To judge your case required no great exactness; the army with one consent, that army whom you wronged, handed you over to me to die.HelenMay I answer this decision, proving that my death, if I am to die, will be unjust?MenelausI came not to argue, but to slay you.HecubaHear her, Menelaus; let her not die for want of that, and let me answer her again, for you know nothing of her villainies in Troy; and the whole case, if summed up, will insure her death against all chance of an escape.MenelausThis gift needs leisure; still, if she wishes to speak, she may. Yet I will grant her this because of your words, that she may hear them, and not for her own sake.HelenPerhaps you will not answer me, from counting me a foe, whether my words seem good or ill. Yet I will put my charges and yours over against each other, and then reply to the accusations I suppose you will advance against me. First, then, that woman was the author of these troubles