One like her, like sorrow sharing.

With her own body’s fruit she joined

Wedlock in most unholy kind,

And to her son, twin sons the mother,

O monstrous! bore:

And here they lie, by brother brother

Now drenched in gore.

STROPHE IV.
Semi-Chorus 1.

Ay, drenched in gore, in brothered gore,[n44]

Weltering they lie;