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xxxv

<div>PENTHEUS</div><div></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Untie his hands, he's in my net,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>he won't be dancing out of this.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Well, you're not impossible to look at, are you?</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Women wouldn't think so, anyway. Not in Thebes,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>they wouldn't, which is why you're here, of course.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>What a mane of hair you have: very seductive.&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Look at it falling down your cheeks.&nbsp;</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Good hand holds for a wrestler.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>And how white your skin is: you must be careful</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>about staying out of the sun.</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Oh yes, handsome you, in the shade,</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>hunting with Aphrodite. All right, who are you?</div>
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