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Ion (301-330)

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As a spectator merely, or to consult the oracle?
Creusa
’Tis his wish to hear the self-same answer from Trophonius and Phoebus too.
Ion
Is it to seek earth’s produce or fruit of offspring that ye come?
Creusa
We are childless, though wedded these many years.
Ion
Hast thou never been a mother? art thou wholly childless?
Creusa
Phoebus knows whether I am childless.
Ion
Unhappy wife! how this doth mar thy fortune else so happy!
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Creusa
But who art thou? how blest I count thy mother!
Ion
Lady, I am called the servant of Apollo, and so I am.
Creusa
An offering of thy city, or sold to him by some master?
Ion
Naught know I but this, that I am called the slave of Loxias.
Creusa
Then do i in my turn pity thee, sir stranger.
Ion
Because I know not her that bare me, or him that begat me.
Creusa
Is thy home here in the temple, or hast thou a house to dwell in?
Ion
The god’s whole temple is my house, wherever sleep o’ertakes me.
Creusa
Was it as a child or young man that thou earnest to the temple?
Ion
Those who seem to know the truth, say I was but a babe.
Creusa
What Delphian maid, then, weaned thee?
Ion
I never knew a mother’s breast. But she who brought me up—
Creusa
Who was she, unhappy youth? I see thy sufferings in my own.
Ion
The priestess of Phoebus; I look oh her as my mother.
Creusa
Until thou earnest unto man’s estate, what nurture hadst thou?
Ion
The altar fed me, and the bounty of each casual guest.
Creusa
Woe is thy mother, then, whoe’er she was!
Ion
Maybe my birth was some poor woman’s wrong.
Creusa
Hast thou any store, for thy dress is costly enough?
Ion
The god I serve gives me these robes to wear.
Creusa
Wert thou never eager to inquire into thy birth?
Ion
Ah! yes, lady! but I have no clue at all to guide me.
Creusa
Alas! I know another woman who hath suffered as thy mother did.

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