With such a careless force, and forceless care, Come, come, thou boy-queller, show thy face; Know what it is to meet Achilles angry. Hector! where's Hector? I will none but Hector. SCENE VI.-Another part of the field. Enter AJAX. [Exeunt. Ajax. Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head! Enter DIOMedes. Dio. Troilus, I say! where's Troilus? Ajax. Dio. I would correct him. What would'st thou? Ajax. Were I the general, thou should'st have my office, Ere that correction:-Troilus, I say! what, Troilus! Enter TROILUS. Tro. O traitor Diomed!-turn thy false face, thou traitor, And pay thy life thou ow'st me for my horse! Dio. Ha! art thou there? Ajax. I'll fight with him alone: stand, Diomed. Tro. Come both, you cogging Greeks; have at you both. [Exeunt, fighting Enter HECTOR. Hect. Yea, Troilus? O, well fought, my youngest brother! Enter ACHILLES. Achil. Now do I see thee: Ha!-Have at thee, Hector. Hect. Pause, if thou wilt. Achil. I do disdain thy courtesy, proud Trojan. My rest and negligence befriend thee now, Hect. [Exit Fare thee well: I would have been much more a fresher man, Re-enter TROILUS. Tro. Ajax hath ta'en Æneas; Shall it be? Enter one in sumptuous armour. [Exit. Hect. Stand, stand, thou Greek; thou art a goodly mark: No? wilt thou not?-I like thy armour well; I'll frush it, and unlock the rivets all, But I'll be master of it:-Wilt thou not, beast, abide? Why then, fly on, I'll hunt thee for thy hide. [Exeunt. SCENE VII.-The same. Enter ACHILLES, with Myrmidons. Achil. Come here about me, you my Myrmidons; SCENE VIII.-The same. [Exeunt. Enter MENELAUS and PARIS, fighting: then Thersites. Ther. The cuckold, and the cuckold-maker are at it: Now, bull! now, dog! 'Loo, Paris, 'loo! now my double henned sparrow! 'loo, Paris, 'loo! The bull has the game:-'ware horns, ho! [Exeunt PARIS and MENELAUS. Enter MARGarelon. Mar. Turn, slave, and fight. Ther. What art thou? Mar. A bastard son of Priam's. Ther. I am a bastard too; I love bastards: I am a bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear will not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard? Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if the son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgement: Farewell, bastard. Mar. The devil take thee, coward! SCENE IX.-Another part of the field. Enter HECTOR. [Exeunt. Hect. Most putrified core, so fair without, Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life. Now is my day's work done; I'll take good breath: Rest, sword; thou hast thy fill of blood and death! [Puts off his helmet, and hangs his shield behind him. Enter ACHILLES and Myrmidons. Achil. Look, Hector, how the sun begins to set; Hect. I am unarm'd; forego this vantage, Greek. Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain. [A retreat sounded. Hark! a retreat upon our Grecian part. Myr. The Trojan trumpets sound the like, my lord. Achil. The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth, And, stickler like, the armies separates. My half-supp'd sword, that frankly would have fed, Pleas'd with this dainty bit, thus goes to bed.→ [Sheaths his sword. Come, tie his body to my horse's tail; [Exeunt SCENE X.-The same. Enter AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR, DIOMEDES, and others, marching. Shouts within. Agam. Hark! hark! what shout is that? Nest. [Within.] Achilles! Hector's slain! Achilles! Peace, drums. Achilles ! Dio. 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. Agam. March patiently along:-Let one be sent To pray Achilles see us at our tent. If in his death the gods have us befriended, [Exeunt, marching. SCENE XI.-Another part of the field. Enter ENEAS and Trojans. Ene. Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field: go home; here starve we out the night. Never Enter TROILUS. Tro. Hector is slain. Hector! The gods forbid! Tro. 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! |