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Were my mind settled, would the gellid fear, That freezeth up my sense, set free my speech, I would unfold a tale which makes my heart Throb in my entrails: when I seem to see't. Upon the mount of yonder rising cliff, Which the earth hath made a bulwark for the sea, Whose peerless head is from the streams so high, That whosoever looks down, his brain will swim With a vertigo: The space removed so far The object from the eye, that a tall ship Seemed a swift flying bird: upon this top Saw I two men making complaints to heaven, One's voice distinctly still cried, Father, King, Great Agamemnon: whose diviner soul Fled from thy corpse, exiled by butchers hands, His friend still sought to keep his dying life With words of comfort, that it should not rush Too violently upon the hands of Fate. He deaf as sea, to which he made his plaints, Still cried out, Agamemnon, I will come, And find thy blessed soul where e'r it walk, In what fair Tempe of Elisium So e'r it be, my soul shall find it out; With that his friend knit him within his arms, Striving to hold him but when it no boot, They hand in hand, thus plunged into the main. Strait they arose, and strived, me thought, for life, But swelling Neptune not regarding friends, Wrapped their embraced limbs in following waves. Until at last, their deer departing souls Hastened to Styx, and I no more cloud see.
Plot summary
Plot — Orestes
Agamemnon returns home after ten years of war. When he takes his neglected wife Clytemnestra to bed, she and her lover Aegisthus murder him. Roused by bad dreams, his son Orestes finds the body in bed. Feigning innocence, Clytemnestra curses the murderer, while the surviving Trojan glories in the death of the enemy commander: Troy is avenged. Recognizing that he is in danger, Orestes goes into hiding with Pylades until the murderer is identified, and sends a report that, unhinged with grief, he threw himself off a cliff into the sea, and that Pylades also went over trying to stop him. Aegisthus, the next in line, ascends the throne and marries Clytemnestra. She bears him a son, establishing his dynasty, and in celebration he proclaims a general pardon for all crimes. Orestes and Pylades consult the witch Canidia, who shows them a vision of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus committing the murder. They return to court in disguise. Their plotting is overheard by Misander, and they kill him to preserve secrecy, but are immediately arrested. In judging the case, Aegisthus faces two problems: the crime is covered by the general pardon, and each defendant, seeking to save the other, claims that he alone was the murderer. Aegisthus decides not to pass a death sentence on either, and is further impressed when Pylades introduces Orestes as a doctor who has perfected the secret of rejuvenation. Aegisthus asks for a demonstration, using himself and Clytemnestra as the subjects. Agamemnon’s ghost appears to Orestes, urging him to get on with the revenge and take care not to spare his mother. Pylades obtains custody of Aegisthus’ son, who is in the care of Orestes’ sister Electra. When Orestes meets with the King and Queen for their ===== PAGE 235 ===== 1620 rejuvenation, he ties them up, kills their son in front of them, forces them to drink the blood, and finally kills them. He demands his restoration to the throne, but the lords are unwilling to crown a murderer, and instead enthrone Tyndarus, whose first act is to banish Orestes and his accomplices, further stipulating that nobody must give Orestes food. Pylades’ father Strophius dies and Electra kills herself. Orestes goes mad and thinks himself tormented by the Furies. He and Pylades kill one another in a suicide pact, and Tyndarus announces that they are to be buried together in a single tomb.