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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
Plotting and planning all that malice bade.<br />
And death itself were honour now to me,<br />
Beholding him in Justice' ambush ta'en.<br />
LEADER<br />
Aegisthus, for this insolence of thine<br />
That vaunts itself in evil, take my scorn.<br />
Of thine own will, thou sayest, thou hast slain<br />
The chieftain, by thine own unaided plot<br />
Devised the piteous death: I rede thee well,<br />
Think not thy head shall 'scape, when right prevails,<br />
The people's ban, the stones of death and doom.<br />
AEGISTHUS<br />
This word frcm thee, this word from one who rows<br />
Low at the oars beneath, what time we rule,<br />
We of the upper tier ? Thou'lt know anon,<br />
'Tis bitter to be taught again in age,<br />
By one so young, submission at the word.<br />
But iron of the chain and hunger's throes<br />
Can minister unto an o'erswoln pride<br />
Marvellous well, ay, even in the old.<br />
Hast eyes and seest not this? Peace-- kick not thus<br />
Against the pricks, unto thy proper pain!<br />
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