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IPHIGENEIA AT AULIS.
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By violence thy letter from mine hand, 315
Agamemnon, nor will have regard to right!

Enter Agamemnon.

Agamemnon.

Ha!
What this tumult at my doors, and this unseemly brawl upstirred?


Menelaus.

Mine the right to speak is—mine before this fellow to be heard.


Agamemnon.

Wherefore dost thou strive with him, Menelaus, and by violence hale?

[Men. releases O.S., who exit.

Menelaus.

Look me in the face, that I may make beginning of the tale. 320


Agamemnon.

Shall I dread to lift mine eyelids, who of dreadless Atreus came?


Menelaus.

Seëst thou this tablet—this, the bearer of a tale of shame?


Agamemnon.

I behold it,—and from thine hand first do thou surrender it.


Menelaus.

Never, ere I show to all the Danaans that therein is writ!

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