Ch. 715: SCENE IX. Another part of the plain.

SCENE IX. Another part of the plain. ****

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_.]