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Act 5, Scene 10

Another part of the plain

  1. [Enter AENEAS, PARIS, ANTENOR, and DEIPHOBUS.]
  2. Aeneas
  3. 3342 Stand, ho! yet are we masters of the field.
  4. 3343 Never go home; here starve we out the night.
  5. [Enter TROILUS.]
  6. Troilus
  7. 3344 Hector is slain.
  8. All
  9. 3345 Hector! The gods forbid!
  10. Troilus
  11. 3346 He's dead, and at the murderer's horse's tail,
  12. 3347 In beastly sort, dragg'd through the shameful field.
  13. 3348 Frown on, you heavens, effect your rage with speed.
  14. 3349 Sit, gods, upon your thrones, and smile at Troy.
  15. 3350 I say at once let your brief plagues be mercy,
  16. 3351 And linger not our sure destructions on.
  17. Aeneas
  18. 3352 My lord, you do discomfort all the host.
  19. Troilus
  20. 3353 You understand me not that tell me so.
  21. 3354 I do not speak of flight, of fear of death,
  22. 3355 But dare all imminence that gods and men
  23. 3356 Address their dangers in. Hector is gone.
  24. 3357 Who shall tell Priam so, or Hecuba?
  25. 3358 Let him that will a screech-owl aye be call'd
  26. 3359 Go in to Troy, and say there 'Hector's dead.'
  27. 3360 There is a word will Priam turn to stone;
  28. 3361 Make wells and Niobes of the maids and wives,
  29. 3362 Cold statues of the youth; and, in a word,
  30. 3363 Scare Troy out of itself. But, march away;
  31. 3364 Hector is dead; there is no more to say.
  32. 3365 Stay yet. You vile abominable tents,
  33. 3366 Thus proudly pight upon our Phrygian plains,
  34. 3367 Let Titan rise as early as he dare,
  35. 3368 I'll through and through you. And, thou great-siz'd coward,
  36. 3369 No space of earth shall sunder our two hates;
  37. 3370 I'll haunt thee like a wicked conscience still,
  38. 3371 That mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy's thoughts.
  39. 3372 Strike a free march to Troy. With comfort go;
  40. 3373 Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe.
  41. [Enter PANDARUS.]
  42. Pandarus
  43. 3374 But hear you, hear you!
  44. Troilus
  45. 3375 Hence, broker-lackey. Ignominy and shame
  46. 3376 Pursue thy life and live aye with thy name!
  47. [Exeunt all but PANDARUS.]
  48. Pandarus
  49. 3377 A goodly medicine for my aching bones! world! world! thus
  50. 3378 is the poor agent despis'd! traitors and bawds, how earnestly are
  51. 3379 you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavour be
  52. 3380 so lov'd, and the performance so loathed? What verse for it? What
  53. 3381 instance for it? Let me see—
  54. Pandarus
  55. 3382 Full merrily the humble-bee doth sing
  56. 3383 Till he hath lost his honey and his sting;
  57. 3384 And being once subdu'd in armed trail,
  58. 3385 Sweet honey and sweet notes together fail.
  59. Pandarus
  60. 3386 Good traders in the flesh, set this in your painted cloths.
  61. 3387 As many as be here of pander's hall,
  62. 3388 Your eyes, half out, weep out at Pandar's fall;
  63. 3389 Or, if you cannot weep, yet give some groans,
  64. 3390 Though not for me, yet for your aching bones.
  65. 3391 Brethren and sisters of the hold-door trade,
  66. 3392 Some two months hence my will shall here be made.
  67. 3393 It should be now, but that my fear is this,
  68. 3394 Some galled goose of Winchester would hiss.
  69. 3395 Till then I'll sweat and seek about for eases,
  70. 3396 And at that time bequeath you my diseases.
  71. [Exit.]