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1096 Euripides [1034-1049]<br />

ORESTES<br />

If to aught good, avail thee of my ills.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

Unmeet then at this shrine to offer thee.<br />

ORESTES<br />

What cause alleged? I reach not thine intent.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

As now impure: when hallow'd, I will slay thee.<br />

ORESTES<br />

How is the image thus more promptly gain'd?<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

Thee I will hallow in the ocean waves.<br />

ORESTES<br />

The statue we would gain is in the temple.<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

That, by thy touch polluted, I would cleanse.<br />

ORESTES<br />

Where? On the watery margin of the main?<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

Where thy tall bark secured with cables rides.<br />

ORESTES<br />

And who shall bear the image in his hands?<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

Myself; profaned by any touch but mine.<br />

ORESTES<br />

What of this blood shall on my friend be charged?<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

His hands, it shall be said, like thine are stain'd.<br />

ORESTES<br />

In secret this, or to the king disclosed?<br />

IPHIGENIA<br />

With his assent; I cannot hide it from him.

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