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Agamemnon (1528a-1549)

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Bear himself proudly!
Being by sword-destroying death amerced
For that swords punishment himself inflicted first.
1530
CHOROS.
I at a loss am left
Of a feasible scheme of mind bereft
Where I may turn: for the house is falling:
I fear the bloody crash of the rain
That ruins the roof as it bursts amain:
The warning-drop
Has come to a stop.
Destiny doth Justice whet
For other deed of hurt, on other whetstones yet.
1537
Woe, earth, earth would thou hadst taken me
Ere I saw the man I see,
On the pallet-bed
Of the silver-sided bath-vase, dead!
Who is it shall bury him, who
Sing his dirge? Can it be true
That thou wilt dare this same to do
Having slain thy husband, thine own,
To make his funeral moan:
And for the soul of him, in place
Of his mighty deeds, a graceless grace
To wickedly institute? By whom
Shall the tale of praise oer the tomb
At the god-like man be sent

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