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My child, go inside, and stay beneath the shelter of your maiden chamber, now that you have had
your wish and seen all that you wanted; for a crowd of women is coming toward the royal palace, as confusion enters the city. Now women by nature love scandal; and if they get some slight handle for their gossip
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they exaggerate it, for women seem to have pleasure in saying nothing wholesome about each other.
Exeunt Antigone and the old servant.
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My child, go inside, and stay beneath the shelter of your maiden chamber, now that you have had
your wish and seen all that you wanted; for a crowd of women is coming toward the royal palace, as confusion enters the city. Now women by nature love scandal; and if they get some slight handle for their gossip
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they exaggerate it, for women seem to have pleasure in saying nothing wholesome about each other.
Exeunt Antigone and the old servant.
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The Phoenician Women. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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