With heart released from care, will I await,
And willingly submit my head to death.
Here comes the bloody conqueror of her lord,
And bears upon her robes the stains of blood.
Her hands still reek with gore, and in her face
She bears the witness of her impious crime.950
I'll hie me to the shrine; and, kneeling here,
I'll join Cassandra in our common fear.
[Enter Clytemnestra, fresh from the murder of her husband.]
Clytemnestra [to Electra]: Thou base, unfilial, and froward girl,