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HECUBA<br />

What of that other child<br />

Ye reft from me but now?<br />

TALTHYBIUS (speaking with some constraint)<br />

Polyxena? Or what child meanest thou?<br />

HECUBA<br />

The same. What man now hath her, or what doom?<br />

TALTHYBIUS<br />

She rests apart, to watch Achilles' tomb.<br />

HECUBA<br />

To watch a tomb? My daughter? What is this? . . .<br />

Speak, Friend? What fashion of the laws of Greece?<br />

TALTHYBIUS<br />

Count thy maid happy! She hath naught of ill<br />

To fear . . .<br />

HECUBA<br />

What meanest thou? She liveth still?<br />

TALTHYBIUS<br />

I mean, she hath one toil that holds her free<br />

From all toil else.<br />

HECUBA<br />

What of Andromache,<br />

Wife of mine iron-hearted Hector, where<br />

Journeyeth she?<br />

TALTHYBIUS<br />

Pyrrhus, Achilles' son, hath taken her.<br />

HECUBA<br />

And I, whose slave am I,<br />

The shaken head, the arm that creepeth by,<br />

Staff-crutched, like to fall?<br />

TALTHYBIUS<br />

Odysseus, Ithaca's king, hath thee for thrall.<br />

HECUBA<br />

Beat, beat the crownless head:<br />

Rend the cheek till the tears run red!

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