The Argument of this Tragedie.
Megæra
ONE OF THE
Hellish furies raising vp Tantalus frō
Hell, incited him to set mortall hatred
betwene his two nephewes Thiestes, &
Atreus being brothers, and raining as Kinges ouer
Mycenæ by enterchangeable turnes, that is to witte
Thiestes to raine the one yere, and Atreus the other.
Now Atreus enraged with furie against his brother
partly for defiling and deflouring his wife Ærope by
pollicie, and partly for taking from him a Ram with
a golden fleese, practised with his seruāt how to be reuēged
of his brother. This Atreus therfore dissēblīg
a reconciliation & inuiting Thyestes to Mycenæ secretly
& vnknowē to him, set before hī at a banquet
the flesh of his own childrē to eate. Afterward Atreus
hauīg also geuē to his said brother ye bloud of his childrē
in a goblet to drinke, did lastly cōmaūd the heads
also to be brought in, at the doleful sight wherof Thiestes
greatly lamēting knowīg yt he had eatē his owne
childrē, was wonderfully anguished. But Atreus for
that he had thus reuenged himselfe, toke the therin great
pleasure and delectation.
