Sophocles' PHILOCTETES Complete

Translated by Th. Francklin.

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Page 48

Philoctetes: Talked you of doubts? You did not surely.

Neoptolemus: Aye,
That's my misfortune.

Philoctetes: Is then my distress
The cause at last you will not take me with you?

Neoptolemus: All is distress and misery when we act
Against our nature and consent to ill.

Philoctetes: But sure to help a good man in misfortunes
Is not against thy nature.

Neoptolemus: Men will call me
A villain; that distracts me.

Philoctetes: Not for this;
For what thou meanst to do thou mayst deserve it

Neoptolemus: What shall I do? Direct me, Jove! To hide
What I should speak, and tell a base untruth
Were double guilt.

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