I know and shudder at, and fear o'ercomes me,

Hearing not counterfeits of fact, but truths;

Yet in the rest I hear and miss my path.

Cass. I say thou'lt witness Agamemnon's death.

Chor. Hush, wretched woman, close those lips of thine!

Cass. For this my speech no healing God's at hand.

Chor. True, if it must be; but may God avert it!

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Cass. Thou utterest prayers, but others murder plot.

Chor. And by what man is this dire evil wrought?