Who having in his bath

Tended thy spouse, thy lord, then ... How tell the rest?

For quick it comes, and hand is following hand,

Stretched out to strike the blow.

1080

Chor. Still I discern not; after words so dark

I am perplexed with thy dim oracles.

Strophe V

Cass. Ah, horror, horror! What is this I see?

Is it a snare of Hell?