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PANDARUS
So he has.
CRESSIDA
Then Troilus should have too much. If she praised him above, his complexion
is higher than his; he having colour enough, and the other higher, is too
flaming a praise for a good complexion. I had as lief Helen’s [105] golden
tongue had commended Troilus for a copper nose.
PANDARUS
I swear to you, I think Helen loves him better than Paris.
CRESSIDA
Then she’s a merry Greek indeed. [110]
PANDARUS
Nay, I am sure she does. She came to him th’other day into the compassed
window − and you know he has not past three or four hairs on his chin −
CRESSIDA
Indeed, a tapster’s arithmetic may soon bring his particulars therein to a
total. [115]
PANDARUS
Why, he is very young, and yet will he within three pound lift as much as his
brother Hector.
CRESSIDA
Is he so young a man, and so old a lifter?
PANDARUS
But to prove to you that Helen loves him, she came and puts me her white
hand to his cloven chin − [120]
CRESSIDA
Juno have mercy, how came it cloven?
