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Whether of you twain here was called by name

Pylades?—this thing first I fain would learn.

He—if to learn this pleasure thee at all.

And of what Hellene state born citizen?

How should the knowledge, lady, advantage thee?

Say, of one mother be ye brethren twain?

In love we are brethren, lady, not in birth.

And what name gave thy father unto thee?

Rightly might I be called "Unfortunate."

Not this I ask: lay this to fortune's door.