Act V, Scene 5

Another part of the plains.

[Enter DIOMEDES and a Servant]

• Diomedes. Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' horse;
  Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid:
  Fellow, commend my service to her beauty; 3455
  Tell her I have chastised the amorous Trojan,
  And am her knight by proof.

• Servant. I go, my lord.

[Exit]

[Enter AGAMEMNON]

• Agamemnon. Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas
  Hath beat down Menon: bastard Margarelon
  Hath Doreus prisoner,
  And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam,
  Upon the pashed corses of the kings 3465
  Epistrophus and Cedius: Polyxenes is slain,
  Amphimachus and Thoas deadly hurt,
  Patroclus ta'en or slain, and Palamedes
  Sore hurt and bruised: the dreadful Sagittary
  Appals our numbers: haste we, Diomed, 3470
  To reinforcement, or we perish all.

[Enter NESTOR]

• Nestor. Go, bear Patroclus' body to Achilles;
  And bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame.
  There is a thousand Hectors in the field: 3475
  Now here he fights on Galathe his horse,
  And there lacks work; anon he's there afoot,
  And there they fly or die, like scaled sculls
  Before the belching whale; then is he yonder,
  And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge, 3480
  Fall down before him, like the mower's swath:
  Here, there, and every where, he leaves and takes,
  Dexterity so obeying appetite
  That what he will he does, and does so much
  That proof is call'd impossibility. 3485

[Enter ULYSSES]

• Ulysses. O, courage, courage, princes! great Achilles
  Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance:
  Patroclus' wounds have roused his drowsy blood,
  Together with his mangled Myrmidons, 3490
  That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him,
  Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend
  And foams at mouth, and he is arm'd and at it,
  Roaring for Troilus, who hath done to-day
  Mad and fantastic execution, 3495
  Engaging and redeeming of himself
  With such a careless force and forceless care
  As if that luck, in very spite of cunning,
  Bade him win all.

[Enter AJAX]

• Ajax. Troilus! thou coward Troilus!

[Exit]

• Diomedes. Ay, there, there.

• Nestor. So, so, we draw together.

[Enter ACHILLES]

• Achilles. Where is this Hector?
  Come, come, thou boy-queller, show thy face;
  Know what it is to meet Achilles angry:
  Hector? where's Hector? I will none but Hector.

[Exeunt]