Euripides' HIPPOLYTUS Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Hippolytus: Ah me! this wounds my heart and brings me nigh to tears
to think that I should appear so vile, and thou believe me so.

Theseus: Thy tears and forethought had been more in season when thou
didst presume to outrage thy father's wife.

Hippolytus: O house, I would thou couldst speak for me and witness
if I am so vile!

Theseus: Dost fly to speechless witnesses? This deed, though it speaketh
not, proves thy guilt clearly.

Hippolytus: Alas! Would I could stand and face myself, so should I
weep to see the sorrows I endure.

Theseus: Ay, 'tis thy character to honour thyself far more than reverence
thy parents, as thou shouldst.

Hippolytus: Unhappy mother! son of sorrow! Heaven keep all friends
of mine from bastard birth!

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