Attendant: Oh, count it wrong
To harm thy brother, though he basest be.
Atreus: Whatever may not lawfully be done220
To brothers, may with perfect right be done
To him. What is there left me now unstained
By crime of his? Where has he failed to sin?
My wife has he debauched, my kingdom stolen,
The ancient emblem of our dynasty
By fraud obtained, and all our royal house
By that same fraud in dire confusion plunged.