| ACT V 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; | 5 |
| 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- | 10 |
| 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 bastard son of Priam's. | 15 |
| THERSITES | I am a bastard too; I love bastards: I am a bastard |
| begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard |
| in valour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear will |
| not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard? |
| Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if the | 20 |
| son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgment: |
| farewell, bastard. |
| [Exit] |
| MARGARELON | The devil take thee, coward! |
| [Exit] |
Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida: Scenes and Commentary