Page 2804 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Or like a star disorbed? Nay, if we talk of reason,
Let’s shut our gates and sleep. Manhood and honour
Should have hare-hearts, would they but fat their thoughts
With this crammed reason; reason and respect

Make livers pale and lustihood deject. [50]

HECTOR
Brother,
She is not worth what she doth cost the holding.

TROILUS
What’s aught but as ’tis valued?

HECTOR
But value dwells not in particular will;

It holds his estimate and dignity [55]
As well wherein ’tis precious of itself
As in the prizer. ’Tis mad idolatry
To make the service greater than the god;
And the will dotes that is inclinable

To what infectiously itself affects, [60]
Without some image of th’affected merit.

TROILUS
I take today a wife, and my election
Is led on in the conduct of my will,

My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears,
Two traded pilots ‘twixt the dangerous shores [65]
Of will and judgement: how may I avoid,
Although my will distaste what it elected,

The wife I chose? There can be no evasion
To blench from this, and to stand firm by honour.
We turn not back the silks upon the merchant [70]
When we have spoiled them; nor the remainder viands

We do not throw in unrespective sieve
Because we now are full. It was thought meet
Paris should do some vengeance on the Greeks:
Your breath of full consent bellied his sails; [75]