Enter Ajax, armed; Agamemnon, Achilles, Patroclus, Menelaus, Ulysses, Nestor, and others.[1996]
Agam. Here art thou in appointment fresh and fair,
Anticipating time with starting courage.[1997]
Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy,
Thou dreadful Ajax, that the appalled air
May pierce the head of the great combatant[1998] 5
And hale him hither.[1998]
Ajax. Thou, trumpet, there's my purse.[1999]
Now crack thy lungs, and split thy brazen pipe:
Blow, villain, till thy sphered bias cheek[2000]
Outswell the colic of puff'd Aquilon:[2001]
Come, stretch thy chest, and let thy eyes spout blood; 10
Thou blow'st for Hector. [Trumpet sounds.[2002]
Ulyss. No trumpet answers.
Achil. 'Tis but early days.[2003]
Agam. Is not yond Diomed, with Calchas' daughter?[2004]
Ulyss. 'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait;
He rises on the toe: that spirit of his[2005] 15
In aspiration lifts him from the earth.
Enter Diomedes, with Cressida.[2006]
Agam. Is this the Lady Cressid?[2007]
Dio. Even she.