Agamemnon

Aeschylus

Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.

  1. Who has brought life to end in loved well-being.
  2. If all things I might manage thus — brave man, I!
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Come now, this say, nor feign a feeling to me!
AGAMEMNON.
  1. With feeling, know indeed, I do not tamper!
KLUTAIMNESTRA
  1. Vowed’st thou to the gods, in fear, to act thus?
AGAMEMNON.
  1. If any, I well knew resolve I outspoke.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. What think’st thou Priamos had done, thus victor?
AGAMEMNON.
  1. On varied vests — I do think — he had passaged.
KLUTAIMNESTRA
  1. Then, do not, struck with awe at human censure ....
AGAMEMNON.
  1. Well, popular mob-outcry much avails too.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Ay, but the unenvied is not the much valued.
AGAMEMNON.
  1. Sure, ’t is no woman’s part to long for battle.
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Why, to the prosperous, even suits a beating.
AGAMEMNON.
  1. What? thou this beating us in war dost prize too?
KLUTAIMNESTRA.
  1. Persuade thee! power, for once, grant me — and willing!
AGAMEMNON.
  1. But if this seem so to thee — shoes, let someone