...l was broke; and doubts and terrors prest Her sore. While Zophiel! Meles' step I hear!— He's a betrayer! Wilt receive him still? She said in accents faint but firm, I will. Meles enters: He stopt; a groan was heard; he gasped and fell, low by the couch of her who widowed lay. Meles was a favorite of Sardius, the young king of Media. Egla, with her parents, is bidden to ...