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4 ARGONAUTAE ALCESTIS. Ah me! but she must wake! A black, black deed Hangs on the house. MEDEA. What meets my waking ear? Alcestis! ALCESTIS. Ah, dear queen, lament, lament! I am undone by my own—— MEDEA. What! the work? ALCESTIS. Alas! Alas! the work! MEDEA. Thy father? ALCESTIS. Slain CHORUS. Ai Ai! the old man slain! MEDEA. Ai Ai! ALCESTIS. Ai Ai! MEDEA. The strong spell broken? ALCESTIS. Nay, but thoughts arose,
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… MEDEA. To thy knees, false hound, Fawning to snap! ACASTUS. What misery, pale slaves, Lament ye? CHORUS. Ah! the ill omen! Ah, the day! Alcestis hath her sire in error slain. ACASTUS. Sister! ALCESTIS. O brother, bear thine anger back! ACASTUS. Speak! ALCESTIS. Ah, the prophecy! Ai Ai! CHORUS. Ai Ai! ACASTUS. What folly masks what wickedness? Speak on! ALCESTIS. I cannot speak. JASON. Speak thou, Medea!
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…AN. Our life Degraded to her service. SECOND WOMAN. We who are Born nobly, are become her minions. THIRD WOMAN. Slaves, not handmaidens! ALCESTIS. Ototototoi! Ai Ai! What misery! FIRST WOMAN. See! the lady weeps! ALCESTIS. Ai Ai! the black fiend, how he dogs my feet! The fatal day! Ai! Ai! CHORUS. What sorrow thus, Maiden, removes the feet of fortitude? ALCESTIS. Who shall arouse him? CHORUS. Peace, our lady sleeps N
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ACTUS QUINTUS 15 So many thoughts—or ever I was ware— And he—the cauldron seethes—— MEDEA, He rises not? ALCESTIS. Nought but moist smoke springs up. MEDEA. Alas! for me! All is but lost. ALCESTIS. Canst thou do anything? MEDEA. Nothing. Ai Ai! ALCESTIS. Ai Ai! CHORUS. Ai Ai! Ai Ai! JASON. What! Shall the hunter find his joy abroad, And sorrow in his house? MEDEA. Thy very hearth Polluted with the old man’s blood! ACASTUS. What blood? Answer me, woman!
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… But this is very difficult to do. MEDEA. For me such miracles are merely play, Serving to while away the idle hours While Jason hunts — ALCESTIS. How grand it were to see Our aged father rival the strong youths In feats of great agility! MEDEA. Agreed! But surely you should work the charm yourselves. For children magic is a blithesome game! DANAIDES. Dear lady! teach us how to say the spell! MEDEA, Words must be aided by appalling deeds! ALCESTIS. O! O! you frighten us. MEDEA, Be brave, my child! I too passed through unutterable things! ALCEST…
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…ES. We know the sire is not exactly brave, Though very wise and good. MEDEA. Tis clear to me; Without his knowledge we must do the deed. ALCESTIS. What is this “deed”? MEDEA. A caldron is prepared; And, having hewn your father limb from limb, We seethe him in a broth of magic herbs. ALCESTIS. And then? MEDEA. The proper incantations said, There rises from the steam a youthful shape More godlike than like man. nd he will fall In kind embraces on his children’s necks. ALCESTIS. O queen, this process seems indeed severe. MEDEA, Without his knowled…
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… to these Fools—charge the child with lack of fortune! MEDEA. Yea! I bade her take a waxen shape, carved well To look like the old man—— ALCESTIS. Nay! nay! the Sire Himself we stole on sleeping—— CHORUS. Hewn apart! Ai Ai! MEDEA. I said not thus! ALCESTIS, I am so wild, Bewildered with these tears. 17
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…ANAID. Nay, grieve not, dear Medea! All men say The prophecy is well fulfilled. MEDEA. Ay me! “Until the king shall die and live again.” ALCESTIS. What means that? MEDEA, I have meditated long. SECOND DANAID. To what sad end? MEDEA. At the full end I see Allusion to my magic—to that spell Whereby an old man may renew his youth. ALCESTIS. Our father! MEDEA. You have guessed aright, my child. Your father must abandon his old age And—by my magic—find sweet youth again!
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10 ARGONAUTAE ALCESTIS. Be brave, dear sisters, pluck your courage up! Easy this one condition! All is safe. MEDEA. Haste then! Good luck attend you! When the hunt Returns, how joyful—— FIRST DANAID. Striding vigorous The man renewed grasps Jason in embrace Worthy of Heracles. ALCESTIS. Thanks, thanks, dear queen ! We go, we go! MEDEA. The Goddess be your speed! Thus will the danger pass! That vicious fool Shall cease his plots against my best beloved. No taint of fell complicity shall touch My honour in this matter. I will sleep Through the de…
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ARGONAUTAE. ACTUS QUINTUS. Jason, MEpEA, Pexias, Acastus, ALCESTIS and her Sisters, MADNESS. Scene: Zhe Palace at Lolchus. MADNESS. Black Ares hath called Me forth from the deep! Blind and appalled, Shall the palace high-walled Shake as I leap Over the granite, The marble over, One step to span it, One flight to hover, Like a moon round a planet, A dream round a lover! How shall I come? Shrieking and yelling?
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ACTUS QUINTUS DANAIDES, This also seems to us no easy task. MEDEA. He sleeps through noon, while others are abroad. ALCESTIS. Let us make haste! Dear queen, how good you are! MEDEA. One thing remember! While you say the spell— Here is the parchment !—let no thought arise In any of your minds! atcestis. [Zo her Sisters.] Remember that ! MEDEA. Else—Ototototoi ! FIRST DANAID. What woe is this? MEDEA. The charm is broken. SECOND DANAID. And our father-—— MEDEA. Lost! DANAIDES. Ai Ai! Ai Ai! Ai Ai! MEDEA. Ai Ai! Ai Ai!
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…are! So mask Evil beneath the waxen face of Good, Trick out Calamity in robes of Luck— Come, children! Is the sun bright? And your eyes? ALCESTIS. Dear queen, all’s well with us. Such happiness Crowds daylight—even sleep seems sorrowful, Though bright with dainty dreams! FIRST DANAID. But you are sad! M uw