Nay; I need not such soft care!

Dionysus.

So soft?

Pentheus.

Whate'er it be, I have earned it well!

[Exit Pentheus towards the Mountain.

Dionysus.

Fell, fell art thou; and to a doom so fell
Thou walkest, that thy name from South to North
Shall shine, a sign for ever!—Reach thou forth
Thine arms, Agâvê, now, and ye dark-browed
Cadmeian sisters! Greet this prince so proud
To the high ordeal, where save God and me,
None walks unscathed!—The rest this day shall see.

[Exit Dionysus following Pentheus.

Chorus.