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Hippolytus (517-596)

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I cannot tell; be content, my child, to profit by it and ask no questions.
Phaedra
I fear me thou wilt prove too wise for me.
Nurse
If thou fear this, confess thyself afraid of all; but why thy terror?
Phaedra
Lest thou shouldst breathe a word of this to Theseus son.
Nurse
Peace, my child! I will do all things well; only be thou, queen Cypris, oceans child, my partner in the work! And for the rest of my purpose, it will be enough for me to tell it to Our friends within the house. [Exit Nurse.
525
Chorus
O Love, Love, that from the eyes diffusest soft desire, bringing on the souls of those, whom thou dost camp against, sweet grace, O never in evil mood appear to me, nor out of time and tune approach!
Nor fire nor meteor hurls a mightier bolt than Aphrodites shaft shot by the hands of Love, the child of Zeus.
535
Chorus
Idly, idly by the streams of Alpheus and in the Pythian shrines of Phoebus, Hellas
heaps the slaughtered steers; while Love we worship not, Love, the king of men, who holds the key to Aphrodites
sweetest bower,—worship not him who, when he comes, lays waste and marks his path to mortal hearts by wide-spread woe.
545
Chorus
There was that maiden[*] in Oechalia, a girl unwed, that knew no wooer yet nor married joys; her did the queen of Love[*] snatch from her home across the sea
and gave unto Alcmenas son, mid blood and smoke and murderous marriage-hymns, to be to him a frantic fiend of hell; woe! woe for his wooing!
555
Chorus
Ah! holy walls of Thebes, ah! fount of Dirce, ye could testify what course the love-queen follows. For with the blazing levin-bolt
did she cut short the fatal marriage of Semele, mother of Zeus-bom Bacchus. All things she doth inspire, dread goddess, winging her flight hither and thither like a bee.
565
Phaedra
Peace, ladies, peace! I am undone.
Chorus
What, Phaedra, is this dread event within thy house?
Phaedra
Hush! let me hear what those within are saying.
Chorus
I am silent; this is surely the prelude to mischief.
Phaedra
Great gods!
how awful are my sufferings!
571
Chorus
What a cry was there! what loud alarm! say what sudden terror, lady, doth thy soul dismay.
575
Phaedra
I am undone. Stand here at the door and hear the noise arising in the house.
577
Chorus
Thou art already by the bolted door; tis for thee to note the sounds that issue from within. And tell me, O tell me what mischief can be on foot.
581
Phaedra
Tis the son of the horse-loving Amazon who calls, Hippolytus, uttering foul curses on my servant.
585
Chorus
I hear a noise, but cannot clearly tell[*] which way it comes. Ah! tis through the door the sound reached thee.
589
Phaedra
Yes, yes, he is calling her plainly enough a go-between in vice,
traitress to her masters honour.
591
Chorus
Woe, woe is me! thou art betrayed, dear mistress! What counsel shall I give thee? thy secret is out; thou art utterly undone.
Phaedra
Ah me! ah me!
Chorus
Betrayed by friends!
596
Phaedra
She hath ruined me by speaking of my misfortune; twas kindly meant, but an ill way to cure my malady.

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