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’Twas all thy work.—Judge thou, and we obey.
HECTOR.
My word is simple. Arm and face the foe.
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[A sound of marching without.
LEADER.
Who comes? Aeneas, and in haste, as though
Fraught with some sudden tiding of the night.
Enter AENEAS.
AENEAS.
Hector, what means it? Watchers in affright
Who gather shouting at thy doors, and then
Hold midnight council, shaking all our men?
HECTOR.
To arms, Aeneas! Arm from head to heel!
AENEAS.
What is it? Tidings? Doth the Argive steal
Some march, some ambush in the day’s eclipse?
HECTOR.
’Tis flight, man! They are marching to the ships.
AENEAS.
How know’st thou?—Have we proof that it is flight?
HECTOR.
They are burning beacon-fires the livelong night.
They never mean to wait till dawn. Behind
That screen of light they are climbing in the blind
Dark to their ships—unmooring from our coast.
AENEAS.(looking toward the distant fires: after a pause)
God guide them!—Why then do you arm the host?
HECTOR.
I mean to lame them in their climbing, I
And my good spear, and break them as they fly.
Black shame it were, and folly worse than shame,
To let these spoilers go the road they came
Unpunished, when God gives them to us here.
AENEAS.
Brother, I would thy wit were like thy spear![*]
But Nature wills not one man should be wise
In all things; each must seek his separate prize.
And thine is battle pure. There comes this word
Of beacons, on the touch thy soul is stirred:
They fly! Out horse and chariots!—Out withal
Past stake and trench, while night hangs like a pall!
Say, when we cross that coiling depth of dyke,

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