_First Play._ 'Anon he finds him[894] Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword,[918] Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,[919] Repugnant to command: unequal match'd,[920] Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide; 450 But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,[921] Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top[922] Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash[923] Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for, lo! his sword,[924] 455 Which was declining on the milky head Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:[925] So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood.[926] And like a neutral to his will and matter,[927][928] Did nothing.[928] 460 But as we often see, against some storm, A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,[929] The bold winds speechless and the orb below[930] As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder Doth rend the region, so after Pyrrhus' pause[924][931] 465 Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work;[932] And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall[933] On Mars's armour, forged for proof eterne,[934] With less remorse than Pyrrhus' bleeding sword[924] Now falls on Priam. 470 Out, out, thou strumpet, Fortune! All you gods,[935] In general synod take away her power, Break all the spokes and fellies from her wheel,[936] And bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven As low as to the fiends!' 475 _Pol._ This is too long.[937] _Ham._ It shall to the barber's, with your beard. Prithee,[938] say on: he's for a jig or a tale of bawdry, or he sleeps: say on: come to Hecuba. _First Play._ 'But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen--'[939][940][941] 480 _Ham._ 'The mobled queen?'[940][942] _Pol._ That's good; 'mobled queen' is good.[943] _First Play._ 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames[944] With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head[945] Where late the diadem stood; and for a robe, 485 About her lank and all o'er-teemed loins, A blanket, in the alarm of fear caught up:[946] Who this had seen, with tongue in venom steep'd 'Gainst Fortune's state would treason have pronounced:[947] But if the gods themselves did see her then, 490 When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport In mincing with his sword her husband's limbs,[948] The instant burst of clamour that she made, Unless things mortal move them not at all,[949] Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven[950] 495 And passion in the gods.'[951]