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Chorus
Woe! woe! alas! With due observance of funeral rites will I begin the mourning for my dead master.
Woe! woe! alas! With due observance of funeral rites will I begin the mourning for my dead master.
Peleus
Alack and well-a-day! I take up the tearful dirge, ah me! old and wretched as I am.
1200
Alack and well-a-day! I take up the tearful dirge, ah me! old and wretched as I am.
1200
Chorus
’Tis Heaven’s decree; God willed this heavy stroke.
’Tis Heaven’s decree; God willed this heavy stroke.
Peleus
O darling child,
thou hast left me all alone in my halls,
1
old and childless by thy loss.
1205
O darling child,
thou hast left me all alone in my halls,
1
old and childless by thy loss.
1205
Chorus
Thou shouldst have died, old sire, before thy children.
Thou shouldst have died, old sire, before thy children.
Peleus
Shall I not tear my hair,
and smite upon my head with grievous blows? O city! of both my children
2
hath Phoebus robbed me.
1210
Shall I not tear my hair,
and smite upon my head with grievous blows? O city! of both my children
2
hath Phoebus robbed me.
1210
Andromache. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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