Chorus.
Speak: I am willing, if I can, to please thee.
Eteocles.
Please me by silence; do not fright thy friends.
Chorus.
I speak no more: and wait my doom with them.
Eteocles.
This word is wiser than a host of wails.
And now, instead of running to and fro,
Clinging to every image as you pass,