Cleom. That's my boy, my hopeful lion's whelp.

[Takes and kisses him.

Cleor. So Hector hugged his young Astyanax;

Went out to fight, and never saw him more.

Cleon. But why did not Astyanax go with Hector?

Crat. Because he was a child, and could not go.

Cleon. Was he a Spartan child?

Cleor. Oh no! a Trojan.

Cleon. There's it, a Trojan child. But grant me this,

There are no Spartan children; we are born men;