Too sleep-oppressed art thou, nor pitiest me:

Orestes, murderer of his mother, 'scapes.

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[Noises repeated

Dost snort? Dost drowse? Wilt thou not rise and speed?

What have ye ever done but work out ill?

[Noises as before

Yea, sleep and toil, supreme conspirators,

Have withered up the dreaded dragon's strength.

Chor. [starting up suddenly with a yell.] Seize him, seize, seize, yea, seize: look well to it.