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EURIPIDES.

Achilles.

Who art thou? Why cam'st thou to Achaia's host— 825
A woman unto men with bucklers fenced?


Klytemnestra.

I am Leda's daughter; Klytemnestra named
Am I: King Agamemnon is my lord.


Achilles.

Well hast thou said in brief what most imports:—
Yet shame were this, that I with women talk! 830


Klytemnestra.

Stay—wherefore flee? Nay, give me thy right hand
To clasp, the prelude to espousals blest.


Achilles.

How say'st?—mine hand in thine? Ashamed were I
Before thy lord of such unsanctioned touch.


Klytemnestra.

'Tis wholly sanctioned, since thou art to wed 835
My child, O son of the Lady of the Sea.


Achilles.

What wedding this?—I know not what to say—
Except of crazed wits this strange utterance come.


Klytemnestra.

'Tis all men's nature so in shame to shrink
Before new kin and talk of spousal-rites. 840

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