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Heracles Mad (1116-1145)

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A bold assertion that, but you are not yet explaining what has happened.
Amphitryon
Your own eyes see that, if by this time you are restored to your senses.
Heracles
Fill in your sketch if any change awaits my life.
Amphitryon
I will explain, if you are no longer mad as a fiend of hell.
Heracles
Oh! what suspicions these dark hints of yours again excite!
Amphitryon
I am still doubtful whether you are in your sober senses.
Heracles
I have no recollection of being mad.
Amphitryon
Am I to loose my son, old friends, or what shall I do?
Heracles
Loose me, yes, and say who bound me; for I feel shame at this.
Amphitryon
Rest content with what you know of your woes; the rest forego.
Heracles
No. for is silence sufficient to learn what I wish?
Amphitryon
O Zeus, do you behold these deeds proceeding from the throne of Hera?
Heracles
What! have I suffered something from her enmity?
Amphitryon
A truce to the goddess! attend to your own troubles.
Heracles
I am undone; you will tell me some mischance.
Amphitryon
See here the corpses of your children.
Heracles
O horror! what sight is here? ah me!
Amphitryon
My son, against your children you have waged unnatural war.
Heracles
War! what do you mean? who killed these?
Amphitryon
You and your bow and some god, whoever is to blame.
Heracles
What are you saying? what have I done? Speak, father, you messenger of evil!
Amphitryon
You were insane; it is a sad explanation you are asking.
Heracles
Was it I that slew my wife also?
Amphitryon
Your own unaided arm has done all this.
Heracles
Alas! a cloud of mourning wraps me round.
Amphitryon
For this reason I lament your fate.
Heracles
Did I dash my house to pieces in my frenzy?
Amphitryon
I know nothing but this, that you are utterly undone.
Heracles
Where did the madness seize me? where did it destroy me?
Amphitryon
When you were purifying yourself with fire at the altar.

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