Hot baths,[n52] a couch to soothe your travelled toil,

Blithe welcoming eyes, and gentle tendance; these

I freely give. If aught beyond ye crave,

There’s counsel with my lord. I’ll speak to him.

Orestes.

I am a stranger come from Phocian Daulis.

When I, my burden to my back well saddled,

Stood for the road accoutred, lo! a man

To me not known, nor of me knowing more,

But seeing only that my feet were bound