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Speaker 1: Section four of the Oristea. This is a LibriVox recording.
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Speaker 1: Oristea by Eschylus, translated by E. D. A. Moore's Heead
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Speaker 1: Section four. The Libation Bearers, Part.
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Speaker 2: Two, Many and marvelous, the things of fear Earth's breast
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Speaker 2: dot bear and as they see slap with many monsters,
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Speaker 2: teams and windy levin bolts and meteor gleams, breathe many
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Speaker 2: deadly things unknown, and then flying forms with fear upon
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Speaker 2: their wings, and in their tread is its death and
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Speaker 2: rationing rural winds of whose blastening breath, mass, tongue can't tell,
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Speaker 2: But you can't tell, aright. The fiercer thing, the all
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Speaker 2: the soul within a man's breast and inhabiting Who tell,
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Speaker 2: how has fraught?
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Speaker 3: And love?
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Speaker 2: This troth the woman's eager craving thought doth wed mankind
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Speaker 2: to go and ruin fell? Ye, how loveless love that
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Speaker 2: doth possess the women? Even aldness the friend and rest
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Speaker 2: apart with eager strife, the link of weathered life. Let
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Speaker 2: him be the witness, whose thoughts is not born on
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Speaker 2: light wings through the air, but with knowledge brought by
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Speaker 2: all years despair. But she marred the live grace of
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Speaker 2: her son with ill counsel, rekindled of the lame that
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Speaker 2: was quenched, as glowed on the brand. What time from
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Speaker 2: his mother he came with the cry of a new
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Speaker 2: born child, and the brand from the burning she won,
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Speaker 2: for the faith had foretold it evil in life and
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Speaker 2: d death with her son. Ye, and a man hate
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Speaker 2: tells of another, Ye live in Scilla, a murderous gul
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Speaker 2: who slew for him and enemy's sake. Her father won
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Speaker 2: over the word, while and the gifts of Cleata menminous,
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Speaker 2: the god of the high rod gold. For she clipped
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Speaker 2: from her father's head the luck that she never was old,
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Speaker 2: as she breathed in the silence of the leap, and
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Speaker 2: knew not her craft and her crime, but hermes the
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Speaker 2: guard of the dead, doth grasp her in fullness of time.
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Speaker 2: And since the crimes of the cruel, I tell let
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Speaker 2: my singing record the little wedlock and loveless the the
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Speaker 2: curse on these hall a outward, the crafty of the
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Speaker 2: vice of a woman, whereby did the chieftain, fall, a
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Speaker 2: warrior's stern in his wrath, the fear of his enemies.
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Speaker 2: All a song of this dishonor untimely and cold is
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Speaker 2: the hearth that was warm en rouled by the cowardly.
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Speaker 2: Spare the women's unwomanly are arm. But the summit and
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Speaker 2: crown of all crimes is that which in Lemnos befell
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Speaker 2: a woe, and the morning it is a shame and
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Speaker 2: the spitting to tell. And he that the time doth
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Speaker 2: speak of his deadliest thought doth say it is to
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Speaker 2: do the thee that of the old time in ladness
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Speaker 2: was wrought and loathed the men with the doers, and
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Speaker 2: perished they and their seed, for the gods brought haste
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Speaker 2: upon them. None loveth the Indian seed. It is well
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Speaker 2: of the details to tell, For the sword and the
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Speaker 2: progress of the right right with the cleaving appiercing blow
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Speaker 2: to the heart of might, and the deed unlawfully done,
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Speaker 2: is not trodden down nor forgot. When the sinner out
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Speaker 2: steppeth the law and heedeth the high gods. Not but
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Speaker 2: justice hath planted at the anvil and DestinE for the sword,
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Speaker 2: that all might in her chosen time by her is
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Speaker 2: that chaw is restored, and darkly devising the fiend of
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Speaker 2: the house world Hurst will repay the prize of the
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Speaker 2: blood of the slain, that in.
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Speaker 1: The by gone day arrestes and pilotes enter in guise
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Speaker 1: of travelers, arrestes knocks at the palace gate.
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Speaker 3: What ho, slave, ho I smite the palace gate in vain,
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Speaker 3: it seems what ho attend within? Once more attend come
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Speaker 3: forth and up the halls. If yet adjist, this holds
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Speaker 3: them hospitable.
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Speaker 1: A slave speaks from within anon Anon, he opens the door.
