Himself! no, he's not himself: would a' were himself! Well, the gods are above; time must friend or end: well, Troilus, well: I would my heart were in her body. No, Hector is not a better man than Troilus. Excuse me. He is elder. Pardon me, pardon me. Th' other's not come to't; you shall tell me another tale, when th' other's come to't. Hector shall not have his wit this year. He shall not need it, if he have his own. Nor his qualities. No matter. Nor his beauty. 'Twould not become him; his own's better. You have no judgment, niece: Helen herself swore th' other day, that Troilus, for a brown favour--for so 'tis, I must confess,-- not brown neither,-- No, but brown. 'Faith, to say truth, brown and not brown. To say the truth, true and not true. She praised his complexion above Paris. Why, Paris hath colour enough. So he has. 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 golden tongue had commended Troilus for a copper nose. I swear to you. I think Helen loves him better than Paris. Then she's a merry Greek indeed. 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,-- Indeed, a tapster's arithmetic may soon bring his particulars therein to a total. Why, he is very young: and yet will he, within three pound, lift as much as his brother Hector. Is he so young a man and so old a lifter? But to prove to you that Helen loves him: she came and puts me her white hand to his cloven chin-- Juno have mercy! how came it cloven? Why, you know 'tis dimpled: I think his smiling becomes him better than any man in all Phrygia. O, he smiles valiantly. Does he not? O yes, an 'twere a cloud in autumn. Why, go to, then: but to prove to you that Helen loves Troilus,-- Troilus will stand to the proof, if you'll prove it so. Troilus! why, he esteems her no more than I esteem an addle egg. If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' the shell. I cannot