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785—808] and see what tidings yon man tells; this peril touches us too closely for our peace.

. Why do ye break my rest again, ah me, when I had but just found peace from relentless woes?

. Hearken to yon man, and the tidings of Ajax that he hath brought us, to my grief.

. Alas, what sayest thou, man? Are we undone?

. I know not of thy fortune, but only that, if Ajax is abroad, my mind is ill at ease for him.

. He is abroad indeed, so that I am in anguish to know thy meaning.

. Teucer straitly commands that ye keep Ajax under shelter of the roof, and suffer him not to go forth alone.

. And where is Teucer, and wherefore speaks he thus?

. He hath but now returned; and forbodes that this going forth is fraught with death to Ajax.

. Unhappy me! from whom can he have learned this?

. From Thestor's son, the seer, this day,—when the issue is one of life or death for Ajax.

. Ah me, my friends, protect me from the doom threatened by fate! Speed, some of you, to hasten Teucer's coming; let others go to the westward bays, and others to the eastward, and seek the man's ill-omened steps. I see now that I have been deceived by my lord, and cast out of the favour that once I found with him.