ERECHTHEUS.

Die shalt thou not, yet give thy blood to death.


PRAXITHEA.

If this ring worse I know not; strange it rang. 290


ERECHTHEUS.

Alas, thou knowest not; woe is me that know.


PRAXITHEA.

And woe shall mine be, knowing; yet halt not here.


ERECHTHEUS.

Guiltless of blood this state may stand no more.


PRAXITHEA.

Firm let it stand whatever bleed or fall.