The history
11301068Paris should nere retra
ct, what he hath done,
11331071Like one be-
sotted on your
sweet delights,
11341072You haue the hony
still, but the
se the gall,
11351073So to be valiant, is no prai
se at all.
11361074Par. Sir, I propo
se not meerly to my
selfe,
11371075The plea
sures
such a beautie brings with it,
11381076But I would haue the
soile of her faire rape,
11391077Wip't of in honorable keeping her,
11401078What trea
son were it to the ran
sackt queene,
11411079Di
sgrace to your great worths, and
shame to me,
11421080Now to deliuer her po
sse
ssion vp
11431081On tearmes of ba
se compul
sion? can it be,
11441082That
so degenerate a
straine as this,
11451083Should once
set footing in your generous bo
somes?
11461084There's not the meane
st spirit on our party,
11471085Without a heart to dare, or
sword to drawe,
11481086When
Helen is defended: nor none
so noble,
11491087Who
se life were ill be
stowd, or death vnfam'd,
11501088Where
Helen is the
subie
ct. 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 cau
se and que
stion now in hand,
11551093Haue glozd, but
super
ficially, not much
11561094Vnlike young men, whom
Aristotle thought
11571095Vn
fit to heere
Morrall Philosophie;
11581096The rea
sons you alleadge, do more conduce
11591097To the hot pa
ssion of di
stempred blood,
11601098Then to make vp a free determination
11611099Twixt right and wrong: for plea
sure and reuenge,
11621100Haue eares more deafe then Adders to the voyce
11631101Of any true deci
sion. 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 a
ffe
ction
And