Come, come, thou boy-queller', show thy face: Hector! where's Hector? I will none but Hector. [Exeunt. SCENE VI. Another Part of the Field. Enter AJAX. Ajax. Troilus, thou coward Troilus, show thy head! Enter DIOMEDES. Dio. Troilus, I say! where's Troilus? Ajax. Dio. I would correct him. What would'st thou? Ajax. Were I the general, thou should'st have my office Ere that correction :-Troilus, I say! what, Troilus! Enter TROILUS. Tro. O traitor Diomed!-turn thy false face, thou traitor, And pay thy life thou ow'st me for my horse! 7 8 Dio. Ha! art thou there? Ajax. I'll fight with him alone: stand, Diomed. Dio. He is my prize, I will not look upon. Tro. Come both, you cogging Greeks; have at you [Exeunt, fighting. both. boy-queller,] i. e. murderer of a boy. I will not look upon.] That is, (as we should now speak,) I will not be a looker-on. 9 you cogging Greeks;] This epithet has no particular propriety in this place, but the author had heard of Græcia mendax. JOHNSON. Surely the epithet had propriety, in respect of Diomedes at least, who had defrauded him of his mistress. Troilus bestows it Enter HECTOR. Hect. Yea, Troilus? O, well fought, my youngest brother! Enter ACHILLES. Achil. Now do I see thee:-Ha!-Have at thee, Hector. Hect. Pause, if thou wilt. Achil. I do disdain thy courtesy, proud Trojan. Be happy, that my arms are out of use: My rest and negligence befriend thee now, Hect. [Exit. Fare thee well: I would have been much more a fresher man, Re-enter TROILUS. Tro. Ajax hath ta'en Æneas; Shall it be? Enter one in sumptuous Armour. [Exit. Hect. Stand, stand, thou Greek; thou art a goodly mark: on both, unius ob culpam. A fraudulent man, as I am told, is still called, in the North, a gainful Greek. Cicero bears witness to this character of the ancient Greeks: Testimoniorum religionem et fidem nunquam ista natio coluit." Again : "Græcorum ingenia ad fallendum parata sunt." 1 carry him ;] i. e. prevail over him. STEEVENS. No? wilt thou not?-I like thy armour well; I'll frush it, and unlock the rivets all, But I'll be master of it:-Wilt thou not, beast, abide ? Why then, fly on, I'll hunt thee for thy hide. [Exeunt. SCENE VII. The same. Enter ACHILLES, with Myrmidons. Achil. Come here about me, you my Myrmidons; [Exeunt. SCENE VIII. The same. Enter MENELAUS and PARIS, fighting: then THER SITES. Ther. The cuckold, and the cuckold-maker are at it: Now, bull! now, dog! 'Loo, Paris, 'loo! now my double-henned sparrow! 'loo, Paris, 'loo! The bull has the game:'ware horns, ho! [Exeunt PARIS and MENELAUS. 2 I'll frush it,] The word frush I never found elsewhere, nor understand it. Sir T. Hanmer explains it, to break or bruise. 3 JOHNSON. execute your arms.] To execute their arms is to employ them; to put them to use. Enter MARGARELON. Mar. Turn, slave, and fight. Ther. What art thou? Mar. A bastard son of Priam's. Ther. I am a bastard too: I love bastards: I am a bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear will not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard? Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if the son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgment : Farewell, bastard. Mar. The devil take thee, coward! [Exeunt. SCENE IX. Another Part of the Field. Enter HECTOR. Hect. Most putrified core, so fair without, Thy goodly armour thus hath cost thy life. Now is my day's work done: I'll take good breath: Rest, sword: thou hast thy fill of blood and death! [Puts off his Helmet, and hangs his Shield behind him. Enter ACHILLES and Myrmidons. Achil. Look, Hector, how the sun begins to set; Hect. I am unarm'd; forego this vantage, Greek. On, Myrmidons; and cry you all amain, Achilles hath the mighty Hector slain. [A Retreat sounded. Hark! a retreat upon our Grecian part. Myr. The Trojan trumpets sound the like, my lord. Achil. The dragon wing of night o'erspreads the earth, And, stickler like, the armies separates. My half-supp'd sword, that frankly would have fed, Come, tie his body to my horse's tail; Along the field I will the Trojan trail. [Sheaths his sword. [Exeunt. SCENE X. The same. Enter AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR, DIOMEDES, and Others, marching. Shouts within. Agam. Hark! hark! what shout is that? Nest. [Within.] Peace, drums. Achilles ! Achilles! Hector's slain! Achilles! Dio. 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. To Agam. March patiently along:-Let one be sent 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, marching. And, stickler like,] Sticklers are arbitrators, judges, or, as called in some places, sidesmen. At every wrestling in Cornwall, before the games begin, a certain number of sticklers are chosen, who regulate the proceedings, and determine every dispute. Stickler (stic-kle-er) is immediately from the verb stickle, to interfere, to take part with, to busy one's self in any matter. |