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22 against a friend who has bound himself with an oath.

. Do you desire my exile or my death?

. No, by Helios, by the first of all the gods, may I die abandoned by Heaven and earth if I have that thought. What breaks my heart is that our public griefs should be increased by your quarrels.

. Then let him go, though I am doomed thereby to death or to be thrust dis­honoured from the land; it is your lips, not his, that move me to compassion; wherever he goes my hatred follows him.

. You are as sullen in yielding as you were vehement in anger, but such natures are their own heaviest burden.

. Why will you not leave me in peace and begone?

. I will go away; what is your hatred to me; in the eyes of all here I am a just man.

. Lady, why do you not take your man in to the house?

. I will do so when I have learned what has happened.

. The half of it was blind suspicion bred of talk; the rest the wounds left by injustice.

. It was on both sides?

. Yes.