Meg. Shame, truly! no near neighbors he and Shame!

Her. And so much, in my absence, lacked I friends?

Meg. Friends,—are there any to a luckless man?

Her. The Minuai-war I waged,—they spat forth these?

Meg. Friendless—again I tell thee—is ill-luck.

Her. Will not you cast these hell-wraps from your hair

And look on light again, and with your eyes

Taste the sweet change from nether dark to day?

While I—for now there needs my handiwork—

First I shall go, demolish the abodes