The Argument.
Troy
had now withstood ten years Seige,
and with incomparable valour resisted the
Greeks, when at last her Champion Hector being
taken, through the Treachery of a Stratagem,
she was sack'd, fir'd, and brought to ruine
and destruction. The Greeks intending now
to depart to their long left homes, were by a
contrary wind stayed, when the Ghost of
Achilles appearing, commands them not to stir
thence, till they had immolated the Princess
Polyxena (under the pretext of a marriage) to
his Ghost. Chalcas their Prophet being consulted,
he gives judgement, that not only the
Princely Virgin must dye, but that also Astyanax
the Son of Hector, must be flung from the
Top of a high Tower in Troy. Which Tragedies
being accordingly acted, the Greeks hoist Sails
and depart loaden with Captives, Riches, and
Glory.
