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ACT IV IT

Scene I IT

Enter, at one door, Aeneas and a servant with a torch; at another, Paris,
Deiphobus, Antenor, Diomedes the Grecian, and others with torches.

PARIS
See, ho! Who is that there?

DEIPHOBUS
It is the Lord Aeneas.

AENEAS
Is the prince there in person? −

Had I so good occasion to lie long
As you, Prince Paris, nothing but heavenly business [5]
Should rob my bed-mate of my company.

DIOMEDES
That’s my mind too. − Good morrow, Lord Aeneas.

PARIS
A valiant Greek, Aeneas − take his hand −
Witness the process of your speech within;

You told how Diomed a whole week by days [10]
Did haunt you in the field.

AENEAS
Health to you, valiant sir,
During all question of the gentle truce;

But when I meet you armed, as black defiance
As heart can think or courage execute.