Aegisthus: In vain: no faith is found in royal courts.285
Clytemnestra: But surely gifts will buy fidelity.
Aegisthus: Faith bought by gifts is sold for other gifts.
Clytemnestra: My strength and purity of soul revive.
Why wouldst thou thwart me? Why, with cozening words,
Wouldst thou persuade me to thy evil course?290
Dost think that I would leave a king of kings
And stoop to wed an outcast wretch like thee?
Aegisthus: What? seem I less than Atreus' son to thee,
Who am Thyestes' son?