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As for thy Queen of Love, a long farewell to her.
[Exit Hippolytus.
Attendants
Meantime I with sober mind, for I must not copy my young master,
do offer up my prayer to thy image, lady Cypris, in such words as it becomes a slave to use. But thou should’st pardon all, who, in youth’s impetuous heat, speak idle words of thee; make as though thou hearest not,
for gods must needs be wiser than the sons of men.
121
Chorus
A rock there is, where, as they say, the ocean dew distils, and from its beetling brow it pours a copious stream for pitchers to be dipped therein;
’twas here I had a friend washing robes of purple in the trickling stream, and she was spreading them out on the face of a warm sunny rock; from her
I had the tidings, first of all, that my mistress
131
Chorus
she was wasting on the bed of sickness, pent within her house, a thin veil o’ershadowing her head of golden hair.
And this is the third day I hear that she hath closed her lovely lips and denied her chaste body all sustenance, eager to hide her suffering
and reach death’s cheerless bourn.
141
Chorus
Maiden, thou must be possessed, by Pan made frantic or by Hecate, or by the Corybantes dread, and Cybele the mountain mother.
Or maybe thou hast sinned against Dictynna, huntress-queen, and art wasting for thy guilt in sacrifice
unoffered. For she doth range o’er lakes’ expanse and past the bounds of earth

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