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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
CLYTEMNESTRA<br />
'Tis madness and the rule of mind distraught,<br />
Since she beheld her city sink in fire,<br />
And hither comes, nor brooks the bit, until<br />
In foam and blood her wrath be champed away.<br />
See ye to her; unqueenly 'tis for me,<br />
Unheeded thus to cast away my words.<br />
CLYTEMNESTRA enters the palace.<br />
LEADER<br />
But with me pity sits in anger's place.<br />
Poor maiden, come thou from the car; no way<br />
There is but this-take up thy servitude.<br />
CASSANDRA chanting<br />
Woe, woe, alas! Earth, Mother Earth! and thou<br />
Apollo, Apollo!<br />
LEADER<br />
Peace! shriek not to the bright prophetic god,<br />
Who will not brook the suppliance of woe.<br />
CASSANDRA chanting<br />
Woe, woe, alas! Earth, Mother Earth! and thou<br />
Apollo, Apollo!<br />
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