11301068Paris should nere retract, what he hath done,

11311069Nor faint in the pursuite,

11321070Pria. Paris you speake

11331071Like one be-sotted on your sweet delights,

11341072You haue the hony still, but these the gall,

11351073So to be valiant, is no praise at all.

11361074Par. Sir, I propose not meerly to my selfe,

11371075The pleasures such a beautie brings with it,

11381076But I would haue the soile of her faire rape,

11391077Wip't of in honorable keeping her,

11401078What treason were it to the ransackt queene,

11411079Disgrace to your great worths, and shame to me,

11421080Now to deliuer her possession vp

11431081On tearmes of base compulsion? can it be,

11441082That so degenerate a straine as this,

11451083Should once set footing in your generous bosomes?

11461084There's not the meanest spirit on our party,

11471085Without a heart to dare, or sword to drawe,

11481086When Helen is defended: nor none so noble,

11491087Whose life were ill bestowd, or death vnfam'd,

11501088Where Helen is the subiect. Then I say,

11511089Well may we fight for her, whom we know well,

11521090The worlds large spaces cannot paralell.

11531091Hect. Paris and Troylus, you haue both said well,

11541092And on the cause and question now in hand,

11551093Haue glozd, but superficially, not much

11561094Vnlike young men, whom Aristotle thought

11571095Vnfit to heere Morrall Philosophie;

11581096The reasons you alleadge, do more conduce

11591097To the hot passion of distempred blood,

11601098Then to make vp a free determination

11611099Twixt right and wrong: for pleasure and reuenge,

11621100Haue eares more deafe then Adders to the voyce

11631101Of any true decision. Nature craues

11641102All dues be rendred to their owners. Now

11651103What neerer debt in all humanitie,

11661104Then wife is to the husband? if this lawe

11671105Of nature be corrupted through affection