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Tartarus let him quite cast down my

Body, by necessity's strong eddies.

Yet after all he will not kill me. Her. Such words and counsels you may hear

From the brain-struck.

For what lacks he of being mad?

And if prosperous, what does he cease from madness?

Do you, therefore, who sympathize

With this one's suffering,

From these places quick withdraw somewhere,

Lest the harsh bellowing thunder

Stupefy your minds.

Ch. Say something else, and exhort me

To some purpose; for surely

Thou hast intolerably abused this word.

How direct me to perform a baseness?

I wish to suffer with him whate'er is necessary,

For I have learned to hate betrayers;

Nor is the pest

Which I abominate more than this.

Her. Remember, then, what I foretell;

Nor by calamity pursued

Blame fortune, nor e'er say

That Zeus into unforeseen

Ill has cast you; surely not, but yourselves

You yourselves; for knowing,

And not suddenly nor clandestinely,

You 'll be entangled through your folly

In an impassable net of woe. Pr. Surely indeed, and no more in word,

Earth is shaken;