Leader: Thy oath by heaven, strong security, sufficiently refutes
the charge.
Theseus: A wizard or magician must the fellow be, to think he can
first flout me, his father, then by coolness master my resolve.
Hippolytus: Father, thy part in this doth fill me with amaze; wert
thou my son and I thy sire, by heaven! I would have slain, not let
thee off with banishment, hadst thou presumed to violate my honour.
Theseus: A just remark! yet shalt thou not die by the sentence thine
own lips pronounce upon thyself; for death, that cometh in a moment,
is an easy end for wretchedness. Nay, thou shalt be exiled from thy
fatherland, and wandering to a foreign shore drag out a life of misery,
for such are the wages of sin.
Hippolytus: Oh! what wilt thou do? Wilt thou banish me, without so
much as waiting for Time's evidence on my case?
Theseus: Ay, beyond the sea, beyond the bounds of Atlas, if I could,
so deeply do I hate thee.
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