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SCENE VI.

AMPHITRYON
alone.
Woe is me!
What shall I do, abandon'd by my friends,
And now without an advocate to help me?—
Yet shall he ne'er abuse me unreveng'd,
Whoe'er he is.—I'll strait unto the king,
And lay the whole before him.—I'll have vengeance
On this damn'd sorcerer, who has strangely turn'd
The minds of all our family.—But where is he?—
I doubt not, but he's gone in to my wife.—
Lives there in Thebes a greater wretch than I?—
What shall I do now, since all men deny me,
And fool me at their pleasure?—'Tis resolv'd:
I'll burst into the house, and whomsoe'er
I set my eyes on, servant male or female,
Wife or gallant, father or grandfather,
I'll cut them into pieces:—Nor shall Jove,
Nor all the Gods prevent it, if they would,
But I will do what I've resolv'd.—I'll in now.

[As he advances towards the door, it thunders, and he falls down.
Thunder and Lightning.