<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg011.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="episode"><div type="textpart" subtype="iambic"><sp><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg011.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" n="345">beyond my blackest expectation. Ah, my child! how little did I ever dream that such would be your marriage, a captive, and of <placeName key="perseus,Argos">Argos</placeName> too! Give up the torch to me; you do not bear its blaze aright in your wild frantic course, nor have your afflictions left you in your sober senses, </l><l xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0006.tlg011.perseus-eng2" resp="perseus" n="350">but still you are as frantic as before. Take in those torches, Trojan friends, and for her wedding madrigals weep your tears instead.</l></sp></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>