Sit silent then, that my pleased soul may see

A judging audience once, and worthy me;

My faithful scene from true records shall tell,

How Trojan valour did the Greek excell;

Your great forefathers shall their fame regain,

And Homer's angry ghost repine in vain[1].

Footnote:

  1. The conceit, which our ancestors had adopted, of their descent from Brutus, a fugitive Trojan, induced their poets to load the Grecian chiefs with every accusation of cowardice and treachery, and to extol the character of the Trojans in the same proportion. Hector is always represented as having been treacherously slain.

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ.

Hector,
Troilus,		}
}		Sons of Priam.