Of your own house beside, when faring ill

By any chance: and you shall recollect

Slaves are you of a tyranny that 's mine!

Cho. O progeny of earth,—whom Ares sowed

When he laid waste the dragon's greedy jaw—

Will ye not lift the staves, right-hand supports,

And bloody this man's irreligious head?

Who, being no Kadmeian, rules,—the wretch,—

Our easy youth: an interloper too!

But not of me, at least, shalt thou enjoy