The Complete Works of William Shakespeare · William Shakespeare
SCENE IX. Another part of the plain.
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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.]
