Agamemnon A Tragedy |
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| 3. | SCENE III. |
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SCENE III.
Arsinoe and Clytemnestra.ARSINOE.
Ha! in tears! What means this ominous shower?
Has then some other got the start of me?
How! does the king suspect?
CLYTEMNESTRA.
Arsinoe here!
ARSINOE.
Wipe as you will, I saw them falling fast.
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You have, Arsinoe, made me very wretched.
Better, far better had you brought a dragon,
Or deadly python, when you brought Egysthus.
ARSINOE.
Now, now, my words of wisdom come to pass.
But what has chanc'd so in a little hour?
CLYTEMNESTRA.
I cannot live, if he abandon me.
I struggled long to root his image out;
But deeper, still and deeper, it is fix'd.
ARSINOE.
And will you not consent to send him hence?
Well, drink to drunkenness; fill up the cup;
Forth to the street, and rant it out to all.
CLYTEMNESTRA.
The adder's bite, and the envenom'd bowl,
But pain us once, and soon we lie at rest;
While faithless love and fell gratitude,
Strike, every day, a new and sharper sting.
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