To hurt us more, being already ruined?
Messenger.
The bloom of all the Persian youth, in spirit
The bravest, and in birth the noblest, princes
In whom thy son placed his especial trust,
All by a most inglorious doom have perished.
Atossa.
O wretched me, that I should live to hear it!
But by what death did Persia’s princes die?
Messenger.