[Enter Pyrrhus and Agamemnon.]

Pyrrhus: Now that you homeward fare, and on the sea

Your joyful sails would spread, my noble sire

Is quite forgot, though by his single hand

Was mighty Troy o'erthrown; for, though his death205

Some respite granted to the stricken town,

She stood but as some sorely smitten tree,

That sways uncertain, choosing where to fall.

Though even now ye seek to make amends

For your neglect, and haste to grant the thing