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1180 Euripides [1468-1484]<br />

ION<br />

Now let my father, since he's present here,<br />

Be partner of the joy which I have given you.<br />

What says my son?<br />

CREUSA<br />

ION<br />

Such, such as I am proved.<br />

CREUSA<br />

What mean thy words? Far other is thy birth.<br />

ION<br />

Ah me! thy virgin bed produced me base.<br />

CREUSA<br />

Nor bridal torch, my son, nor bridal dance<br />

Had graced my nuptial rites, when thou wast born.<br />

ION<br />

Then I'm a wretch, a base-born wretch: say whence.<br />

CREUSA<br />

Be witness, thou by whom the Gorgon died,—<br />

ION<br />

What means this adjuration?<br />

CREUSA<br />

Who hast fix'd<br />

High o'er my cave thy seat amid the rocks<br />

With olive clothed.<br />

ION<br />

Abstruse thy words, and dark.<br />

CREUSA<br />

Where on the cliffs the nightingale attunes<br />

Her songs, Apollo—<br />

ION<br />

Why Apollo named?<br />

CREUSA<br />

Led me in secret to his bed.

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