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Rh. Yes, so have I ever been called, and the title causes me no regret.

. Hast heard how this woman plotted my death?

. I have; thou, too, art wrong because of thy harshness.

. Am I not to pay back murderers in their coin?

. Wives ever hate the children of a former marriage.

. As I hate step-dames for their evil treatment of me.

. Do not so; but leaving, as thou art, the shrine, and setting forth for thy country

. What then wouldst thou advise me do?

. With clean hands seek Athens, attended by good omens.

. Surely any man hath clean hands who slays his enemies.

. Do not thou do this; but take the counsel that I have for thee.

. Say on; whate'er thou say'st will be prompted by thy good will.

. Dost see this basket that I carry in my arms?

. An ancient ark with chaplets crowned.

. Herein I found thee long ago, a newborn babe.

. What sayest thou? there is novelty in the story thou art introducing.

. Yea, for I was keeping these relics a secret, but now I show them.

. How camest thou to hide them on that day, now long ago, when thou didst find me?

. The god wished to have thee as his servant in his courts.

. Does he no longer wish it? How am I to know this?

. By declaring to thee thy sire, he dismisses thee from this land.