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50 Make answer, for a rumour have I heard

That Menelaus' child hath left these halls

And fled away. In haste I come to learn

If this be sooth; for we which bide at home

Should bear the burdens of our absent friends.

Peleus, truth hast thou heard: 'twere for my shame

To hide the ills wherein my lot is cast.

O yea, the queen is gone—fled from these halls.

With what fear stricken? Tell me all the tale.

Dreading her lord, lest forth the home he cast her.

For that her murder-plot against his son?

Yea: of the captive dame adread withal.

Forth with her father went she, or with whom?

Agamemnon's son hath led her from the land.

Yea?—furthering what hope?—would he wed her?