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Hippolytus (764-786)

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Whence comes it that her heart
is crushed, cruelly afflicted by Aphrodite with unholy love; so she by bitter grief oerwhelmed will tie a noose within her bridal bower to fit it to her fair white neck,
too modest for this hateful lot in life, prizing oer all her name and fame, and striving thus to rid her soul of passions sting.
776
Messenger
Help![*] ho! To the rescue all who near the palace stand! She hath hung herself, our queen, the wife of Theseus.
Chorus
Woe worth the day! the deed is done; our royal mistress is no more, dead she hangs in the dangling noose.
Messenger
Haste![*] some one bring a two-edged knife wherewith to cut the knot about her neck!
1st Half Chorus
Friends, what shall we do? think you we should enter the house, and loose the queen from the tight-drawn noose?
2nd Half Chorus
Why should we? Are there not young servants here?
To do too much is not a safe course in life.
Messenger
Lay[*] out the hapless corpse, straighten the limbs. This was a bitter way to sit at home and keep my masters house! [Exit Messenger.

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