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SCENE THE THIRTEENTH.
ÆGYSTHUS, MELISANDER, ARCAS, ÆTHON, Nobles, Attendants and Guards, with the dead body of CLYTEMNESTRA.MELISANDER.
Take hence that tyrant to the fate he merits.
On the same spot where Agamemnon bled
Let him be executed. Then cast forth
His carcass, for a prey to dogs and vultures.
ÆGYSTHUS.
My soul, superiour to your pow'r and malice,
Disdains such puny vengeance. Be my fate
Whate'er it may, ye shall not see me shrink,
But face it with a kingly resolution.
Disdains such puny vengeance. Be my fate
Whate'er it may, ye shall not see me shrink,
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Gods if there are, I never sought to please 'em.
So whatsoever may hereafter prove—
Why that I'll welcome too. But for mankind,
Who saw unmov'd the suff'rings of our race,
I've ever hated—ever sought to plague—
Shewn them no mercy—and I ask for none—
But, as a dying legacy, bequeath
To all, this wish.—May frauds, contentions, rapines,
Flames, famines, pestilences—slaughters rage!
And fill, if possible, the world with torments
Greater than those which I'm prepar'd to suffer.
So whatsoever may hereafter prove—
Why that I'll welcome too. But for mankind,
Who saw unmov'd the suff'rings of our race,
I've ever hated—ever sought to plague—
Shewn them no mercy—and I ask for none—
But, as a dying legacy, bequeath
To all, this wish.—May frauds, contentions, rapines,
Flames, famines, pestilences—slaughters rage!
And fill, if possible, the world with torments
Greater than those which I'm prepar'd to suffer.
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