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Speaker 4: Speak from what land art thou, and sent from whom.
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Speaker 3: Go tell to them who rule the palace halls, Since
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Speaker 3: tis to them I come with tidings new delay, not
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Speaker 3: Knight's dark car is speeding on, and time is now
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Speaker 3: for wayfarers to cast anchor in haven. Whereso'era a house
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Speaker 3: doth welcome strangers, that there now come forth some one
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Speaker 3: who holds authority within the queen, or if some man
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Speaker 3: more seemly were it. For when man standeth face to
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Speaker 3: face with man, no stammering modesty confounds their speech. But
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Speaker 3: each to each doth tell his meaning clear clytemnestra enters.
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Speaker 5: Speak on O strangers, have ye need of aught? Here
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Speaker 5: is what e'er beseems a house like this, warm bath
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Speaker 5: and bed tired, Nature's soft restorer, and courteous eyes to
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Speaker 5: greet you. And if aught of graver import needeth act
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Speaker 5: as well that as man's charge, I to a man
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Speaker 5: will tell.
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Speaker 3: A doolinging man. Am I from Phoss bound, And as
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Speaker 3: with mine own travel script self laden, I went towards Argos,
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Speaker 3: parting hitherward with traveling foot. There did encounter me one
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Speaker 3: whom I knew not, and who knew not me, but
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Speaker 3: ask my purposed way, nor hid his own, And as
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Speaker 3: we talked together, told his name Stropheus of Phosis. Then
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Speaker 3: he said, good sir, Since in all case thou art
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Speaker 3: to Argos bound, forget not this my message, heed it
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Speaker 3: well tell to his own orestes is no more? And
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Speaker 3: what swere his kin folk shall resolve whether to bear
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Speaker 3: his dust unto his home or lay him here in
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Speaker 3: death as erst in life exiled. For I a child
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Speaker 3: of banishment, bring me their hest upon thy backward road.
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Speaker 3: For now in brazen compass of an urn, his ashes
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Speaker 3: lie their dues of weeping paid so much I heard,
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Speaker 3: and so much tell to thee, not knowing if I
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Speaker 3: speak unto his kin who rule his home. But well
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Speaker 3: I deem it were such news should earliest reach a
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Speaker 3: parent's ear.
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Speaker 5: Ah, woe is me thy word our ruin tells from
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Speaker 5: roof tree unto base. Are we despoil'd o thou whom
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Speaker 5: nevermore we wrestle down thou fury of this home, How
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Speaker 5: oft and oft thou dost descry what far aloof is laid?
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Speaker 5: Yea from afar dost bend the unerring bow and rendest
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Speaker 5: from my wretchedness its friends, as now orestes, who a
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Speaker 5: brief while, since safe from the mire of death, stood
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Speaker 5: warlly was the holmes hope to cure the exalting wrong.
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Speaker 5: Now thou ordainest let the ill abide.
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Speaker 3: To host and hostest, Thus with fortune blest lief, had
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Speaker 3: I come with better news to bear unto your greeting
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Speaker 3: and acquaintanceship, For what good will lies deeper than the
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Speaker 3: bond of guests and hosts, and wrong aboard it were
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Speaker 3: as will I deem, If I who pledge my faith
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Speaker 3: to one and greetings from the other, had or not
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Speaker 3: aright the tidings TwixT the twain.
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Speaker 5: What e'er thy news, thou shalt not welcome, lack meet
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Speaker 5: and deserv'd, nor scant our grace shall be hadt them
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Speaker 5: thyself not come such tale to tell another sure had
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Speaker 5: borne it to our ears. But lo, the hour is
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Speaker 5: here when traveling guests, fresh from the day long labor
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Speaker 5: of the road, should win their rightful due. Take him
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Speaker 5: within to the man chamber's hospitable, rest him, and these
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Speaker 5: fellow farers at his side. Give them such guest right
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Speaker 5: as beseems our halls. I bid thee do as thou
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Speaker 5: shalt answer for it, And I unto the prince who
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Speaker 5: rules our home, will tell the tale, And since we
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Speaker 5: lack not friends with them, will counsel how this hap to.
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Speaker 1: Bear Clytemnestra exits.
