>> "No Rest The Guilty Find From The Pursuing Furies Of The Mind!"
>>
>> From "Hercules" by Georg Friedrich HANDEL (1685-1759):
>>
>> Where shall I fly? Where hide this guilty head?
>> O fatal error of misguided love!
>> O cruel Nessus, how art thou reveng'd!
>> Wretched I am! By me Alcides dies!
>> These impious hands have sent my injur'd lord
>> Untimely to the shades! Let me be mad!
>> Chain me, ye Furies, to your iron beds,
>> And lash my guilty ghost with whips of scorpions!
>> See, see, they come! Alecto with her snakes,
>> Megaera fell, and black Tisiphone!
>> See the dreadful sisters rise,
>> Their baneful presence taints the skies!
>> See the snaky whips they bear!
>> What yellings rend my tortur'd ear!
>> Hide me from their hated sight,
>> Friendly shades of blackest night!
>> Alas, no rest the guilty find
>> From the pursuing furies of the mind!
>>
>> (Scene 3 The Palace. Dejanira alone. 62. Accompagnato)
>> ( http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/libretti/hercules.htm )