Who hath o'erthrown my house. Whose prey am I?1185
Amphitr.: Let ills like these in silence pass away.
Hercules: And I be unavenged?
Amphitryon: But vengeance hurts.
Hercules: Who has, inactive, ever borne such wrongs?
Amphitr.: He who feared greater wrongs.
Hercules: Than these my wrongs
Can any greater, heavier be feared?1190
Amphitr.: The part thou knowest of thy woes is least.
Hercules: Have pity. See, I stretch my suppliant hands.