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Speaker 2: So be it done, sister servants, when draws my time
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Speaker 2: allowed to and viary O Holy Earth and holy too
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Speaker 2: old heaths on high where low doth lie the king
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Speaker 2: of Phips, the army Lord. Now is the hour, give
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Speaker 2: ear and come, for now thouth craft her aid, theford,
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Speaker 2: and her knees guard shade, and hell stands o'er their
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Speaker 2: strife tis sentinel the dooming of the sword. I wat
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Speaker 2: the stranger wor worketh woe within, For lo I see
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Speaker 2: come forth suffused with tears, Erethes nurse, what ho calysa
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Speaker 2: thou the doors where goest thou meetings some grief unbidden
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Speaker 2: walketh at thy side?
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Speaker 1: Enter Calissa a nurse.
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Speaker 6: My mistress bids me with what speed I may call
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Speaker 6: in aegisthus to the stranger guests, that he may come, and,
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Speaker 6: standing face to face a man with men, may thus
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Speaker 6: more clearly learn this rumor new. Thus speaking to her slaves,
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Speaker 6: she hid beneath the glance of fictive grief laughter for
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Speaker 6: what is wrought to her desire to well, But ill, ill,
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Speaker 6: ill besets the house brought by the tale these guests
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Speaker 6: have told so clear. And he God WoT will gladden
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Speaker 6: all his heart hearing this rumor woe and well a
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Speaker 6: day the bitter mingled cup of ancient woes hard to
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Speaker 6: be borne, that here in Atreus's house befell was grievous
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Speaker 6: to mine inmost heart. But never yet did I endure
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Speaker 6: such pain. All else I bore with set soul patiently.
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Speaker 6: But now a lac alac o'restes dear the day and
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Speaker 6: night long travail of my soul, whom from his mother's
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Speaker 6: womb a new born child I clasped and cherish'd many
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Speaker 6: a time, and oft toilsome and profitless. My service was
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Speaker 6: when his shrill outcry call'd me from my couch for
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Speaker 6: the young child before the sense is born. Hath but
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Speaker 6: a dumb thing's life must needs be as its own
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Speaker 6: nature bids. The swaddled thing hath nought of speech. Whate'er discomfort, come,
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Speaker 6: hunger or thirst or lower weakling need. For the babe's
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Speaker 6: stomach works its own relief, which, knowing well before yet
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Speaker 6: oft surprised, twas mine to cleanse the swaddling clothes, poor
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Speaker 6: eye was nurse to tend, and fuller to make white.
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Speaker 6: Two works in one, two handicrafts I took when in
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Speaker 6: mine arms the father laid the boy. And now he's dead,
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Speaker 6: alack and well a day. Yet must I go to
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Speaker 6: him whose wrongful power pollutes this house? Fair tidings? These
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Speaker 6: to him?
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Speaker 7: Say?
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Speaker 2: Then with what hurry? She bids him?
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Speaker 6: Come? What sayest thou speak more clearly? For mine?
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Speaker 2: Ear bid string henchman, or to come alone?
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Speaker 6: She bids him bring a spear armed body guard.
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Speaker 2: Nay, tell not that unto our loath, said lord, but
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Speaker 2: speed to him. But on the mean of joy, say
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Speaker 2: come along, fear not the news is good? Can tell
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Speaker 2: street a twisted.
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Speaker 6: Tale does then thy mind in this new tale find joy.
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Speaker 2: But our ill wind fearer to fair.
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Speaker 6: And how the Holmes hope with Orestes dies.
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Speaker 2: Not yet a sere, though feeble this might see.
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Speaker 6: What sayest thou knowst thou art this tale, belying?
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Speaker 2: Go tell the news to him. Perform thyst what the
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Speaker 2: God's will themselves can well provide.
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Speaker 6: Well. I will go herein obeying thee, and luck fall
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Speaker 6: fair with favor sent from heaven.
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Speaker 7: Calissa exits Zeus, sire of Adam, who on Olympus dwell
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Speaker 7: hear thou, oh here, my far grant to my rightful
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Speaker 7: lad lords to prosper well, even as their zeal is
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Speaker 7: fair for right for right goes up.
