Simon Brown | ISBN:161382243X | Paperback Book | File size: 29.Mb | Feb. 20th, 2012
General History: This historic book may have numerous typos missing text or index urchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book without typos from the publisher 1906 Not illustrated Excerpt That they may do and speak what things they will Cre All Thebes sees this with other eyes than thine Ant They see as I but bate their breath to thee 509 Cre And art thou not ashamed from them to differ Ant To reverence a brother is not shamef Cre And was not he who died for Thebes thy brother Ant One mother bore us and one sire begat Cre Yet honouring both thou dost dishonour him Ant He in the grave will not subscribe to this Cre How if no less thou dost revere the guilty Ant Twas not his slave that perished but his brother the The enemy of this land its champion he Ant Yet Death of due observance must not fail Cre Just and unjust urge not an equal claim 520 Ant erchance in Hades tis a holy deed Cre Hatred not ev n in death converts to love Ant Not in your hates but in your loves I d share Cre Go to the shades and if thou lt love love there No woman while I live shall master me Enter Ismene Chor See from the palace comes Ismene Sisterly drops from her eyes down shedding Clouded her brows droop heavy with sorrow And the blood red tinge of a burning blush Covers her beautif downcast face 530 the Thou who hast crept a serpent in my home Draining my blood unseen and I knew not Rearing two pests to overset my throne Speak wilt thou too confess that in this work Thou hadst a hand or swear thou didst not know Ism I ll say the deed was mine if she consents My share of the blame I bear and do not shrink Ant Justice forbids thy claim neither didst thou Agree nor I admit thee to my counsels Ism I am not ashamed in thine extremity 540 To make myself companion of thy fate Ant Whose was the deed know Hades and the dead I love not friends who talk of friendliness Ism Sis
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