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ORESTES<br />

Swear then; and thou propose the righteous oath.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

This, let him say, he to my friends will give.<br />

PYLADES<br />

Well, to thy friends this letter I will give.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

Thee will I send safe through the darkening rocks.<br />

PYLADES<br />

What god dost thou invoke to attest thy oath?<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

Diana, at whose shrine high charge I hold.<br />

PYLADES<br />

And I heaven's potent king, the awful Jove.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

But if thou slight thy oath, and do me wrong?<br />

PYLADES<br />

Never may I return. But if thou fail,<br />

And save me not?<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

Then never, while I live,<br />

May I revisit my loved Argos more!<br />

PYLADES<br />

One thing, not mention'd, thy attention claims.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

If honour owes it, this will touch us both.<br />

PYLADES<br />

Let me in this be pardon'd, if the bark<br />

Be lost, and with it in the surging waves<br />

Thy letter perish, and I naked gain<br />

The shore; no longer binding be the oath.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

Know'st thou what I will do? For various ills<br />

Arise to those that plough the dangerous deep.<br />

What in this letter is contain'd, what here

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