Will with God's help work out what fate decrees.[[339]]
(The handmaids advance, and are about to lay the
purple carpets on the ground)
Agam. O child of Leda, guardian of my home,
Thy speech hath with my absence well agreed—
For long indeed thou mad'st it—but fit praise
Is boon that I must seek at other hands.
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I pray thee, do not in thy woman's fashion
Pamper my pride, nor in barbaric guise