Scene II. The same. A street.
Enter Cressida and Alexander her man.[979]
Cres. Who were those went by?
Alex. Queen Hecuba and Helen[980]
Cres. And whither go they?
Alex. Up to the eastern tower.
Whose height commands as subject all the vale,
To see the battle. Hector, whose patience[981]
Is as a virtue fix'd, to-day was moved:[982] 5
He chid Andromache and struck his armourer;[983]
And, like as there were husbandry in war,
Before the sun rose he was harness'd light,[984]
And to the field goes he; where every flower
Did, as a prophet, weep what it foresaw 10
In Hector's wrath.
Cres. What was his cause of anger?
Alex. The noise goes, this: there is among the Greeks[985]
A lord of Trojan blood, nephew to Hector;
They call him Ajax.
Cres. Good; and what of him?
Alex. They say he is a very man per se,[986][987] 15
And stands alone.[986]