Scene V. Another part of the field.
Enter Diomedes and Servant.[2346]
Dio. Go, go, my servant, take thou Troilus' horse;[2347]
Present the fair steed to my lady Cressid:
Fellow, commend my service to her beauty;
Tell her I have chastised the amorous Trojan,
And am her knight by proof.
Ser. I go, my lord. [Exit. 5
Enter Agamemnon.[2348]
Agam. Renew, renew! The fierce Polydamas[2349]
Hath beat down Menon: bastard Margarelon
Hath Doreus prisoner,[2350]
And stands colossus-wise, waving his beam,
Upon the pashed corses of the kings[2351] 10
Epistrophus and Cedius: Polyxenes is slain;[2352]
Amphimachus and Thoas deadly hurt;[2353]
Patroclus ta'en or slain; and Palamedes
Sore hurt and bruised: the dreadful sagittary[2354]
Appals our numbers: haste we, Diomed, 15
To reinforcement, or we perish all.
Enter Nestor.
Nest. Go, bear Patroclus' body to Achilles,[2355]
And bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame.
There is a thousand Hectors in the field:[2356]
Now here he fights on Galathe his horse, 20
And there lacks work; anon he's there afoot,
And there they fly or die, like scaled sculls[2357]
Before the belching whale; then is he yonder,
And there the strawy Greeks, ripe for his edge,[2358]
Fall down before him, like the mower's swath:[2359] 25
Here, there and every where he leaves and takes,[2360]
Dexterity so obeying appetite
That what he will he does, and does so much[2361]
That proof is call'd impossibility.
Enter Ulysses.
Ulyss. O, courage, courage, princes! great Achilles 30
Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance:
Patroclus' wounds have roused his drowsy blood,[2355]
Together with his mangled Myrmidons,
That noseless, handless, hack'd and chipp'd, come to him,
Crying on Hector. Ajax hath lost a friend, 35
And foams at mouth, and he is arm'd, and at it,
Roaring for Troilus; who hath done to-day
Mad and fantastic execution,
Engaging and redeeming of himself,
With such a careless force and forceless care, 40
As if that luck, in very spite of cunning,[2362][2363]
Bade him win all.[2362]