IPHIGENEIA IN TAURICA.
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Iphigeneia.
Nay, where thy ship rides moored with hempen reins.
Orestes.
Will thine hands, or another's, bear the image?
Iphigeneia.
Mine. Sinlessly none toucheth it save me. 1045
Orestes.
And in this blood-guilt what is Pylades' part?[1]
Iphigeneia.
Stained even as thine his hands are, will I say.
Orestes.
Hid from the king shall be thy deed, or known?
Iphigeneia.
I must persuade whom I could not elude.
Orestes.
Ready in any wise the oared ship is. 1050
'Tis thine to see that all beside go well.
One thing we lack, that yon maids hide all this.
Beseech them thou, and find persuasive words;
A woman's tongue hath pity-stirring might:—
Then may all else perchance have happy end. 1055
- ↑ (MS. reading), i.e. in this story of pollution by matricide. Others, reading χόρου, render, "And in this play what part hath Pylades?"
