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Troy. Before Priam's palace.
[Enter HECTOR and ANDROMACHE]
ANDROMACHE
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When was my | lord so | much un|gently |
tempered,
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To stop | his ears | against | admon|ishment?
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Unarm,| unarm,| and do | not fight | today.
HECTOR
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You train | me to | offend | you: get | you gone.
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By the | ever|lasting | gods, I'll go.
ANDROMACHE
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My dreams | will sure | prove om/inous | to the
day.
HECTOR
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No more | I say.
[Enter CASSANDRA]
CASSANDRA
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Where is my | brother | Hector?
ANDROMACHE
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Here sister, armed,| and bloo|dy in | intent:
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Consort | with me | in loud | and dear |
petition: ??
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Pursue | we him | on knees:| for I | have dreamt
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Of bloo|dy tur|bulence;| and this / whole night
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Hath noth|ing been | but shapes,| and forms | of
slaugh||ter.
CASSANDRA
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O,| 'tis true.
HECTOR
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Ho? Bid*| my trump|et sound.
CASSANDRA
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No notes | of sally,| for the / heavens, sweet |
brother.
HECTOR
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Begone | I say:| the gods | have heard | me
swear.
CASSANDRA
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The gods | are deaf | to hot | and peev|ish vows;
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They are | pollu|ted of|ferings, more | abhorred
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Than spot|ted liv|ers in | the sac|rifice.
ANDROMACHE
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O be | persua|ded, do / not count it | holy,
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To hurt | by being | just; it | is as | lawful:
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For we | would count | give^much | to as vi|olent
thefts,
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And rob | in the | behalf | of char|ity.
CASSANDRA
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It is | the pur|pose that / makes strong | the
vow;
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But vows | to eve|ry pur|pose must / not hold:
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Unarm | sweet^Hec|tor.
HECTOR
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Hold | you still | I say;
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Mine hon|or keeps | the weath|er of | my fate:
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Lie^eve|ry man | holds^dear,| but the / brave man
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Holds^hon|or far | more* pre|cious, dear, | than
life.
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How* now | young^man?| Meanst thou | to fight |
today?
[Enter TROILUS]
ANDROMACHE
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Cassan|dra, call | my fat|her to | persuade.
[Exit CASSANDRA]
HECTOR
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No* faith | young^Troi|lus; doff | thy har|ness
youth:
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I am | today | in the vein | of chi|valry:
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Let grow | thy sin|ews till | their knots | be
strong;
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And tempt | not^yet | the brush|es of | the war.
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Unarm | thee, go;| and doubt | thou* not brave
boy,
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I'll stand | today,| for thee,| and me,| and
Troy.
TROILUS
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Brother,| you have a | vice of | mercy | in you;
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Which bet|ter fits | a li|on, than | a man.
HECTOR
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What vice | is that?| Good* Troi|lus chide | me
for it.
TROILUS
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When ma|ny times | the cap|tive Gre|cian falls,
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Even | in the fan | and wind | of your / fair
sword:
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You bid | them rise,| and live.
HECTOR
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O* 'tis / fair play.
TROILUS
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Fool's play, by | heaven | Hector.|
HECTOR
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How now?| How now?
TROILUS
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For the love | of all | the gods
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Let's leave | the her|mit pi|ty with our |
mothers;
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And when | we have | our arm|ors buck|led on,
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The ven|omed venge|ance ride | upon | our swords,
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Spur them | to ruth|ful work,| rein them | from
ruth.
HECTOR
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Fie, savage, fie.
TROILUS
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Hector,| then 'tis wars.
HECTOR
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Troilus,| I would / not have | you fight | today.
