HECTOR
Most putrified core so fair without,
goodly armour thus cost life.
Now is my day’s work done; I’ll take my breath:
Rest, sword; fill of blood and death!
ACHILLES
Look, Hector, how the sun begins to set,
How ugly night comes breathing at his heels;
Even with the vail and dark’ning of the sun,
To close the day up, Hector’s life is done.
HECTOR
I am unarm’d; forego this vantage, Greek.
ACHILLES
Strike, fellows, strike; this is the man I seek.
ACHILLES
So, Ilion, fall next! Now, Troy, sink down;
Here lies heart, sinews, and bone.
On, Myrmidons, and cry you all amain
‘Achilles the mighty Hector slain.’
ACHILLES
Hark! a retire upon our Grecian part.
MYRMIDON
The Trojan trumpets sound the like, my lord.
ACHILLES
The dragon wing of night o’erspreads the earth
And, stickler-like, the armies separates.
My half-supp’d sword, that frankly would have fed,
Pleas’d with this dainty bait, thus goes to bed.
ACHILLES
Come, tie his body to my horse’s tail;
Along the field I will the Trojan trail.