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[681-696] Medea 739<br />

AEGEUS<br />

Till I to my native home return.<br />

MEDEA<br />

What object hast thou in sailing to this land?<br />

AEGEUS<br />

O'er Troezen's realm is Pittheus king.<br />

MEDEA<br />

Pelops' son, a man devout they say.<br />

AEGEUS<br />

To him I fain would impart the oracle of the god.<br />

MEDEA<br />

The man is shrewd and versed in such-like lore.<br />

AEGEUS<br />

Aye, and to me the dearest of all my warrior friends.<br />

MEDEA<br />

Good luck to thee I success to all thy wishes!<br />

AEGEUS<br />

But why that downcast eye, that wasted cheek?<br />

MEDEA<br />

O Aegeus, my husband has proved most evil.<br />

AEGEUS<br />

What meanest thou? explain to me clearly the cause of thy despondency.<br />

MEDEA<br />

Jason is wronging me though I have given him no cause.<br />

AEGEUS<br />

What hath he done? tell me more clearly.<br />

MEDEA<br />

He is taking another wife to succeed me as mistress of his house.<br />

AEGEUS<br />

Can he have brought himself to such a dastard deed?<br />

MEDEA<br />

Be assured thereof; I, whom he loved of yore, am in dishonour now.

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