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778 Euripides [568-598]<br />

LEADER<br />

I am silent; this is surely the prelude to evil.<br />

PHAEDRA (chanting)<br />

Great gods! how awful are my sufferings!<br />

CHORUS (chanting)<br />

What a cry was there! what loud alarm! say what sudden terror,<br />

lady, doth thy soul dismay.<br />

PHAEDRA<br />

I am undone. Stand here at the door and hear the noise arising in the<br />

house.<br />

CHORUS (chanting)<br />

Thou art already by the bolted door; 'tis for thee to note the<br />

sounds that issue from within. And tell me, O tell me what evil can<br />

be on foot.<br />

PHAEDRA<br />

'Tis the son of the horse-loving Amazon who calls, Hippolytus, uttering<br />

foul curses on my servant.<br />

CHORUS (chanting)<br />

I hear a noise, but cannot clearly tell which way it comes. Ah!<br />

'tis through the door the sound reached thee.<br />

PHAEDRA<br />

Yes, yes, he is calling her plainly enough a go-between in vice, traitress<br />

to her master's honour.<br />

CHORUS (chanting)<br />

Woe, woe is me! thou art betrayed, dear mistress! What counsel<br />

shall I give thee? thy secret is out; thou art utterly undone.<br />

Ah me! ah me!<br />

PHAEDRA<br />

CHORUS (chanting)<br />

Betrayed by friends!<br />

PHAEDRA<br />

She hath ruined me by speaking of my misfortune; 'twas kindly<br />

meant, but an ill way to cure my malady.<br />

LEADER OF <strong>THE</strong> CHORUS<br />

O what wilt thou do now in thy cruel dilemma?

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