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Rh Give them such guest-right as beseems our halls;

I bid thee do as thou shalt answer for it.

And I unto the prince that rules our home

Will tell the tale, and, since we lack not friends,

With them will counsel how this hap to bear.

[Exit Clytemnestra.

So be it done—

Sister-servants, when draws nigh

Time for us aloud to cry

Orestes and his victory?

O holy earth and holy tomb

Over the grave-pit heaped on high,

Where low doth Agamemnon lie—

The king of ships, the army's lord!

Now is the hour—give ear and come,

For now doth Craft her aid afford,

And Hermes, guard of shades in hell,

Stands o'er their strife, to sentinel

The dooming of the sword.

I wot the stranger worketh woe within—

For lo! I see come forth, suffused with tears,

Orestes' nurse. What ho, Kilissa—thou

Beyond the doors? Where goest thou? Methinks

Some grief unbidden walketh at thy side.

[Enter Kilissa, a nurse.

My mistress bids me, with what speed I may,

Call in Ægisthus to the stranger guests,

That he may come, and standing face to face,

A man with men, may thus more clearly learn

This rumour new. Thus speaking, to her slaves