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Hippolytus (802-855)

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About her neck she tied the hangmans knot.
Theseus
Had grief so chilled her blood? or what had befallen her?
Chorus
I know but this, for I am myself but now arrived at the house
to mourn thy sorrows, O Theseus.
Theseus
Woe is me! why have I crowned my head with woven garlands, when misfortune greets my embassage? Unbolt the doors, servants,
loose their fastenings, that I may see the piteous sight,
my wife, whose death is death to me. [The palace opens, disclosing the corpse.
811
Chorus
Woe! woe is thee for thy piteous lot! thou hast done thyself a hurt deep enough to overthrow this family. Ah! ah! the daring of it! done to death by violence and unnatural means, the desperate effort
of thy own poor hand! Who cast the shadow oer thy life, poor lady?
817
Theseus
Ah me, my cruel lot! sorrow hath done her worst on me. O fortune, how heavily hast thou set thy foot on me and on my house,
by fiendish hands inflicting an unexpected stain? Nay, tis complete effacement of my life, making it impossible; for I see, alas! so wide an ocean of grief that I can never swim to shore again, nor breast the tide of this calamity.
How shall I speak of thee, my poor wife, what tale of direst suffering tell? Thou art vanished like a bird from the covert of my hand, taking one headlong leap from me to Hades halls.
Alas, and woe! this is a bitter, bitter sight! This must be a judgment sent by God for the sins of an ancestor, which from some far source I am bringing on myself.
834
Chorus
My prince, tis not to thee alone such sorrows come;
thou hast lost a noble wife, but so have many others.
836
Theseus
Fain would I go hide me neath earths blackest depth, to dwell in darkness with the dead in misery, now that I am reft of thy dear presence! for thou hast slain me than thyself een more.
Who can tell me what caused the fatal stroke that reached thy heart, dear wife? Will no one tell me what befell?
doth my palace all in vain give shelter to a herd of menials? Woe, woe for thee, my wife! sorrows
past speech, past bearing, I behold within my house; myself a ruined man, my home a solitude, my children orphans!
Chorus
Gone[*] and left us hast thou, fondest wife and noblest of all women
neath the suns bright eye or nights star-lit radiance.[*]
852
Chorus
Poor house, what sorrows are thy portion now! My eyes are wet with streams of tears to see thy fate;
but the sequel to this tragedy has long with terror filled me.

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