Ulysses: Ulysses' valor do the Grecians know

Full well, and all too well the Phrygians.

But we are wasting time with empty words.

The impatient ships are tugging at their chains.

Andromache: But grant a brief delay, while to my son760

I pay the rites of woe, and sate my grief

With tears and last embrace.

Ulysses: I would 'twere mine

To spare thy tears; but what alone I may,

I'll give thee respite and a time for grief.