Or. True: for it gives a show of seeming health;
And shows are good, although there be no substance.
[Orestes changes his posture and sits at ease.
El. Now listen to me, dearest brother mine,
While the dread Furies leave you space to think.
Or. What have you new to say? Good news will cheer me;
But of what's bad I have enough already.
El. Menelaus is here, your father's brother:
His ships are safely moored in Nauplia.
Or. What! Has he come to end your woes and mine?
He is our kinsman and our father's debtor.
El. He has: and this is surety for my words—
Helen hath come with him from Troy, is here.
Or. If heaven had saved but him, he'd now be happier:
But with his wife, he brings a huge curse home.
El. Yea: Tyndareus begat a brood of daughters
Marked out for obloquy, a shame through Hellas.
Or. Be you, then, other than the bad; you can:
Make not fine speeches, but be rightly minded!