I have a better prospect of the event.

Cleor. Dear mother! comfort me, and tell your thoughts;

For I see nothing but a gathering tempest,

Horror on horror, to the end of heaven!

Crat. No, no; you are not of a soul to bear

The mighty good and ill, that meet midway,

As from two goals; and which comes first upon us,

Fate only knows.

Cleon. Then speak to me, for I can stand the shock;

Like a young plant, that fastens in a storm,