Nurse: Too true; and, hadst thou been an eye-witness of the action,
verily thy pity would have been yet deeper.
Leader: And could a woman's hand dare to do such deeds?
Nurse: Yea, with dread daring; thou shalt hear, and then thou wilt
bear me witness.
When she came alone into the house, and saw her son preparing a deep
litter in the court, that he might go back with it to meet his sire,
then she hid herself where none might see; and, falling before the
altars, she wailed aloud that they were left desolate; and, when she
touched any-household thing that she had been wont to use, poor lady,
in the past, her tears would flow; or when, roaming hither and thither
through the house, she beheld the form of any well-loved servant,
she wept, hapless one, at that sight, crying aloud upon her own fate,
and that of the household which would thenceforth be in the power
of others.
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