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… the sliding plane! Hail to the honour of toil! Hail! to the ship flown free! Hail! to the golden spoil, And the glamour of all the sea! HERACLES. A good stout song, friend Argus, matching well The mighty blows thou strikest: yet methinks One blow should serve to drive yon nail well home Where thou with tenfold stroke THESEUS. Good Heracles! Not all men owe thy strength—— ARGUS. Nay, let him try! Take my toy hammer! HERACLES, T have split the wood! THESEUS. Vexation sits tremendous on his brow. Beware a hero’s fury! Thou art mad, Argus, to play…
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10 ARGONAUTAE. To move the purpose of a thousand years. ‘Go, go! HERACLES. Remember! We are met this. day To call upon the name with praise and prayer Of great Athena, since our ship is built With sculptured olive pregnant in the prow, And all the length of pine is coiled and curled With the swift serpent’s beauty, and the owl Sits in huge state upon the midmost bench. Thus, therefore, by the manifest design, Joining the wisdom to the power and will, We build the Argo. ARGUS. What a heavy club We carry! And how well becomes our figure The lion’…
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…UNDUS Till the Three Worlds flicker and falter, And life and her love be dead! In mysterious joy Awake—and destroy! JASON. It is enough! HERACLES. Too great for a god’s strength! THESEUS. Speak! CASTOR. Change! Not to be borne! POLLUX. But this is death! ORPHEUS, Let the light fade. The oracle is past. JASON. The Voice is past. We are alive again. ORPHEUS. What spake That Silence? HERACLES. “This is not a quest Where strength availeth aught.” I shall not go. JASON. Nay, brother. The voice was: “The end is sorrow!”
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…s done. JASON. How many moons, friend fool, before that day? ARGUS. These things are known not even to the Gods. Except the Father only. HERACLES. Fools must talk. ARGUS. I talk, divulging nothing. HERACLES. I strike thee, Yet act not. ARGUS. Hero, stay that heavy hand! The ship shall sail ere spring. THESEUS. But now you talk More as befits a workman to a king. JASON. Be gentle now, my friends! These shipbuilders, Reared in the rugged borders of the North,
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…for Pelias? MEN. Shall we not slay thee this presumptuous fool? JASON. I am of force, I say. I wrestled once From sunrise to sunset with Heracles, Great Heracles! Not till the full moon rose Availed his might to lay me prone. Beware! Ye weakling knaves! I am of force, I say. PELIAS. Rebellious youth, the justice of thy cause And force I will admit—where force goes far. But think’st thou wait no wild Erinnyes For thee a guest in these my halls, for thee Whose hands are dipped not yet in blood so deep As to have murdered an old man, and him Thy f…
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ARGONAUTAE. ACTUS QUARTUS. Jason, MEDEA, ORPHEUS, THESEUS, HERACLES, Chorus of Heroes, the Sirens. ScENE: Zhe Argo. MEDEA. Ay! I would murder not my brother only, But tear my own limbs, strew them on the sea, To keep one fury from the man I love! CHORUS. This act and speech are much akin to madness. MEDEA. Remember that your own skins pay the price. CHORUS. I now remember somewhat of the voice Of the oracle, that Madness should hunt hard On the thief’s furtive track, upon the prow Brooding, and at the table president, And spouse-like in the bed…
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ARGONAUTAE. ACTUS SECUNDUS. Arcus ¢he son of Purixus, JASON, HERACLES, Castor, POLLUX, THESEUS, ORPHEUS. Chorus of Heroes. Chorus of Shipbuilders. Scene: An open place near Lolchus. CHORUS OF SHIPBUILDERS. The sound of the hammer and steel! The song of the level and line! The whirr of the whistling wheel! The ring of the axe on the pine! The joy of the ended labour, As the good ship plunges free By sound of pipe and tabor To front the sparkling sea! The mystery-woven spell! The voyage of golden gain! The free full sails that swell On the swell …
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ACTUS QUARTUS 21 JASON, Those isles have faded: was this vision true? HERACLES. I know not what hath passed: I seem asleep Still, with the dream yet racing in my brain, THESEUS. There was a sweetness: whether sight or song I know not. JASON. But my veins grew strong and swollen, And madness came upon me. MEDEA. You are here, Let that suffice. Remember not! ORPHEUS. ; But now I see the haze lift on the water-way, And hidden headlands loom again. JASON. I know The pleasant portals. CHORUS. Here is home at last. ORPHEUS. The sunset comes: the mist…
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ACTUS SECUNDUS 7 HERACLES. Calm! Control thy madness! I am sorry now My pungent wit so shamed his arrogance As made him seem to scorn Athena. ARGUS. Thou! But see me, I am ruined. The good ship Is finished! Where’s my daily wage? JASON. Be sure I pay thee treble if thy tale be true. ARGUS. Ay! treble nothing! I shall buy a palace. JASON. Treble thine utmost wish. ARGUS. Two evils then Thou pilest on one good! But come and see! The Argo is discovered. CHORUS OF HEROES. By Wisdom framed from ancient days The stately Argo stands above; Too firm to…
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… me that, King, and take, thyself, a club. JASON. King Theseus, thou art far reputed wise. Hast thou not learnt a lesson from the hap Of Heracles supreme in—shipbuilding? I by my meekness will abash thy strength. Good Argus, thou art unsurpassed in art To curve the rougher timbers, to make smooth The joints and girders, and to plane and work The iron and the nailheads, and to lift Row after raw the tiers of benches thrice In triple beauty, and to shape the oars, To raise the mast-—— ARGUS. Thy knowledge staggers me! How wast thou thus instructe…
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…e to aid the work, and to perform A prodigy to save us! Mighty Queen, That art the balance and the sword alike In cunning Argus’ brain—— HERACLES. Ay! Mighty Wisdom, Who thus can overshadow such a fool, And make him capable to build a ship. ARGUS. O Thou! Athena, whose bright wisdom shone In this beef-witted fellow, making him Competent even to sweep a stable out! Glorious task!—I shall return: anon. JASON. Nay, follow not! The Goddess were displeased, Coming, to find our greatest hero gone. THESEUS. This is the midmost hour of day. It
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…d 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 delicious hours of breezy noon, Lulled by sweet voices of my singing maids ; Secure at least that no one will attempt To wreck my vir…
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…an. THESEUS, He that traps a lion And baits him for an hour, and lets him go, Does well to think before he tempt again The forest paths. HERACLES. The wise man wisely thinks That nothing is but wisdom—and myself Think strongly that no other thing exists But strength: so with his subtleties of mind He baffles me; and I lift up my club, And with one blow bespatter his wise brains. JASON. Ay, not for nothing did the darkness reign Those eight-and-forty hours, O Zeus-begot! THESEUS. Tell me, friend master, how the work goes on. When shall our galla…