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- {\pard\f0\fs28{\fs48 Troilus and Cressida
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- {\b\fs36 5.11}
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- {\i Enter Aeneas, Paris, Antenor, and Deiphobus\
- }{\b \fs24 AENEAS\
- } Stand, ho! Yet are we masters of the field.\
- Never go home; here starve we out the night.\
- {\i Enter Troilus\
- }{\b \fs24 TROILUS\
- } Hector is slain.\
- {\b \fs24 ALL THE OTHERS} Hector? The gods forbid.\
- {\b \fs24 TROILUS\
- } He's dead, and at the murderer's horse's tail\
- In beastly sort dragged through the shameful field. {\fs20 5}\
- Frown on, you heavens; effect your rage with speed;\
- Sit, gods, upon your thrones, and smite at Troy.\
- I say, at once: let your brief plagues be mercy,\
- And linger not our sure destructions on.\
- {\b \fs24 AENEAS\
- } My lord, you do discomfort all the host. {\fs20 10}\
- {\b \fs24 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? {\fs20 15}\
- Let him that will a screech-owl aye be called\
- Go into Troy and say their 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 {\fs20 20}\
- Scare Troy out of itself. But march away.\
- Hector is dead; there is no more to say.\
- Stay yet.\'b1\'b1You vile abominable tents\
- Thus proudly pitched upon our Phrygian plains,\
- Let Titan rise as early as he dare, {\fs20 25}\
- I'll through and through you! And thou great-sized\
- 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: {\fs20 30}\
- Hope of revenge shall hide our inward woe.\
- {\i [Exeunt marching]\
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