Servant.

He, who was dead, has slain the quick. ’Tis so.

Clytemnestra.

Ha! Thou speak’st riddles; but I understand thee.

We die by guile, as guilefully we slew.

Bring me an axe! an axe to kill a man!

Quickly!—or conqueror or conquered, I

Will fight it out. To this ’tis come at last.

[Enter Orestes, dragging in the dead body of Ægisthus; with him Pylades.

Orestes.