Page 2875 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Yonder comes the troop.

Enter all of Troy: Hector, Paris, Aeneas, Helenus, Troilus, and attendants.

AENEAS
Hail, all you state of Greece! What shall be done [65]
To him that victory commands? Or do you purpose
A victor shall be known? Will you the knights

Shall to the edge of all extremity
Pursue each other, or shall be divided
By any voice or order of the field? [70]
Hector bade ask.

AGAMEMNON
Which way would Hector have it?

AENEAS
He cares not; he’ll obey conditions.

AGAMEMNON
’Tis done like Hector −

ACHILLES
But securely done,
A little proudly, and great deal disprizing
The knight opposed.

AENEAS

If not Achilles, sir, [75]
What is your name?

ACHILLES
If not Achilles, nothing.

AENEAS
Therefore, Achilles, but whate’er, know this:
In the extremity of great and little,