From whom men gain the ties of closest love.

For still to man and woman marriage bed,

Assigned by Fate and guided by the Right,

Is more than any oath. If thou then deal

So gently, when the one the other slays,

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And dost not even look on them with wrath,

I say thou dost not justly chase Orestes;

For thou, in the one case, I know, dost rage;

I' the other, clearly tak'st it easily: