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My Lord, she took it sadly at the first: But time hath lessened it. My gracious Lord, who trusts their idle murmur, Must never let the blush go from his cheek, They are Like flags growing on muddy banks, Whose weak thin heads blown, with one blast of wind, They all will shake, and bend themselves one way: Great minds must not esteem what small tongues say. All things in state must ever have this end, The vulgar should both suffer, and commend, If not for love, for fear; great majesty Should do those things the vulgar dare not see. Why my Lord? he for the great grief conceived, Being young, not knowing well to rule himself With sway of reason, ran upon his death, And threw himself with my Lord Strophius son, Into the amid of Alpheus, so was drowned. Why, wisely too, And Like her self; not being in despair: Her royal womb will bring forth many more, Shall be as deer as e'r Orestes was. 'Twas my good Genius guided me here now, To hear conspiracy; wherefore I'll attach them. Save you Gentlemen. Warning? you shall have warning, yes, I know I herd you both, and understood your plot, You'll turn Physician, Sir, and give rare glisters, Shall work Like Stibium, to purge out hearts, You thought to act well true Physicians parts. Help, murder. Oh help me, I am slain. Stop his breath quickly, if but he be dead, We may escape the danger of the treason, Nay he is silent; Oh but we are beset. Why, he was old, And death thought best to seize on him at home, ALL years of happy days, all hours of Joy So circle in thy state, as does this crown Wreathe and combine thy princely temples in, All speak! Jove still protect Aegystheus.
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.