Troilus and Cressida

Scene IX

Another part of the plains.

Enter Agamemnon, Ajax, Menelaus, Nestor, Diomedes, and others, marching. Shouts within.
Agamemnon	Hark! hark! what shout is that?
Nestor	Peace, drums! Within. Achilles! Achilles! Hector’s slain! Achilles!
Diomedes	The bruit is, Hector’s slain, and by Achilles.
Ajax	If it be so, yet bragless let it be; Great Hector was a man as good as he.
Agamemnon	March patiently along: let one be sent To pray Achilles see us at our tent. If in his death the gods have us befriended, Great Troy is ours, and our sharp wars are ended. Exeunt, marching.

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