Now let my tears my penitence approve.
Thou, first of all mankind, beholdest me
A suppliant; these hands, which never yet
Have touched the feet of man, are laid on thine.
Let all thy wrathful feelings be forgot,
Be utterly erased from off thy soul;520
And take, O brother, as my pledge of faith
These guiltless sons of mine.
Atreus: Lay not thy hands
Upon my knees. Come, rather, to my arms.