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Speaker 2: Allow my cry. Zeus aid him stand an eye into
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Speaker 2: his fos hall. He goes to smite his father's foes,
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Speaker 2: Bid him prevail by thee unthrone of twice ye twice
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Speaker 2: with joy, show ye quit the death. But think thee
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Speaker 2: the young steel, the orphan and full of sire beloved
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Speaker 2: by onto the car of doom, his harness past, guide
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Speaker 2: him aright, plant firm, elasting goal, speed thou his pace, O,
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Speaker 2: that no chance may mar the homeword course the last,
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Speaker 2: And ye who all within the inner chamber where shines
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Speaker 2: the storied joy of gold, God of one heart, O
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Speaker 2: hear ye, and remember up and avenge of the blood
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Speaker 2: shed forth of old with sudden, rightful low. Then let
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Speaker 2: the old curse die, nor be renewed with partonly of
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Speaker 2: blood once more, and and not again be latter guilt.
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Speaker 2: Lay low, O thou who doowe els in Delvi's mighty cave,
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Speaker 2: grant us to see this is home once more, with
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Speaker 2: sword unto its rightful lord. Lett it look forth from
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Speaker 2: provails of death with joyous eye unto the dawning light
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Speaker 2: of a liberty. And Hermes Maya's child lent hand to
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Speaker 2: save wil ailing the r right, and the guide our
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Speaker 2: state with fortune, breeze adown the favoring hide whatever in
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Speaker 2: the darkness hidden in my lies he utters at as
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Speaker 2: his will. He he at his will, throws darkness on
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Speaker 2: our eye by night and each by day, inscrutable. Then
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Speaker 2: then shallow wealth atone the ills that here were done,
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Speaker 2: then then will we unbind, fleeing free on unwafting wind
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Speaker 2: of joy. The woman's voice that it will is now
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Speaker 2: in piercing accents, for a chief laid low, And this
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Speaker 2: our songs shall be held to the commonwealth restored, Hail
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Speaker 2: to the free, woe unto me all hell for doom
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Speaker 2: hath passed from him my well love the Lord, and
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Speaker 2: thou o child, when when time en chance, free up
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Speaker 2: to the deed that for thy sire is done, And
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Speaker 2: that if she well unto thee spare O son, cry
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Speaker 2: aid O father, and the chief the deed the horror
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Speaker 2: of a man's tongue, but God's great need hold in
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Speaker 2: thy breast such heart as Perseus had the bitter woe
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Speaker 2: were it for appease, the summons of the dead, the
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Speaker 2: wrath of friends on earth, Ye said it within a
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Speaker 2: sign of blood and a doom, and due to utter death,
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Speaker 2: him that pollutes.
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Speaker 1: Thy home aegus thus enters.
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Speaker 8: Hither, and not unsummoned have I come for a new
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Speaker 8: rumor born by stranger men arriving hither hath attained mine
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Speaker 8: ears of hap unwished for even orest these death, this
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Speaker 8: were new sorrow a blood bolted load laid on the
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Speaker 8: house that doth already bow, beneath a former wound that
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Speaker 8: festers deep. Dare I opine these words have truth and life?
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Speaker 8: Or are they tales of woman's terror, born that fly
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Speaker 8: in the void air and die disproved? Canst thou tell
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Speaker 8: aught and prove it to my soul what.
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Speaker 2: We have heard we heard? Go thou within thyself to
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Speaker 2: act the strangers of their tale, strengthless through another herd
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Speaker 2: question is his tought?
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Speaker 8: I too will meet and test the messenger, whether himself
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Speaker 8: stood witness of the death, or tells it merely from
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Speaker 8: dim rumor learnt. None shall cheat me.
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Speaker 1: Whose soul hath watchful eyes exits?
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Speaker 2: Zeus, zeus, What word to me is given? What trial
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Speaker 2: or prayer invoking heaven shall first by me be uttered?
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Speaker 2: What speech or craft, nor all revealing, nor all too
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Speaker 2: worrily concealing? And my speech shall aid the deed, for
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Speaker 2: low in readiness is laid the dark emprise, the rending blade,
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Speaker 2: blood dropping daggers shall achieve the dateless doom of Nature's name,
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Speaker 2: or kindly torch and joy full flame in sign of
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Speaker 2: new one liberty once more, orestes shall retrieve his father's wealth,
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Speaker 2: and throned down high shall hold the city's field tree.
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Speaker 2: So mighty is the grasp whereby heaven open he shall
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Speaker 2: trip and then thrownded a double foe Ho for the victory.
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Speaker 1: A loud cry is heard from within.
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Speaker 6: Help Help was ho there?
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Speaker 3: Ho?
