Troilus and Cressida
Act V, Scene 9
Another part of the plains.
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Sound retreat. Shout. Enter Agamemnon, Ajax, Menelaus,
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Nestor, Diomedes, and the rest, marching.
Agamemnon
1
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Hark, hark, what shout is this?
Myrmidons
3
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Within.
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Achilles! Achilles! Hector’s slain! Achilles!
Diomedes
4
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The bruit is, Hector’s slain, and by Achilles.
Ajax
5 - 6
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If it be so, yet bragless let it be,
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Great Hector was as good a man as he.
Agamemnon
7 - 10
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March patiently along; let one be sent
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To pray Achilles see us at our tent.
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If in his death the gods have us befriended,
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Great Troy is ours, and our sharp wars are ended.
