I do confess it, gives me greatest joy:
That thou art well assured they were thy sons.
Thyestes: I call upon the gods of innocence—
Atreus: Why not upon the gods of marriage call?
Thyestes: Why dost thou seek to punish crime with crime?
Atreus: Well do I know the cause of thy complaint:
Because I have forestalled thee in the deed.
Thou grievest, not because thou hast consumed1105
This horrid feast, but that thou wast not first
To set it forth. This was thy fell intent,