SCENE VII. Another part of the plains.

Enter ACHILLES, with Myrmidons

ACHILLES

Come here about me, you my Myrmidons;
Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel:
Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath:
And when I have the bloody Hector found,
Empale him with your weapons round about;
In fellest manner execute your aims.
Follow me, sirs, and my proceedings eye:
It is decreed Hector the great must die.

Exeunt

Enter MENELAUS and PARIS, fighting: then THERSITES

THERSITES

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

Enter MARGARELON

MARGARELON

Turn, slave, and fight.

THERSITES

What art thou?

MARGARELON

A b*stard son of Priam’s.

THERSITES

I am a b*stard too; I love b*stards: I am a b*stard
begot, b*stard instructed, b*stard in mind, b*stard
in valour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear will
not bite another, and wherefore should one b*stard?
Take heed, the quarrel’s most ominous to us: if the
son of a wh*re fight for a wh*re, he tempts judgment:
farewell, b*stard.

Exit

MARGARELON

The devil take thee, coward!

Exit

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