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Orestes (1561-1587)

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Open the doors! I tell my servants to force the gates, so that I may rescue my child at any rate from the hands of those blood-stained men and recover my poor wretched wife,
while the ones who destroyed her must die at my hands.
Orestesfrom the roof.
You there! Keep your hands off those bolts; I mean you, Menelaus, towering in your audacity! Or I will tear off the ancient parapet, the work of masons,
and shatter your skull with this coping-stone. The doors are bolted and barred, which will prevent your eagerness to bring aid and keep you from entering.
Menelaus
Oh! What is this? I see a blaze of torches and men standing at bay on the top of the house,
with a sword guarding my daughter’s throat.
Orestes
Would you question me or hear me speak?
Menelaus
Neither; but I suppose I must hear you.
Orestes
I intend to kill your daughter, if you want to know.
Menelaus
After slaying Helen, you will add murder to murder?
Orestes
Would I had accomplished that, instead of being duped by the gods!
Menelaus
Do you deny having slain her, and say this out of wanton insult?
Orestes
Yes, I do deny it, to my sorrow. If only I had—
Menelaus
Done what? You frighten me!
Orestes
Hurled the pollution of Hellas to Hades!
Menelaus
Give back my wife’s dead body, so that I may bury her.
Orestes
Ask the gods for her; but I will kill your daughter.
Menelaus
This matricide is adding murder to murder.

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