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Speaker 2: How is this with within? It is done? It's over?
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Speaker 2: Then we hear aloof while it is wroth that that guildless,
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Speaker 2: we may may seem of this dark deed with death
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Speaker 2: his trifle fulfilled.
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Speaker 1: A slave enters, Oh woe, Oh woe, my lord is
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Speaker 1: done to death? Whoa whoe and woe.
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Speaker 4: Again against thus is gone? Hasten fling wide the doors,
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Speaker 4: unloose the bolts of the Queen's chamber. Ohe for some
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Speaker 4: young strength to match the need. But ad of baileth
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Speaker 4: nought to him laid low forever Help help, help, sure
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Speaker 4: to deaf ears, I shout and call in vain to
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Speaker 4: slumber in effectual, what ho the queen? How fareth Clytemnestra's
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Speaker 4: self her neck too, hers is close upon the steel,
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Speaker 4: and soon shall sink hewn through as justice wills.
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Speaker 1: Clytemnestra enters, what ails thee raising this ado for.
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Speaker 4: Us I say the dead are come to slay the living.
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Speaker 5: Alack, I read thy riddles all too clear. We slew
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Speaker 5: by craft, and by like craft shall die. Swift. Bring
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Speaker 5: the axe that slew, my lord of old. I'll know
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Speaker 5: anon or death or victory. So stands the curse, So
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Speaker 5: I confront it.
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Speaker 1: Here Orestes enters his sword, dripping with blood.
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Speaker 3: The two I seek for him. What's done will serve woe.
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Speaker 5: Woe agistus, spouse en champion, slain.
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Speaker 3: What lovest the man? Then in his grave, lie down,
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Speaker 3: be his in death, desert him never more.
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Speaker 5: Stay child, and fear to strike O son, This breast
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Speaker 5: pillowed thine head full oft, while drowsed with sleep, Thy
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Speaker 5: toothless mouth drew mother's milk from me.
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Speaker 3: Can I my mother's spare speak Pylades.
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Speaker 1: Where then would fall the hest? Apollo gave it Delphi,
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Speaker 1: where the solemn compact sworn. Choose thou the hate of
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Speaker 1: all men, not of God's.
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Speaker 3: Thou dost prevail.
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Speaker 1: I hold thy counsel, good, orest his addresses, Clytemnestra follow.
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Speaker 3: I will slay thee at his side, with him whom
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Speaker 3: in his life thou lovedst more than Agamemnon sleep in death.
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Speaker 3: The meed for hate where love and love where hate
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Speaker 3: was due.
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Speaker 5: I nursed thee young. Must I forego mine eld?
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Speaker 3: Thou sluiced my father? Shalt thou dwell with me?
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Speaker 5: Fate bore a share in these things, O, my child.
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Speaker 3: Fate also doth provide this doom for THEE.
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Speaker 5: Beware, O my child, a parent's dying curse.
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Speaker 3: A parent who did cast me out to ill.
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Speaker 5: Not cast THEE out but to a friendly home.
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Speaker 3: Born free. I was, by twofold bargained soul.
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Speaker 5: Where than the price that I received for.
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Speaker 3: Thee, the price of shame. I taunt thee not more plainly, nay.
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Speaker 5: But recount thy father's lewdness.
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Speaker 3: Too, home keeping chied, not him who toils without.
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Speaker 5: Tis hard for wives to live as widow's child.
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Speaker 3: The absent husband toils for them at home.
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Speaker 5: Thou growest fain to slay thy mother child?
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Speaker 3: Nay tis thyself wilt slay thyself?
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Speaker 5: Not I beware thy mother's vengeful hounds from hell?
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Speaker 3: How shall I scape my father's sparing? Thee living?
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Speaker 5: I cry as to a tomb unheard.
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Speaker 3: My father's fate ordains this doom for THEE.
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Speaker 5: Ah me this snake. It was I bore and nursed.
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Speaker 3: Right prophetic was thy vision, fear shameful. Thy deed was die.
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Speaker 3: The death of.
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Speaker 1: Shame arrestes exits, driving clytemnestra before him.
