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Act 5, Scene 8
Troilus and Cressida Translation Act 5, Scene 9
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Enter AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR, DIOMEDES, and others, marching. Shouts within
AGAMEMNON, AJAX, MENELAUS, NESTOR, DIOMEDES, and others enter marching. Shouts are heard within.
AGAMEMNON
Hark! hark! what shout is that?
AGAMEMNON
Listen! Listen! Who is shouting like that?
NESTOR
Peace, drums!
NESTOR
Drums, stop playing!
Within
Shouts are heard within.
NESTOR
Achilles! Achilles! Hector's slain! Achilles.
NESTOR
Achilles! Achilles! Hector's slain! Achilles!
DIOMEDES
The bruit is, Hector's slain, and by Achilles.
DIOMEDES
The message is that Hector's slain, and by Achilles.
AJAX
If it be so, yet bragless let it be;Great Hector was a man as good as he.
AJAX
If that's true he shouldn't boast about it. Great Hector was as good a man as Achilles.
AGAMEMNON
March patiently along: let one be sent To 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.
AGAMEMNON
Let's carry on walking back, send someone to ask Achilles to see us in our tent. If the gods have let Hector die then Troy is ours and these awful wars will be over.
Exeunt, marching
They exit marching.
