Her next announcement comes as a still heavier blow to Hecuba:
Polyxena, thy daughter, is no more;
Devoted to Achilles, on his tomb,
An offering to the lifeless dead, she fell.
Andromache insists that Polyxena's fate is happier than her own; argues that in death there is no sense of misery:
Polyxena is dead, and of her ills
Knows nothing;
while Andromache still lives to feel the keen contrast between her former and her present lot.
Hecuba is so sunk in woe that she can make no protest, but advises Andromache to forget the past and
honor thy present lord,