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Helenus

Troilus and Cressida: One of Priam's six sons

Fie, fie, my brother, Weigh you the worth and honor of a king

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Troilus
Fie, fie, my brother,
Weigh you the worth and honor of a king
So great as our dread father’s in a scale
Of common ounces? Will you with counters sum
The past-proportion of his infinite,
And buckle in a waist most fathomless
With spans and inches so diminutive
As fears and reasons? Fie, for godly shame!
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Act 2
Scene 2
Line 26

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