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Act V, Scene 7
1Another part of the plains.
2Enter Achilles, with Myrmidons.
3AchillesCome here about me, you my Myrmidons;
Mark what I say. Attend me where I wheel:
Strike not a stroke, but keep yourselves in breath:
And when I have the bloody Hector found,
Empale him with your weapons round about;
In fellest manner execute your aims.
Follow me, sirs, and my proceedings eye:
It is decreed Hector the great must die. Exeunt.
4Enter Menelaus and Paris, fighting: then Thersites.
5ThersitesThe cuckold and the cuckold-maker are at it. Now, bull! now, dog! ’Loo, Paris, ’loo! now my double-henned sparrow! ’loo, Paris, ’loo! The bull has the game: ware horns, ho! Exeunt Paris and Menelaus.
6Enter Margarelon.
7MargarelonTurn, slave, and fight.
8ThersitesWhat art thou?
9MargarelonA bastard son of Priam’s.
10ThersitesI am a bastard too; I love bastards: I am a bastard begot, bastard instructed, bastard in mind, bastard in valour, in every thing illegitimate. One bear will not bite another, and wherefore should one bastard? Take heed, the quarrel’s most ominous to us: if the son of a whore fight for a whore, he tempts judgment: farewell, bastard. Exit.
11MargarelonThe devil take thee, coward! Exit.