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Ion (1473-1500b)

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Alas for me! Am I a bastard, then, bom in thy maiden days?
Creusa
Nor nuptial torch nor dance,
my child, ushered in my wedding and thy birth.
Ion
O mother, mother! whence do I draw my base origin?
Creusa
Be witness she who slew the Gorgon,
Ion
What meanest thou?
Creusa
She that on my native rocks
makes the olive-clad hill her seat.
Ion
Thy words to me are but as cunning riddles. I cannot read them.
Creusa
Hard by the rock with nightingales melodious, Phoebus,
Ion
Why dost thou mention Phoebus?
Creusa
Forced on me his secret love.
Ion
Say on; for thy story will crown me with fame and fortune.
Creusa
And as the tenth month came round I bore a child to Phoebus in secret.
Ion
Oh! thy happy tidings, if thy story is true.
Creusa
And about thee as swaddling-clothes I fastened this my maiden work,
the faulty efforts of my loom. But to my breast I never held thy lips, or suckled or washed thee with a mothers care; but in a desert cave wert thou cast out
to die, for taloned kites to rend and feast upon.
Ion
An awful deed! O mother!
Creusa
Fear held me captive, and I cast thy life away, my child;
I would, though loth, have slain thee too.
Ion
Thou too wert all but slain by me most impiously.

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