TROILUS
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Who should with|hold me? (pickup)
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Not fate,| obed|ience, nor | the hand | of Mars,
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Beckoning | with fie|ry trun|cheon my | retire;
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Not Pri|amus,| and He|cuba | on knees;
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Their eyes ore|galled with | recourse | of tears;
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Not you | my bro/ther, with your | true sword
drawn
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Opposed | to hind|er me,| should stop | my way:
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But by | my ruin.|
(picked up)
[Enter CASSANDRA, with PRIAM]
CASSANDRA
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Lay hold upon | him Pri|am, hold | him fast:
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He is | thy crutch;| now if | thou lose | thy
stay,
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Thou on | him lean/ing, and | all* Troy | on
thee,
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Fall^all | togeth|er.
PRIAM
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Come^Hec|tor, come,| go* back:
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Thy wife | hath^dreamt:| thy moth|er hath had |
visions;
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Cassan|dra doth | foresee;| and I | myself,
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Am like | a pro|phet sud|denly | enrapt,
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To tell | thee that / this day | is om|inous:
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Therefore | come back.
HECTOR
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Aene|as is | afield,
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And I | do stand | engaged | to ma|ny Greeks,
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Even | in the faith | of val|or, to | appear
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This morn|ing to | them.
PRIAM
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Aye,| but thou shalt | not go.
HECTOR
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I must | not break my | faith:|
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You know | me du|tiful,| therefore | dear* sir,
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Let me | not shame | respect;| but give | me
leave
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To take | that course | by your | consent | and
voice,
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Which you | do here | forbid | me, royal | Priam.
CASSANDRA
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O Pri|am, yield | not to him.
ANDROMACHE
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Do | not dear*| father.
HECTOR
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Andro|mache | I am of|fended | with you:
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Upon | the love | you bear | me, get | you in.
[Exit ANDROMACHE]
TROILUS
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This fool|ish, dream|ing, sup|ersti|tious girl,
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Makes^all | these bode|ments.
CASSANDRA
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O* fare|well, dear*| Hector:
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T T T
Look how | thou diest;| look how thy^|eye turns
pale:
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Look how | thy wounds | do bleed | at ma|ny
vents:
T T T
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Hark how Troy | roars; how He|cuba / cries out;
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How poor | Andro|mache | shrills | her dol|or
forth; (hex with prev)
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Behold | distrac|tion, fren|zy, and a|mazement,
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Like^wit|less an|tics one | anoth|er meet,
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And all cry | Hector,| Hector's | dead:|| O |
Hector!
TROILUS
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Away,| away.|
CASSANDRA
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Farewell:| yes, soft: Hec|tor I take | my leave;
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Thou dost | thyself,| and all | our Troy |
deceive.
[Exit]
HECTOR
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You are | amazed,| my liege,| at her | exclaim:
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Go in | and cheer | the town,| we'll forth | and
fight:
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Do deeds of praise,| and tell | you them | at
night.
PRIAM
Farewell: the gods with safety stand about thee.
[Exeunt severally PRIAM and HECTOR. Alarums]
TROILUS
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They are | at it, hark: Proud | Diomed,| believe
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I come | to lose | my arm,| or win | my sleeve.
[Enter PANDARUS]
PANDARUS
Do you hear my lord? do you hear?
TROILUS
What now?
PANDARUS
Here's a letter come from yond poor girl.
TROILUS
Let me read.
PANDARUS
A whoreson tisick, a whoreson rascally tisick, so troubles me; and the
foolish fortune of this girl, and what one thing, what another, that I shall
leave you one of these days: and I have a rheum in mine eyes too; and such
an ache in my bones; that unless a man were cursed, I cannot tell what to
think on it. What says she there?
TROILUS
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart;
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The effect | doth^o|perate | anoth|er way.
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Go^wind | to wind,| there turn and change
together: ????
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My love | with words | and er|rors still | she
feeds;
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But^e|difies | anoth|er with | her deeds.
PANDARUS
Why, but hear you?
TROILUS
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Hence | brother | lackey;| igno|my and shame
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Pursue | thy life,| and live | aye with | thy
name.
[Exeunt severally]