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IPHIGENEIA IN TAURICA.

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Orestes.

Who? Of the prosperous is not he I know.


Iphigeneia.

One King Agamemnon, Atreus' scion named.545


Orestes.

I know not. Lady, let his story be.


Iphigeneia.

Nay, tell, by Heaven, that I be gladdened, friend.


Orestes.

Dead, hapless king!—and perished not alone.


Iphigeneia.

Dead is he? By what fate?—ah, woe is me!


Orestes.

Why dost thou sigh thus? Is he kin to thee?550


Iphigeneia.

His happiness of old days I bemoan.


Orestes.

Yea, and his awful death—slain by his wife!


Iphigeneia.

O all-bewailed, the murderess and the dead!


Orestes.

Refrain thee even now, and ask no more.

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