Agamemnon: Why then didst thou a kingly life despoil?
Pyrrhus: But mercy oft doth offer death for life.
Agamemnon: Doth mercy now demand a maiden's blood?330
Pyrrhus: Canst thou proclaim such sacrifice a sin?
Agamemnon: A king must love his country more than child.
Pyrrhus: No law the wretched captive's life doth spare.
Agamemnon: What law forbids not, this let shame forbid.
Pyrrhus: 'Tis victor's right to do whate'er he will.335
Agamemnon: Then should he will the least who most can do.
Pyrrhus: Dost thou boast thus, from whose tyrannic reign