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Agamemnon (1489-1515)

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Alas, alas, my King, my King,
how shall I bewail you? How voice my heartfelt love for you? To lie in this spiders web, breathing forth your life in an impious death! Ah me, to lie on this ignoble bed, struck down in treacherous death wrought
by a weapon of double edge wielded by the hand of your own wife!
1497
Clytaemestra
Do you affirm this deed is mine? Do not imagine that I am Agamemnons spouse.
A phantom resembling that corpses wife, the ancient bitter evil spirit of Atreus, that grim banqueter, has offered him in payment, sacrificing a full-grown victim in vengeance for those slain babes.
1505
2
Chorus
That you are innocent of this murderwho will bear you witness? How could anyone do so? And yet the evil genius of his father might well be your accomplice. By force
amid streams of kindred blood black Havoc presses on to where he shall grant vengeance for the gore of children served for meat.
1513
2
Alas, alas, my King, my King, how shall I bewail you?
How voice my heartfelt love for you? To lie in this spiders web, breathing forth your life in impious death! Alas, to lie on this ignoble bed, struck down in treacherous death

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