Chorus: Oh, horrid deed!

Messenger: What! horrid call ye that?

If only there the course of crime had stopped,

'Twould pious seem.745

Chorus: What more atrocious crime,

What greater sin could human heart conceive?

Messenger: And do ye think his crime was ended here?

'Twas just begun.

Chorus: What further could there be?

Perchance he threw the corpses to be torn