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Ion (750-775)

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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.
774
Chorus
On him, old sir, Loxias hath bestowed a son,
and he is enjoying his good fortune apart from her.

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