EL. O me miserable
For thee, Orestes, if I lose thy tomb!

OR. Speak no rash word. Thou hast no right to mourn.

EL. No right to mourn my brother who is gone?

OR. Such utterance belongs not to thy tongue,

EL. Oh, am I thus dishonoured of the dead?

OR. Far from dishonour. But this ne’er was thine.

EL. Is’t not Orestes’ body that I bear?

OR. Nay, but the idle dressing of a tale.

EL. And where is his poor body’s resting-place?

OR. Nowhere. Seek not the living with the dead,