Page 2774 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Alas, poor chin, many a wart is richer.

PANDARUS
But there was such laughing − Queen Hecuba laughed that her eyes ran o’er
−

CRESSIDA
With millstones. [145]

PANDARUS
And Cassandra laughed −

CRESSIDA
But there was more temperate fire under the pot of her eyes; did her eyes

run o’er too?

PANDARUS
And Hector laughed.

CRESSIDA
At what was all this laughing? [150]

PANDARUS
Marry, at the white hair that Helen spied on Troilus’ chin.

CRESSIDA
An’t had been a green hair I should have laughed too.

PANDARUS
They laughed not so much at the hair as at his [155] pretty answer.

CRESSIDA
What was his answer?

PANDARUS

Quoth she: ‘Here’s but two and fifty hairs on your chin, and one of them is