Sophocles' PHILOCTETES Complete

Translated by Th. Francklin.

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Page 27

Philoctetes: O happy hour! O kindest, best of men!
And you my dearest friends! how shall I thank you?
What shall I do to show my grateful heart?
Let us be gone! But, oh! permit me first
To take a last farewell of my poor hut,
Where I so long have lived. Perhaps you'll say
I must have had a noble mind to bear it.
The very sight to any eyes but mine
Were horrible, but sad necessity
At length prevailed, and made it pleasing to me.

Leader: One from our ship, my lord, and with him comes
A stranger. Stop a moment till we hear
Their business with us. (The Spy enters, dressed as a merchant. He
is accompanied by one of Neoptolemus'men.)

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