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Speaker 2: Even please, I'm born a double death. Yes, since driven
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Speaker 2: on by doom, that's crown, the height of murder's men
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Speaker 2: and the old I say tis well that not in
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Speaker 2: knights and death should sink the eye and all of
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Speaker 2: this our home. There came on race and name of vengeance,
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Speaker 2: though it's very long. He came to an agamemen's hall,
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Speaker 2: a lion pair twoin swordsman strong, and at last the
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Speaker 2: heritage doth fall to him, to whom from Empithya in
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Speaker 2: cave the god his leap a his counsel gave cry
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Speaker 2: out rejoice, Our kingly hall hath escaped from women, never again,
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Speaker 2: its ancient wealth be wasted till all by two uzappers
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Speaker 2: sin the foul, an evil path of woe, and spain.
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Speaker 2: On him who dealt the dastard blow comes craft revengeous
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Speaker 2: sealing child, and hand in hand with him doth go
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Speaker 2: eager for fight, the child of Juzus, whom men below
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Speaker 2: called justice naming her a right and on her foes.
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Speaker 2: Her breath is as the blast of death. For her,
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Speaker 2: the God who dwells in deep recess be beleeath harness's
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Speaker 2: brow suttlements with loud acclaim to rise, though late and lame,
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Speaker 2: and uncome with with craft that worketh righteousness, For even
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Speaker 2: over powers of the mind, that this law is strong.
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Speaker 2: Thou shalt now serve the wrong to that which rule
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Speaker 2: I have. Heaven beseems it that we bow lo Freedom's light.
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Speaker 2: Hath a come lo now is rent away the grim
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Speaker 2: and currying midpit that held us a dumb up to
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Speaker 2: the light. Ye haulds is many a day too low
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Speaker 2: on earth. Ye lay and time the great accomplish shall
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Speaker 2: grasp that the threat hold. Whenceoever you choose with purging
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Speaker 2: hand to cleans the house alice, driving all pollution vents
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Speaker 2: and fair the caste of fortunes die before our states
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Speaker 2: new lords, shall I not as of old, but bringing
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Speaker 2: fair doom, Lo freedom light.
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Speaker 1: The scene opens, disclosing Orestes standing over the corpses of
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Speaker 1: Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. In one hand, he holds his sword
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Speaker 1: in the other, the robe in which Agamemnon was entangled
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Speaker 1: and slain.
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Speaker 3: There lies are country's two full tyranny, my father's slayers,
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Speaker 3: spoilers of my home. Erst were they royal, sitting on
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Speaker 3: the throne and loving?
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Speaker 2: Are they?
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Speaker 3: Yet their common fate tells the tale truly shows their
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Speaker 3: troth plighte firm. They swore to work mine ill starred
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Speaker 3: father's death, they swore to die together. Tis fulfilled. O
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Speaker 3: Ye who stand this great doom's witnesses, behold this too,
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Speaker 3: the dark device which bound my sire unhappy to his death.
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Speaker 3: Behold the mesh which trapped his hands and wound his feet,
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Speaker 3: stand round unfold. It tis the trammel net that wrapped
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Speaker 3: a chieftain. Holds it that he see the father, not
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Speaker 3: my sire, but he whose eyes judge of all things,
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Speaker 3: the all seeing Son. Let him behold my mother's damned deed.
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Speaker 3: Then let him stand, when need shall be to me,
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Speaker 3: witness that justly I have sought and slain. My mother blameless,
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Speaker 3: was agist this doom. He died The death law bids
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Speaker 3: adulterers die. But she who plotted this accursed thing to
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Speaker 3: slay her lord, by whom she bare beneath her girdle
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Speaker 3: once the burden of her babes beloved erewhile now turned
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Speaker 3: to hate foes. What deem ye of her, or what
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Speaker 3: venomed thing, sea, snake or adder had more power than
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Speaker 3: she to poison with a touch the flesh unscarred, so
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Speaker 3: great her daring, such her impious will, how name her?
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Speaker 3: If I may not speak a curse? A lion's springe,
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Speaker 3: a labor swathing, cloth wrapping a dead man, twining round
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Speaker 3: his feet, a net, a trammel an entangling robe. Such
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Speaker 3: were the weapon of some strangling thief, the terror of
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Speaker 3: the road, a cut purse hound with such device full
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Speaker 3: many might he kill, full oft exultant heat of villainy.
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Speaker 3: Ne'er have my house so cursed an in dweller, Heaven
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Speaker 3: send me rather childless to be slain.
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Speaker 2: Woe for each death a deed, Woe for the queen
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Speaker 2: with shame of life bereft, and ah for him who
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Speaker 2: still is left madness, dark blossom of a bloody seed?
