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months, it was granted sore against the mind of Hector, who urged it was only to gain time to provide themselves with vic- tuals, of which there was a great scarcity in their camp; whilst the Trojans must con- tinue within the walls and consume their stores of provisions, by which means the enemy would have an opportunity of pro- longing the war, and driving them to a greater extremity.

C H A P. VI.

Now the Greeks conspired the Death of Hec- tor, and how he was slain by Achilles, &c.

THE Greeks finding their estate but bad, concluding that as long as Hec- tor lived, they could not conquer Troy, at last resolved upon a stratagem to take him out of the world, to prevent their return- ing inglorious from this chargeable and bloody war; fo having obtained another truce, they agreed that when Hector came into the battle they should open and give him way, and being entangled amongst the thickest of the troops, they should at once fall upon him, and take the advantage to slay him.

This being concluded, and the truce ex- piring,