Achil. I know not; 'tis put to lottery; otherwise
He knew his man. 125
Ajax. O, meaning you. I will go learn more of it.[1312]
[Exeunt.
Scene II. Troy. A room in Priam's palace.[1313]
Enter Priam, Hector, Troilus, Paris, and Helenus.
Pri. After so many hours, lives, speeches spent,[1314]
Thus once again says Nestor from the Greeks:
'Deliver Helen, and all damage else,[1315]
As honour, loss of time, travail, expense,[1316]
Wounds, friends, and what else dear that is consumed 5
In hot digestion of this cormorant war,[1317]
Shall be struck off.' Hector, what say you to't?[1318]
Hect. Though no man lesser fears the Greeks than I
As far as toucheth my particular,[1319][1320]
Yet, dread Priam,[1319] 10
There is no lady of more softer bowels,[1321]
More spongy to suck in the sense of fear,
More ready to cry out 'Who knows what follows?'
Than Hector is: the wound of peace is surety,[1322][1323]
Surety secure: but modest doubt is call'd[1323] 15
The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches
To the bottom of the worst. Let Helen go.[1324]
Since the first sword was drawn about this question,
Every tithe soul, 'mongst many thousand dismes,
Hath been as dear as Helen; I mean, of ours: 20
If we have lost so many tenths of ours,
To guard a thing not ours, nor worth to us,[1325]
Had it our name, the value of one ten,[1326]
What merit's in that reason which denies[1327]
The yielding of her up?
Tro. Fie, fie, my brother! 25
Weigh you the worth and honour of a king,[1328]
So great as our dread father, in a scale[1329]
Of common ounces? will you with counters sum
The past proportion of his infinite?[1330]
And buckle in a waist most fathomless[1331] 30
With spans and inches so diminutive
As fears and reasons? fie, for godly shame![1332]
Hel. No marvel, though you bite so sharp at reasons,[1333]
You are so empty of them. Should not our father[1334]
Bear the great sway of his affairs with reasons,[1335] 35
Because your speech hath none that tells him so?[1336]