And Justice guards it. Ye who watch our crimes,

If that loose reins to nuptial sins ye yield,

Offend, and grossly. If the murtherous wife

Escape your sharp-set vengeance, how can ye

Pursue Orestes justly? I can read

No even judgment in your partial scales,

In this more wrathful, and in that more mild.

She who is wise shall judge between us, Pallas.

Chorus.

The man is mine already. I will keep him.