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772 Euripides [331-346]<br />

PHAEDRA<br />

I do, for 'tis out of shame I am planning an honourable escape.<br />

NURSE<br />

Tell it, and thine honour shall the brighter shine.<br />

PHAEDRA<br />

Away, I do conjure thee; loose my hand.<br />

NURSE<br />

I will not, for the boon thou shouldst have granted me is denied.<br />

PHAEDRA<br />

I will grant it out of reverence for thy holy suppliant touch.<br />

NURSE<br />

Henceforth I hold my peace; 'tis thine to speak from now.<br />

PHAEDRA<br />

Ah! hapless mother, what a love was thine!<br />

NURSE<br />

Her love for the bull? daughter, or what meanest thou?<br />

PHAEDRA<br />

And woe to thee I my sister, bride of Dionysus.<br />

NURSE<br />

What ails thee, child? speaking ill of kith and kin.<br />

PHAEDRA<br />

Myself the third to suffer I how am I undone!<br />

NURSE<br />

Thou strik'st me dumb! Where will this history end?<br />

PHAEDRA<br />

That "love" has been our curse from time long past.<br />

NURSE<br />

I know no more of what I fain would learn.<br />

PHAEDRA<br />

Ah ! would thou couldst say for me what I have to tell.<br />

NURSE<br />

I am no prophetess to unriddle secrets.

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