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Hippolytus (840-874)

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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.
856
Theseus
Ha! what means this letter? clasped in her dear hand it hath some strange tale to tell. Hath she, poor lady, as a last request, written her bidding as to my marriage and her children?
Take heart, poor ghost; no wife henceforth shall wed thy Theseus or invade his house. Ah! how yon seal of my dead wife stamped with her golden ring affects my sight! Come, I will unfold the sealed packet
and read her letters message to me.
866
Chorus
Woe unto us! Here is yet another evil in the train by heaven sent. Looking to what has happened, I should count my lot in life no longer worth ones while to gain.[*] My masters house,
alas! is ruined, brought to naught, I say. [*]Spare it, O Heaven, if it may be. Hearken to my prayer, for I see, as with prophetic eye, an omen boding mischief.
874
Theseus
O horror! woe on woe!

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