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Ion (746-787)

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Never willingly, but I am not master of that which is mine no more.
Creusa
Maidens mine, my trusty servants at the loom and web, declare to me how my lord hath fared as touching the question of offspring which brought us hither:
for if ye give me good news, ye will cause joy to a mistress who will not prove faithless to her word.
Chorus
O fortune!
Old Servant
This prelude to your speech is unlucky.
Chorus
Woe is me!
Old Servant
Can it be that the oracles delivered to my master wound me at all?
Chorus
Enough! why have aught to do with that which brings down death?
Creusa
What means this piteous strain? wherefore this alarm?
Chorus
Are we to speak or keep silence? What shall we do?
Creusa
Speak; for thou hast somewhat to tell that touches me.
Chorus
Then speak I will, though twice to die were mine. O mistress mine! never shalt thou hold a babe within thy arms or clasp him to thy breast.
Creusa
Ah me! would I were dead!
Old Servant
My daughter!
Creusa
O woe is me for my calamity! Mine is a heritage of suffering and woe that poisons life, good friends.
Old Servant
Ah, my child, ’tis death to us!
Creusa
Ah me! ah me! grief drives its weapon through this heart of mine.
Old Servant
Stay thy lamentations.
Creusa
Nay, but sorrow lodges here.
Old Servant
Till we learn—
Creusa
Ah, what further news is there for me?
Old Servant
Whether our master is in the same plight and shares thy misfortune, or thou art alone in thy misery.
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Chorus
On him, old sir, Loxias hath bestowed a son,
and he is enjoying his good fortune apart from her.
Creusa
Herein hast thou declared a further evil crowning all, a grief for me to mourn.
Old Servant
The child of whom thou speakest—is he some woman’s destined babe, or did the god declare the fate of one already born?
Chorus
A youth already born and grown to man’s estate doth Phoebus give to him; for I was there myself.
Creusa
What sayest thou? nor tongue nor lip should speak the word thou tellest me.
Old Servant
And me. But declare more clearly how this oracle is finding its fulfilment, and say who is the child.
Chorus
Whomso thy husband first should meet as he issued from the shrine, him the god gave him for his son.

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