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Io. Ah woe! woe! woe!

Prom. Again thou groan'st and criest. What wilt do

When thou shall learn the evils yet to come?

Chor. What! are there troubles still to come for her?

Prom. Yea, stormy sea of woe most lamentable.

Io. What gain is it to live? Why cast I not

Myself at once from this high precipice,

And, dashed to earth, be free from all my woes?

Far better were it once for all to die