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Ion (331-360)

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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.
Ion
Where is the child who was thus cast forth? is he yet alive?
Creusa
No man knoweth. That is the very thing I would ask the oracle.
Ion
But if he be no more, how did he perish?
Creusa
She supposes that beasts devoured the hapless babe.
Ion
What proof led her to form this opinion?
Creusa
She came to the place where she exposed him, but found him no longer there.
Ion
Were any drops of blood upon the path?
Creusa
None, she says; and yet she ranged the ground to and fro.
Ion
How long is it since the babe was destroyed?
Creusa
Thy age and his would measure out the self-same span, were he alive.
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Ion
Hath she given birth to no other child since then?
Creusa
The god doth wrong her, and wretched is she in having no child.
Ion
But what if Phoebus privily removed her child, and is rearing it?
Creusa
Then is he acting unfairly in keeping to himself alone a joy he ought to share.
Ion
Ah me! this misfortune sounds so like my own.
Creusa
Thee too, fair sir, thy poor mother misses, I am sure.

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