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Aeschylus, agamemnon<br />
ANOTHER<br />
Unmanly doom! 'twere better far to die--<br />
Death is a gentler lord than tyranny.<br />
ANOTHER<br />
Think well--must cry or sign of woe or pain<br />
Fix our conclusion that the chief is slain?<br />
ANOTHER<br />
Such talk befits us when the deed we see--<br />
Conjecture dwells afar from certainty.<br />
LEADER<br />
I read one will from many a diverse word,<br />
To know aright, how stands it with our lord!<br />
The central doors of the palace open, disclosing CLYTEMNESTRA, who<br />
comes forward. She has blood smeared upon her forehead. The body of<br />
AGAMEMNON lies, muffled in a long robe, within a silver-sided laver; the<br />
corpse of CASSANDRA is laid beside him.<br />
CLYTEMNESTRA<br />
Ho, ye who heard me speak so long and oft<br />
The glozing word that led me to my will--<br />
Hear how I shrink not to unsay it all!<br />
How else should one who willeth to requite<br />
Evil for evil to an enemy<br />
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