Euripides' HELEN Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Menelaus: 'Tis the contrast with my fortunes erst so blest.

Portress: Hence! then, and give thy friends those tears.

Menelaus: What land is this? whose is the palace?

Portress: Proteus lives here. It is the land of Egypt.

Menelaus: Egypt? Woe is me! to think that hither I have sailed!

Portress: Pray, what fault hast thou to find with the race of Nile?

Menelaus: 'Twas no fault I found; my own disasters I lament.

Portress: There be plenty in evil case; thou art not the only one.

Menelaus: Is the king, of whom thou speakest, here within?

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