Pyrrhus Monologue from Andromache: A Play in Three Acts

From Andromache: A Play in Three Acts by Gilbert Murray

male · comedic · 56 sec

(Cheerily.) By Hermes, it was he who made the battle! I meant nothing but hunting. (ALCIMEDON: Well done, boy! A true prince, a true prince!) We had driven the deer down over the mountains and we came on a herd of the Napaeans' cattle grazing, right up on the moors. (ANDROMACHE: You promised me you would raid no cattle with him.) By Hermes! They came to us! And the herd-boy never saw us; he was sitting on a stone in the sun, and thinking of nothing. And even then I would not raid the cattle. When suddenly up jumped the herd-boy and looked at us, with his mouth open. And before he knew who we were, I heard a twang!--and there he was with an arrow in his neck! [ (Laughs.)

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