“And then, my Englishman!”

CHAPTER XXVI.
BEAUTIFUL PARIS, EVIL-HEARTED PARIS.

What! wouldst thou force me to thine evil will,

And bear me far away in benchèd ships,

A second Helen to a second Troy,

Whose flight would raise a second ten years’ war?

Nay, sir! the gods are dead! and not in me

Beholdest thou proud Aphrodite’s slave.

My judgment’s as I will, and uncontrolled

By Venus, who would fain bestow on thee