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Speaker 3: Did she the deed or not? This robe gives proof
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Speaker 3: and brood with blood that bathed just this sword. Look
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Speaker 3: how the spurted stand combines with time to blur the
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Speaker 3: many dyes that once adorned its patterned manifold. I now
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Speaker 3: stand here, made glad, made sad, with blood exalting, wailing.
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Speaker 3: Here o thou woven web that slew my sire. I
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Speaker 3: grieve for deed and death in all my home, victor pollutions, damned,
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Speaker 3: stain for prize.
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Speaker 2: Alas O mortal men can pass his life untouched by pain.
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Speaker 2: Behold one woe is here another luminous.
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Speaker 3: And learn for what the end shall be for me?
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Speaker 3: I know, not breaking from the curb, my spirit whirls
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Speaker 3: me off, a conquered prey, borne as a charioteer by
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Speaker 3: Steed's distraught, far from the course, and madness in my
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Speaker 3: breast burneth to chant its song and leap and rave.
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Speaker 3: Hark ye and learn, my friends, ere my reason goes.
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Speaker 3: I say that rightfully I slew my mother a thing
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Speaker 3: God scorned that foully slew my sire. And chief is
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Speaker 3: wizard of the spell that bound me unto this deed.
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Speaker 3: I name the Pythian seer Apollo, who foretold that if
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Speaker 3: I slew, the guilt of murder dun should pass from me.
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Speaker 3: But if I spared the fate that should be mine,
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Speaker 3: I dare not blazon forth the bow of speech can
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Speaker 3: reach not to the mark that doom to tell? And
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Speaker 3: now behold me, how with branch and crown, I pass,
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Speaker 3: a suppliant made meet, to go unto Earth's midmost shrine,
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Speaker 3: the holy ground of Loxius, and that renowned light of
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Speaker 3: ever burning fire, to scape the doom of kindred, to
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Speaker 3: no other shrine solarsius bathe may I for refuge turn
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Speaker 3: bear witness argives in the after time? How came on me,
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Speaker 3: this dread fatality living? I pass a banished wanderer, Hence
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Speaker 3: to leave in death the memory of this cry nay,
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Speaker 3: but the dease.
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Speaker 2: Well well link not thy lips to see ill starred,
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Speaker 2: nor vent ill loaded words. Who hath to r those
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Speaker 2: her full freedom given? Loping to heads with hinly.
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Speaker 3: Low look look alas handmaiden, see what gorgon shapes throng up,
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Speaker 3: dusky their robes and all their heron wound, snakes coiled
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Speaker 3: with snakes off off, I must away.
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Speaker 2: Most oil of all suns onto thy sire. What visions
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Speaker 2: lest this fact hone great was thy di? And then
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Speaker 2: shalt thou fear?
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Speaker 3: These are no dreams, void shapes of haunting ill, but
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Speaker 3: clear to sight my mother's hell hounds.
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Speaker 2: Come nay, the fresh bloodshed still and bruise thine hands.
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Speaker 2: And thence the distraction sinks into thy soul, O.
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Speaker 3: King Apollo, see they swarm and throng, black blood of
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Speaker 3: hatred dripping from their eyes.
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Speaker 2: One remedy, Thou hast, go to the shrine of Loxias
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Speaker 2: and read thee of the these woes.
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Speaker 3: You can behold them not, but I behold them hop
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Speaker 3: and away I dare abide.
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Speaker 1: No more arrestes exits.
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Speaker 2: Farewell, then, as thou the god thy friend, guard thee
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Speaker 2: and aid with chances favoring, Behold the storm of divine
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Speaker 2: rays and beats on atreus line It's great third last alone.
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Speaker 2: First was Diaeses's loathly woe, the rueful feast of long
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Speaker 2: ago unchildren's flesh unknown, and the next the kingly chief's
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Speaker 2: despight when he who led the reefs sufice was in
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Speaker 2: the bath hewn down. And now the offspring of the
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Speaker 2: race stands in the third, the the Saviour's place to
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Speaker 2: save or to consume. O whither ere it be ful wild?
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Speaker 2: Here its fierce blast be hush'd and seal'd shall blow
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Speaker 2: the wind of.
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Speaker 1: Doom all exit, end of the libation bearers
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Speaker 6: End of Section four