Internet Shakespeare Editions

Author: William Shakespeare
Editor: William Godshalk
Peer Reviewed

Troilus and Cressida (Modern)

3519.1[5.10]
3520Sound retreat. Shout.
Enter Agamemnon, Ajax, Menelaus, Nestor, Diomed, and the rest marching [to a drum beat].
Agamemnon
Hark. Hark. What shout is that?
Nestor
Peace, drums.
[Drums cease.]
3525[Greek] Soldiers
Achilles. Achilles. Hector's slain. Achilles.
Diomed
The bruit is, Hector's slain, and by Achilles.
If it be so, yet bragless let it be;
Great Hector was a man as good as he.
Agamemnon
March patiently along. Let one be sent
3530To 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].