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[980-996] Philoctetes<br />

ULYSSES<br />

Doubt it not.<br />

'Twas I; I do confess it.<br />

PHILOCTETES (to NEOPTOLEMUS)<br />

O my son!<br />

Give me them back.<br />

ULYSSES<br />

It must not be; with them<br />

Thyself must go, or we shall drag thee hence.<br />

PHILOCTETES<br />

And will they force me? O thou daring villain!<br />

ULYSSES<br />

They will, unless thou dost consent to go.<br />

PHILOCTETES<br />

Wilt thou, O Lemnos! wilt thou, mighty Vulcan!<br />

With thy all-conquering fire, permit me thus<br />

To be torn from thee?<br />

ULYSSES<br />

Know, great Jove himself<br />

Doth here preside. He hath decreed thy fate;<br />

I but perform his will.<br />

PHILOCTETES<br />

Detested wretch,<br />

Mak'st thou the gods a cover for thy crime?<br />

Do they teach falsehood?<br />

ULYSSES<br />

No, they taught me truth,<br />

And therefore, hence—that way thy journey lies.<br />

(Pointing to the sea)<br />

It doth not.<br />

PHILOCTETES<br />

ULYSSES<br />

But I say it must be so.<br />

PHILOCTETES<br />

And Philoctetes then was born a slave!<br />

I did not know it.

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