Nurse: His fears increase, who covers crime with crime.
Clytemnestra: But iron and fire oft aid the healer's art.
Nurse: Yet desperate measures no one first attempts.
Clytemnestra: The path of sin is headlong from the first.
Nurse: Still let thy wifely duty hold thee back.155
Clytemnestra: What long-deserted wife regards her lord?
Nurse: Your common children—hast no thought of them?
Clytemnestra: I do think on my daughter's wedding rites,
High-born Achilles, and my husband's lies.
Nurse: She freed our Grecian fleet from long delay,160