Is now bewail'd in ev'ry house of Troy.

Sorrow unutterable thou hast caused

Thy parents, Hector! but to me hast left

Largest bequest of misery, to whom,

Dying, thou neither didst thy arms extend

Forth from thy bed, nor gav'st me precious word,

To be remember'd day and night with tears.

So spake she weeping, whom her maidens all

With sighs accompanied.

(Hecuba takes up the lament.)