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IPHIGENIA<br />

What say'st thou? Canst thou give me proof of this?<br />

ORESTES<br />

I can: ask something of my father's house.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

Nay, it is thine to speak, mine to attend.<br />

ORESTES<br />

First let me mention things which I have heard<br />

Electra speak: to thee is known the strife<br />

Which fierce 'twixt Atreus and Thyestes rose.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

Yes, I have heard it; for the golden ram,—<br />

ORESTES<br />

In the rich texture didst thou not inweave it?<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

0 thou most dear! Thou windest near my heart.<br />

ORESTES<br />

And image in the web the averted sun?<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

In the fine threads that figure did I work.<br />

ORESTES<br />

For Aulis did thy mother bathe thy limbs?<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

1 know it, to unlucky spousals led.<br />

ORESTES<br />

Why to thy mother didst thou send thy locks?<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

Devoted for my body to the tomb.<br />

ORESTES<br />

What I myself have seen I now as proofs<br />

Will mention. In thy father's house, hung high<br />

Within thy virgin chambers, the old spear<br />

Of Pelops, which he brandish'd when he slew<br />

Oenomaus, and won his beauteous bride,<br />

The virgin Hippodamia, Pisa's boast.

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