Page 2890 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

AGAMEMNON

Good night. [75]
Exeunt Agamemnon and Menelaus.

ACHILLES
Old Nestor tarries, and you too, Diomed;
Keep Hector company an hour or two.

DIOMEDES

I cannot, lord; I have important business,
The tide whereof is now. − Good night, great Hector.

HECTOR
Give me your hand.

ULYSSES
(aside to Troilus) Follow his torch; he goes [80]
To Calchas’ tent. I’ll keep you company.

TROILUS
(aside to Ulysses) Sweet sir, you honour me.

HECTOR
And so, good night.

Exit Diomedes, Ulysses and Troilus following.

ACHILLES
Come, come, enter my tent.
Exeunt Achilles, Hector, Ajax, and Nestor.

THERSITES
That same Diomede’s a false-hearted rogue, a most unjust knave; I will no

more trust him when he [85] leers than I will a serpent when he hisses. He
will spend his mouth, and promise, like Brabbler the hound; but when he
performs, astronomers foretell it, that it is prodigious, there will come some
change. The sun borrows of the moon when Diomed keeps his word. I will
rather [90] leave to see Hector than not to dog him: they say he keeps a