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Ion (323-344)

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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.
Ion
Who is she? If she would but help me in the task, how happy should I be!
Creusa
’Tis she on whose account I have preceded my husband hither.
Ion
What are thy wishes? be sure I will serve thee, lady.
Creusa
I would fain obtain a secret answer from Apollo’s oracle.
Ion
Name it, then; the rest will I undertake for thee.
Creusa
Hear, then, this story. Yet am I ashamed.
Ion
Thus wilt thou accomplish naught, for shame is a goddess slow to act.
Creusa
A friend of mine asserts that Phoebus lay with her.
Ion
Phoebus with a mortal woman? Stranger lady, say not so.
Creusa
Yea, and she bare the god a child without her father’s knowledge.
Ion
It cannot be; some man did wrong her, and she is ashamed of it.
Creusa
This she denieis herself; and she hath suffered further woe.
Ion
How so, if she was wedded to a god?
Creusa
The babe she bare she did expose.

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