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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 deaths 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 oer lakes expanse and past the bounds of earth
upon the oceans tossing billows.
151
Chorus
Or doth some rival in thy house beguile thy lord, the captain of Erechtheus sons, that hero nobly bom, to secret amours hid from thee?
Or hath some mariner sailing hither from Crete reached this port that sailors love, with evil tidings for our queen, and she with sorrow for her grievous fate
is to her bed confined?
161
Chorus
Yea, and oft oer womans wayward nature settles a feeling of miserable perplexity, arising from labour-pains or passionate desire.
I, too, have felt at times this sharp thrill shoot through me, but I would cry to Artemis, queen of archery, who comes from heaven to aid us in our travail, and thanks to heavens grace she ever comes at my call with welcome help.
170
Chorus
Look! where the aged nurse is bringing her forth from the house before the door, while on her brow the cloud of gloom is deepening. My soul longs to learn what is her grief, the canker that is
wasting our queens fading charms.
Nurse
O, the ills of mortal men! the cruel diseases they endure! What can I do for thee? from what refrain? Here is the bright sun-light, here the azure sky; lo! we have brought thee on thy bed of sickness
without the palace; for all thy talk was of coming hither, but soon back to thy chamber wilt thou hurry. Disappointment follows fast with thee, thou hast no joy in aught for long; the present has no power to please; on something absent
next thy heart is set. Better be sick than tend the sick; the first is but a single ill, the last unites mental grief with manual toil. Mans whole life is full of anguish;
no respite from his woes he finds; but if there is aught to love beyond this life, nights dark pall doth wrap it round. And so we show our mad love of this life because its light is shed on earth,
and because we know no other, and have naught revealed to us of all our earth may hide; and trusting to fables we drift at random.
198
Phaedra
Lift my body, raise my head! My limbs are all unstrung, kind friends.
O handmaids, lift my arms, my shapely arms. The tire on my head is too heavy for me to wear; away with it, and let my tresses oer my shoulders fall.
Nurse
Be of good heart, dear child; toss not so wildly to and fro.
Lie still, be brave, so wilt thou find thy sickness easier to bear; suffering for mortals is natures iron law.
Phaedra
Ah! would I could draw a draught of water pure from some dew-fed spring, and lay me down to rest in the grassy meadow neath the poplars shade!

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