Aeneas: How now? are tidings come of some secret stratagem set on
foot during the night by the foe?
Hector: They are flying, these foes of ours, and going aboard their ships.
Aeneas: What sure proof canst thou give of this?
Hector: The livelong night they are kindling blazing torches; methinks
they will not wait for the morrow, but after lighting brands upon
their ships' decks will leave this and to their homes.
Aeneas: And thou, wherefore dost thou gird thee with thy sword?
Hector: With my spear will I stop them even as they fly and leap aboard
their ships, and my hand shail be heavy upon them; for shameful it
were in us, aye, and cowardly as well as shameful, when God gives
them into our hands, to let our foes escape without a blow after all
the injuries they have done us.
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