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TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.

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XII.

The Battle.-TROILUS engaging DIOMED and AJAX.-The body of PATROCLUS carried off to ACHILLES from HECTOR.

"Go bear Patroclus' body to Achilles.

ACT V. S. 5.

TROILUS. O traitor, Diomed! turn thy false face, thou

traitor,

And pay thy life thou ow'st me for my horse!

DIO. Ha! art thou there?

AJAX. I'll fight with him alone; stand, Diomed.
Dio. He is my prize, I will not look upon:

Come both, you cogging Greeks, have at you both."

ACT V. S. 6.

XIII.

ACHILLES arming on seeing the dead body of PATROCLUS.

"Great Achilles

Is arming, weeping, cursing, vowing vengeance:
Patroclus' wounds have rous'd his drowsy blood."

ACT V. S. 5.

XIV.

The death of HECTOR.

"ACHILLES. Look, Hector, how the sun begins to set;

How ugly night comes breathing at his heels:

Even with the veil and dark'ning of the

sun,

To close the day up, Hector's life is done.

HECT. I am unarmed: forego this vantage, Greek.

ACHIL. Strike, fellows, strike; this is the man I seek.”

ACT V. S. 9.

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TIMON OF ATHENS.

EIGHT PLATES.

DRAWN AND ENGRAVED

BY FRANK HOWARD.

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