THE LYSISTRATA, 310-329

And if our summons they reject,

and keep the barriers shut,
Well burn the very doors with fire,

and them with smoke we'll smother.
So lay the burdens down. Pheugh ! Pheugh !

O how this smoke does bother !
What general from the Samian a lines

an active hand will lend us ?
Well, well, I'm glad my back is freed

from all that weight tremendous.
O pot, 'tis now your turn to help :

O send a livelier jet
Of flame this way, that I to-day

the earliest light may get.
O Victory, immortal Queen,6

assist us Thou in rearing
A trophy o'er these woman-hosts,

so bold and domineering,0

CHORUS OF WOMEN,

.Redly.up in the sky

the flames are beginning to flicker,
Smoke and vapour of fire !

come quicker, my friends, come quicker*

Fly, Nicodice, fly,

Else will Calyce burn,

Else Critylla will die, . . '• . . ..*...{-. •:;;:.v^.;- \>:!

Slain by the laws so stern,

Slain by the old men's hate.
Ah, but I fear ! I fear f- - '•''. ' ' : ,'••-. •;',';-:--:-.'-." .';/:;;.V;\;.;•;

can it chance that I come too late ?
Trouble it was, forsooth, before my jug 1 could £11,
All in the dusk of tluvniorh, . ;.• ; •. ••' • /• •. .';/'•:.,." .••; --..'; •":• ^>.^. "••"'
" " at the spring by the side of the ^

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