Hecuba.

My sorrow! . . . 'Tis but what Talthybius said:
So plain a riddle, and I read it not.

Andromache.

I saw her lie, and stayed this chariot;
And raiment wrapt on her dead limbs, and beat
My breast for her.

Hecuba (to herself).

O the foul sin of it!
The wickedness! My child. My child! Again
I cry to thee. How cruelly art thou slain!

Andromache.

She hath died her death, and howso dark it be,
Her death is sweeter than my misery.

Hecuba.