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58 And thus o'er-sized with coagulate gore,

With eyes like carbuncles, the hellish Pyrrhus

Old grandsire Priam seeks." [So proceed you.]

Pol. 'Fore God, my lord, well spoken; with

good accent and good discretion.

First Play. "Anon, he finds him

Striking too short at Greeks; his antique sword,

Rebellious to his arm, lies where it falls,

Repugnant to command. Unequal match'd,

Pyrrhus at Priam drives; in rage strikes wide;

But with the whiff and wind of his fell sword

The unnerved father falls. Then senseless Ilium,

Seeming to feel this blow, with flaming top

Stoops to his base, and with a hideous crash

Takes prisoner Pyrrhus' ear: for lo! his sword,

Which was declining on the milky head

Of reverend Priam, seem'd i' the air to stick:

So, as a painted tyrant, Pyrrhus stood,

And like a neutral to his will and matter,

Did nothing.

But, as we often see, against some storm,

A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,

The bold winds speechless and the orb below

As hush as death, anon the dreadful thunder

Doth rend the region; so, after Pyrrhus' pause,

Aroused vengeance sets him new a-work;

And never did the Cyclops' hammers fall

On Mars's armour, forg'd for proof eterne,

 493 o'er-sized: covered with something like size, a kind of glue

501 Repugnant to: resisting

503 fell: cruel

504 senseless: without physical sensation

510 painted tyrant: picture of a tyrant in a tapestry

511 a neutral: one indifferent

matter: task

513 against: just before

514 rack: mass of cloud

516 anon: presently

517 region: the air

520 proof eterne: eternal impenetrability

