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If you fear, from former cases,

That the audience p'raps may fail

To appreciate your paces

Your allusions and your graces,

Look a moment in their faces!

They will tell another tale.

Oft from long campaigns returning

Thro' the devious roads of learning

These have wandered, books in hand:

Nature gave them keen discerning

Eyes; and you have set them burning!

Sharpest thought or deepest yearning—

Speak, and these will understand.

Quite so; I'll turn then to his Prologues straight,

And make in that first part of tragedy

My first review in detail of this Genius!

[His exposition always was obscure.]

Which one will you examine!

Which? Oh, lots!

First quote me that from the Oresteia, please.

Ho, silence in the court! Speak, Aeschylus.