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SCENE IX.
Clytemnestra and Egysthus.CLYTEMNESTRA.
You tarry long Egysthus.
EGYSTHUS.
Saw you Arsinoe?
CLYTEMNESTRA.
Have you resolv'd?
EGYSTHUS.
Have you confided in her?
CLYTEMNESTRA.
No: not I!
Did you not speak to her; for she suspects?
EGYSTHUS.
I thought that you, perchance, had something said.
She will betray us—we shall be undone.
CLYTEMNESTRA.
Have you resolv'd?
EGYSTHUS.
I have no choice of will;
We are constrain'd, and more if she suspects.
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Come, pluck up heart; throw off this gloomy look;
Wear a smooth brow and cheat the world's eye.
EGYSTHUS.
But how, or when, shall we decide the deed?
CLYTEMNESTRA.
Did I not tell you at the banquet?
EGYSTHUS.
No!
CLYTEMNESTRA.
Then do it there. The hour is hast'ning on.
EGYSTHUS.
But there; I may not then approach the king;
He will be high in state, and far apart.
CLYTEMNESTRA.
Be you at hand, as we approach the entrance,
And when you see me take him by the arm,
And lift my robe, then strike; I will so wrap
Th'entangling drap'ry, as I link his arm,
That he shall not have chance to draw his sword.
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