A mad stepmother soon shall call them hers.
Through thine own heart, if so thou must, prepare
To drive the sword, and so slay two in one.200
Let thy blood flow with his; in slaying, die.
For death is sweet if with a foeman shared.
Nurse: My queen, restrain thyself, check thy wild wrath,
And think how great thy task. Atrides comes
Wild Asia's conqueror and Europe's lord;205
He leads Troy captive, Phrygia subdued.
'Gainst him wouldst thou with sly assault prevail,