Page 2879 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

HECTOR

We’ll answer it;
The issue is embracement. Ajax, farewell.

AJAX
If I might in entreaties find success,
As seld I have the chance, I would desire [150]

My famous cousin to our Grecian tents.

DIOMEDES
’Tis Agamemnon’s wish; and great Achilles
Doth long to see unarmed the valiant Hector.

HECTOR
Aeneas, call my brother Troilus to me,
And signify this loving interview [155]

To the expecters of our Trojan part;
Desire them home. − Give me thy hand, my cousin;
I will go eat with thee, and see your knights.
Agamemnon and the rest come forward.

AJAX

Great Agamemnon comes to meet us here.

HECTOR

The worthiest of them tell me name by name; [160]
But for Achilles, mine own searching eyes
Shall find him by his large and portly size.

AGAMEMNON
Worthy of arms, as welcome as to one
That would be rid of such an enemy! −

But that’s no welcome; understand more clear, [165]
What’s past and what’s to come is strewed with husks
And formless ruin of oblivion;

But in this extant moment, faith and troth,
Strained purely from all hollow bias-drawing,