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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!
Nurse
My child, what wild speech is this? O say not such things in public, wild whirling words of frenzy bred!
Phaedra
Away to the mountain take me! to the wood, to the pine-trees I will go, where hounds pursue the prey, hard on the scent of dappled fawns. Ye gods! what joy to hark them on,
to grasp the barbed dart, to poise Thessalian hunting-spears close to my golden hair, then let them fly.
Nurse
Why, why, my child, these anxious cares? What hast thou to do with the chase?
Why so eager for the flowing spring, when hard by these towers stands a hill well watered, whence thou mayst freely draw?
Phaedra
O Artemis, who watchest oer sea-beat Limna[*] and the race-course thundering to the horses hoofs,
would I were upon thy plains curbing Venetian steeds!
Nurse
Why betray thy frenzy in these wild whirling words? Now thou wert for hasting hence to the hills away to hunt wild beasts, and now
thy yearning is to drive the steed over the waveless sands. This needs a cunning seer to say what god it is that reins thee from the course, distracting thy senses, child.
239
Phaedra
Ah me! alas! what have I done?
Whither have I strayed, my senses leaving? Mad, mad! stricken by some demons curse! Woe is me! Cover my head again, nurse.
Shame fills me for the words I have spoken.
Hide me then; from my eyes the tear-drops stream, and for very shame I turn them away. Tis painful coming to ones senses again, and madness, evil though it be, has this advantage, that one has no knowledge of reasons overthrow.

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