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                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:lang="eng"><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg005.perseus-eng4" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="episode"><sp><l n="1053">Follow! The best — as things now stand — she speaks of.</l><l n="1054">Obey thou, leaving this thy car-enthronement!</l></sp><sp><speaker>KLUTAIMNESTRA.</speaker><l n="1055">Well, with this thing at door, for me no leisure</l><l n="1056">To waste time: as concerns the hearth mid-navelled,</l><l n="1057">Already stand the sheep for fireside slaying</l><l n="1058">By those who never hoped to have such favour.</l><l n="1059">If thou, then, aught of this wilt do, delay not!</l><l n="1060">But if thou, being witless, tak’st no word in,</l><l n="1061">Speak thou, instead of voice, with hand as <placeName key="tgn,7002554">Kars</placeName> do!</l></sp><sp><speaker>CHOROS.</speaker><l n="1062">She seems a plain interpreter in need of,</l><l n="1063">The stranger! and her way — a beast’s new-captured!</l></sp><sp><speaker>KLUTAIMNESTRA.</speaker><l n="1064">Why, she is mad, sure, — hears her own bad senses, —</l><l n="1065">Who, while she comes, leaving a town new-captured,</l><l n="1066">Yet knows not how to bear the bit o’ the bridle</l><l n="1067">Before she has out-frothed her bloody fierceness.</l><l n="1068">Not I — throwing away more words — will shamed be!</l></sp></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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