Dio.
Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' ^note horse;
Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid:
Fellow, commend my service to her beauty;
Tell her I have chastised the amorous Trojan,
And am her knight by proof.

Ser. ^note
I go, my lord. [Exit. ^note Enter Agamemnon. ^{note note}

Agam.
Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas ^note
Hath beat down Menon: bastard Margarelon ^note
Hath Doreus prisoner,
And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam,

Upon the pashed corses of the kings ^note
Epistrophus ^note and Cedius: ^note Polyxenes ^note is slain;
Amphimachus and Thoas ^note deadly hurt;
Patroclus ta'en or slain; and Palamedes
Sore hurt and bruised ^note: the dreadful sagittary
Appals our numbers: haste we, Diomed,
To reinforcement, or we perish all. Enter Nestor.

Nest.
Go, bear Patroclus' ^note body to Achilles,
And bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame.
There is ^note a thousand Hectors in the field:
Now here he fights on Galathe his horse,
And there lacks work; anon he's there afoot,
And there they fly or die, like scaled ^note sculls ^note
Before the belching whale; then is he yonder,
And there the strawy ^note Greeks, ripe for his edge,
Fall down before him, like the ^note mower's swath:
Here, there and every where he leaves ^note and takes,
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will ^note he does, and does so much
That proof is call'd impossibility. Enter Ulysses.

Ulyss.
O, courage, courage, princes! great Achilles
Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance:
Patroclus' ^note wounds have roused his drowsy blood,
Together with his mangled Myrmidons,

That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him,
Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend,
And foams at mouth, and he is arm'd, and at it,
Roaring for Troilus; who hath done to-day.
Mad and fantastic execution,
Engaging and redeeming of himself,
With such a careless force and forceless care,
As if that luck ^note, in very spite of cunning,
Bade him win all. ^{note note}Enter Ajax.

Ajax. ^note
Troilus! thou coward Troilus! [Exit.

Dio.
Ay, there, there.

Nest.
So, so, we draw together. ^note Enter Achilles.

Achil.
Where is this Hector?
Come, come, thou boy-queller ^note, show ^note thy face;
Know what it is to meet Achilles angry:
Hector! where's Hector? I will none but Hector. [Exeunt. ^{note note}

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