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But bid mine henchmen to the galley sterns
Lead her, wherein her voyaging shall be.
Hecuba.
Oh not the same deck let her tread with thee!
Menelaus.
How, should she sink it—heavier than of old? 1050
Hecuba.
Lover is none but loveth evermore.
Menelaus.
Nay, love but lives while lives the loved one's faith.
Yet as thou wilt it shall be: on one ship
With me she shall not step: thou counsellest well.
And, when she wins to Argos, in foul sort 1055
The foul shall die, as meet is, and shall teach
All women chastity:—not easy this;
Yet her destruction shall with terror smite
Their folly, viler though they be than she.
[Exit Menelaus with Helen.
Chorus.
(Str. 1)
So then thy temple in Troy fair-gleaming, 1060
And thine altar of incense heavenward steaming
Hast thou rendered up to our foes Achaean,
O Zeus, and the flame of our sacrificing,
And the holy burg with its myrrh-smoke rising,
And the ivy-mantled glens Idaean
Overstreamed with the wan snow riverward-rushing,