This care, then, I can speak of now as gone.

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And how my lineage stands thou soon shalt know:

An Argive I, my sire well known to thee,

Chief ruler of the seamen, Agamemnon,

With whom thou madest Troïa, Ilion's city,

To be no city. He, when he came home,

Died without honour; and my dark-souled mother

Enwrapt and slew him with her broidered toils,

Which bore their witness of the murder wrought