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The Chorus of Argive Maidens enters quietly. The following lines between Electra and the Chorus are chanted responsively.
Chorus
Hush, hush! let your footsteps fall lightly! not a sound!
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Hush, hush! let your footsteps fall lightly! not a sound!
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Electra
Go further from his couch, further, I beseech you!
Go further from his couch, further, I beseech you!
Chorus
There, I obey.
There, I obey.
Electra
Ah, ah! Speak like the breath of a slender reed-pipe, my dear, I pray.
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Ah, ah! Speak like the breath of a slender reed-pipe, my dear, I pray.
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Chorus
See, how soft and low I drop my voice.
See, how soft and low I drop my voice.
Electra
Yes, do so; approach now, softly, softly!
Give me an account of why you have come here. For at last he has lain down, and sleeps.
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Yes, do so; approach now, softly, softly!
Give me an account of why you have come here. For at last he has lain down, and sleeps.
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Orestes. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1891.
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