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. Fare thee well: I would have been much more a fresher man Tro. Ajax hath ta'en Æneas: Shall it be? Enter one in sumptuous armour. [Exit. [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; Mark what I say.-Attend me where I wheel : a Frush-break to pieces. Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath; SCENE VIII.-The same. [Exeunt. Enter MENELAUS and PARIS, fighting: then THER SITES. 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! [Éx. PAR. and MEN. Enter MARGARELON. Mar. Turn, slave, and fight. 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 everything 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 judgment: Farewell, bastard. Mar. The devil take thee, coward! [Exeunt. SCENE IX.-Another Part of the Field. Enter HECTOR. 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. Achil. Strike, fellows, strike; this is the man I seek. [HECTOR falls. So, Ilion, fall thou; now, Troy, sink down; Here lies thy heart, thy sinews, and thy bone.On, Myrmidons; and cry you all amain, "Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain." [A retreat sounded. My half-supp'd sword that frankly would have fed, [Sheaths his sword. Come, tie his body to my horse's tail; Along the field I will the Trojan trail. SCENE X.-The same. [Exeunt. 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 a man as good as he. Agam. March patiently along :-Let one be sent a Stickler-like. A stickler was an arbitrator, or sidesman ; one who presided over the combats of quarter-staff and wrestling. 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. Ene. Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field: Never go home; here starve we out the night. Enter TROILUS. Tro. Hector is slain. All. Hector?-The gods forbid! Ene. My lord, you do discomfort all the host. 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, [Exeunt ENEAS and Trojans. As TROILUS is going out, enter, from the other side, PANDARUS. Pan. But hear you, hear you! Tro. Hence, broker lackey! ignomy and shame Pursue thy life, and live aye with thy name. [Exit TROILUS. Pan. A goodly medicine for mine aching bones !— O world! world! world! thus is the poor agent despised! O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a' work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavour be so desired, 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: Good traders in the flesh, set this in your painted cloths. Your eyes, half out, weep out at Pandar's fall: [Exit. END OF TROILUS AND CRESSIDA. |