Act V · Scene VII
Another part of the plains.
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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 thegame: 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.
THERSITES
I am a bastard too; I love bastards: I am a bastardbegot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastardin valour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear willnot bite another, and wherefore should one bastard?Take heed, the quarrel's most ominous to us: if theson of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgment:farewell, bastard.
Exit
MARGARELON
The devil take thee, coward!
Exit