Agamemnon A Tragedy |
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SCENE X.
Clytemnestra and Egysthus.CLYTEMNESTRA.
How far is, yet, the army from the town?
EGYSTHUS.
By the last messengers, the van had come
On this side Mycenea.
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Well, Egysthus;
What think you now?
EGYSTHUS.
I only think of death.
CLYTEMNESTRA.
Whose death?
EGYSTHUS.
Whose death?
CLYTEMNESTRA.
Ay, whose?
EGYSTHUS.
My own and yours.
The witch, Arsinoe, will destroy us all.
Oh! had she died a month ago.
CLYTEMNESTRA.
You think—
EGYSTHUS.
What?
CLYTEMNESTRA.
If she had died a month ago?—
EGYSTHUS.
Well?
CLYTEMNESTRA.
You think then, that to-day is now too late?
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What do you mean by these mysterious looks?
There's no one near us. Well?
CLYTEMNESTRA.
Alas! Egysthus;
We stand in imminent and deadly hazard.
EGYSTHUS.
I rue that e'er I fell within your sight.
CLYTEMNESTRA.
The past is gone: not Jove himself, can roll
The stream of time again towards the source.
Let us look round; perchance, in this dread whirl,
Some eddy may arise to bear us out.
EGYSTHUS.
Said you not, if Arsinoe were dead?—
CLYTEMNESTRA.
You are well built, and should be bold, Egysthus,
Had you but that courageous enterprize,
So needful to the lover of a queen,
We should not quake in such alarm'd amaze.
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