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EURIPIDES.

Portress.

Thou mak'st a coil: but force shall thrust thee hence.


Menelaus.

Ah me!—where now my glorious war-array?


Portress.

Some great one haply there wast thou, not here.


Menelaus.

Ah fortune, how unmerited this slight! 455


Portress.

Why stream thine eyes with tears?—why make such moan?


Menelaus.

For those my happy fortunes overpast.


Portress.

Away then: on thy friends bestow thy tears.


Menelaus.

What land is this, and whose these royal halls?


Portress.

'Tis Proteus' palace. Egypt is the land. 460


Menelaus.

Egypt!—Woe's me, to have sailed to such a land!


Portress.

Wherefore misprize the glory[1] of the Nile?

  1. ↑ γάνος. al. γένος, "nation."
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