In sooth the host hath housed a grievous guest;

For see where comes Orestes’ nurse, all tears!

Where goest thou, nurse, beyond our gates to walk,

And why walks Grief, an unfee’d page, with thee!

Enter Nurse.

Nurse.

My mistress bids me bring Ægisthus quickly,

To see the strangers face to face, that he

May of their sad tale more assurance win

From their own mouths. Herself to us doth show