_Andr._ Farewell, farewell; 'tis vain to strive with fate! Cassandra's raging god inspires my breast With truths that must be told, and not believed. Look how he dies! look how his eyes turn pale! Look how his blood bursts out at many vents! Hark how Troy roars, how Hecuba cries out, And widowed I fill all the streets with screams! Behold distraction, frenzy, and amazement, Like antiques meet, and tumble upon heaps! And all cry, Hector, Hector's dead! Oh Hector! [_Exit._ _Hect._ What sport will be, when we return at evening, To laugh her out of countenance for her dreams! _Troil._ I have not quenched my eyes with dewy sleep this night; But fiery fumes mount upward to my brains, And, when I breathe, methinks my nostrils hiss! I shall turn basilisk, and with my sight Do my hands' work on Diomede this day. _Hect._ To arms, to arms! the vanguards are engaged Let us not leave one man to guard the walls; Both old and young, the coward and the brave, Be summoned all, our utmost fate to try, And as one body move, whose soul am I. [_Exeunt._ SCENE II--_The Camp._ _Alarm within. Enter_ AGAMEMNON, ULYSSES, MENELAUS, _Soldiers._ _Agam._ Thus far the promise of the day is fair. AEneas rather loses ground than gains. I saw him over-laboured, taking breath, And leaning on his spear, behold our trenches, Like a fierce lion looking up to toils, Which yet he durst not leap. _Ulys._ And therefore distant death does all the work; The flights of whistling darts make brown the sky, Whose clashing points strike fire, and gild the dusk; Those, that reach home, from neither host are vain, So thick the prease; so lusty are their arms, That death seemed never sent with better will. Nor was with less concernment entertained. _Enter_ NESTOR. _Agam._ Now, Nestor, what's the news? _Nest._ I have descried A cloud of dust, that mounts in pillars upwards, Expanding as it travels to our camp; And from the midst I heard a bursting shout, That rent the heaven; as if all Troy were swarmed. And on the wing this way. _Menel._ Let them come, let them come. _Agam._ Where's great Achilles? _Ulys._ Think not on Achilles, Till Hector drag him from his tent to fight; Which sure he will, for I have laid the train. _Nest._ But young Patroclus leads his Myrmidons, And in their front, even in the face of Hector, Resolves to dare the Trojans. _Agam._ Haste, Ulysses, bid Ajax issue forth and second him. _Ulys._ Oh noble general, let it not be so. Oppose not rage, while rage is in its force, But give it way awhile, and let it waste. The rising deluge is not stopt with dams; Those it o'erbears, and drowns the hopes of harvest; But, wisely managed, its divided strength Is sluiced in channels, and securely drained. First, let small parties dally with their fury; But when their force is spent and unsupplied, The residue with mounds may be restrained, And dry-shod we may pass the naked ford. _Enter_ THERSITES. _Thers._ Ho, ho, ho!