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Hippolytus (1250-1280)

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yet will I never believe so monstrous a charge against thy sons
character, no! not though the whole race of womankind should hang itself, or one should fill with writing every pine-tree tablet grown on Ida, sure as I am of his uprightness.
Chorus
Alas! new troubles come to plague us, nor is there any escape from fate and necessity.
Theseus
My hatred for him who hath thus suffered made me glad at thy tidings, yet from regard for the gods and him, because he is my son,
I feel neither joy nor sorrow at his sufferings.
Messenger
But say, are we to bring the victim hither, or how are we to fulfil thy wishes? Bethink thee; if by me thou wilt be schooled, thou wilt not harshly treat thy son in his sad plight.
Theseus
Bring him hither, that when I see him face to face, who hath denied having polluted my wifes honour, I may by words and heavens visitation convict him.
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Chorus
Ah! Cypris, thine the hand that guides the stubborn hearts of gods and men; thine,
and that attendant boys, who, with painted plumage gay, flutters round his victims on lightning wing. Oer the land and booming deep on golden pinion borne flits the god of Love,
maddening the heart and beguiling the senses of all whom he attacks, savage whelps on mountains bred, oceans monsters, creatures of this sun-warmed earth,
and man; thine, O Cypris, thine alone the sovereign power to rule them all.

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