Her. Thou mock'st me verily as if I were a child.

Pr. And art thou not a child, and simpler still than this,

If thou expectest to learn aught from me?

There is not outrage nor expedient, by which

Zeus will induce me to declare these things,

Before he loose these grievous bonds.

Let there be hurled, then, flaming fire,

And the white-winged snows, and thunders

Of the earth, let him confound and mingle all.

For none of these will bend me till I tell