, or Hecuba? |
Let him that will a screech-owl aye be call'd |
Go in to Troy, and say there 'Hector's dead.' |
There is a word will Priam turn to stone; |
Make wells and Niobes of the maids and wives, |
Cold statues of the youth; and, in a word, |
Scare Troy out of itself. But, march away; |
Hector is dead; there is no more to say. |
Stay yet. You vile abominable tents, |
Thus proudly pight upon our Phrygian plains, |
Let Titan rise as early as he dare, |
I'll through and through you. And, thou great-siz'd coward, |
No space of earth shall sunder our two hates; |
I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still, |
That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy's thoughts. |
Strike a free march to Troy. With comfort go; |
Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe. |
Enter PANDARUS |
PANDARUS. But hear you, hear you! |
TROILUS. Hence, broker-lackey. Ignominy and shame |
Pursue thy life and live aye with thy name! |
Exeunt all but PANDARUS |
PANDARUS. A goodly medicine for my aching bones! world! world! thus |
is the poor agent despis'd! traitors and bawds, how earnestly are |
you set a work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavour be |
so lov'd, and the performance so loathed? What verse for it? What |
instance for it? Let me see- |
Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing |
Till he hath lost his honey and his sting; |
And being once subdu'd in armed trail, |
Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail. |
Good traders in the flesh, set this in your painted |
cloths. As many as be here of pander's hall, |
Your eyes, half out, weep out at Pandar's fall; |
Or, if you cannot weep, yet give some groans, |
Though not for me, yet for your aching bones. |
Brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade, |
Some two months hence my will shall here be made. |
It should be now, but that my fear is this, |
Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss. |
Till then I'll sweat and seek about for eases, |
And at that time bequeath you my diseases. Exit |
THE END |
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