Since thou lov'st him, and whom thou should'st love hatest.

Clytæm. I reared thee, and would fain grow old with thee.

Orest. What! Thou live with me, who did'st slay my father?

Clytæm. Fate, O my son, must share the blame of that.

Orest. This fatal doom, then, it is Fate that sends.

Clytæm. Dost thou not fear a parent's curse, my son?

Orest. Thou, though my mother, did'st to ill chance cast me.

Clytæm. No outcast thou, so sent to house allied.

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Orest. I was sold doubly, though of free sire born.