What shall I speak from heart that truly loves?

And now thou liest there, breathing out thy life,

In impious deed of death,

In this fell spider's web,—

Antistrophe VII

(Yes, woe is me! woe, woe!

Woe for this couch of thine dishonourable!)—

Slain by a subtle death,

With sword two-edged which her right hand did wield.

Antistrophe VIII