{"id":38,"date":"2020-07-23T13:45:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T17:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/phedre\/?post_type=chapter&p=38"},"modified":"2020-07-23T16:38:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T20:38:28","slug":"act-three","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/chapter\/act-three\/","title":{"raw":"Act Three","rendered":"Act Three"},"content":{"raw":"
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<\/span>FIRST SCENE.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\nPHAEDRUS, OENONE.<\/strong>\r\n<\/span><\/span>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Ah!\u00a0that one carries elsewhere the honors which one sends to me:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Importance, can you wish you could see me?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What are you flattering my sorry mind about?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Rather, hide me: I have spoken too much.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
My fury outside dared to spread:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I said what you should never hear.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Heaven!\u00a0how he listened to me!\u00a0By how many detours<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The insensitive has long evaded my speeches!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
How he breathed only a quick retreat!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And how much her blush has redoubled my shame!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Why did you hijack my fatal design?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Alas!\u00a0when his sword went to seek my breast,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Has he paled for me?\u00a0did he tear it from me?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
My hand just has to touch it once,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I made her horrible in her inhuman eyes;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And that unfortunate iron would desecrate his hands.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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So, in your misfortunes, thinking only of complaining,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You are feeding a fire that you should put out.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Wouldn't it be better, worthy blood of Minos,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
In nobler cares, seek your rest;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Against an ungrateful who pleases to resort to flight,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Rule, and the state embrace leadership?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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I reign!\u00a0Me, put a state under my law<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
When my weak reason no longer reigns over me!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
When I have abandoned the empire with my senses!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
When under a shameful yoke I hardly breathe!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
When I die!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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<\/span>Run away.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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<\/span>I cannot leave him.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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You dared to banish it, you dare not avoid it?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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The time is past: he knows my insane ardor.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
From austere modesty the limits have passed:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I declared my shame in the eyes of my victor,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And despite myself hope slipped into my heart.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Yourself, recalling my failing strength,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And my soul already on my wandering lips,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
By your flattering advice you were able to revive me:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You gave me a glimpse that I could love her.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Alas!\u00a0of your innocent or guilty misfortunes,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What was I not capable of to save you?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But if the offense ever irritates your spirits,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Can you wonderfully forget the contempt?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
With what cruel eyes his stubborn rigor<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Left you at his feet little by little prostrate!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
How odious his fierce pride made him!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
That Ph\u00e8dre had my eyes at this moment!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Oenone, he can leave this pride that hurts you;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Fed in the forests, it is rough.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Hippolyte, hardened by savage laws,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Hear about love for the first time:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Perhaps his surprise caused his silence;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And our complaints perhaps have too much violence.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Consider that a barbarian in its midst formed it.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Although Scythian and barbarian, she nevertheless loved.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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He has a fatal hatred for all sex.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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I will not see myself preferring a rival.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Finally all your advice is no longer in season:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Serve my fury, Oenone, and not my reason.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
He opposes an inaccessible heart to love;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Let us seek to attack it some more sensitive place:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The charms of an empire seemed to touch him:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Athens attracted him, he could not hide from it;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Already of his vessels the point was turned,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And the sail floated in the winds abandoned.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Go find this ambitious young man from me,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Oenone;\u00a0make the crown shine in his eyes:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Let him put the sacred diadem on his forehead;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I only want the honor of attaching it myself.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Let us give him this power which I cannot keep.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
He will instruct my son in the art of commanding;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Perhaps he will want to take the place of his father;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I put under his power both the son and the mother.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
To finally flex it, try all means:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Your speeches will find more access than mine;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Press, cry, moan;\u00a0paint her dying Phaedra;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Do not blush to take a pleading voice:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I will confess everything to you;\u00a0I only hope in you.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Go: I'm waiting for your return to dispose of me.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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<\/span>SCENE II.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\nPHAEDRUS.<\/strong>\r\n<\/span><\/span>\r\n
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O you who see the shame in which I am descended,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Implacable Venus, am I confused enough!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You could not push your cruelty further.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Your triumph is perfect;\u00a0all your features have worn.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Cruel, if you want new glory,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Attack an enemy who is more rebellious to you.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Hippolyte runs away from you;\u00a0and braving your wrath,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Never at your altars did your knees bend;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Your name seems to offend her beautiful ears:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Goddess, avenge yourself;\u00a0our causes are the same.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
That he loves ... But you are already retracing your steps,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
\u0152none!\u00a0They hate me;\u00a0we don't listen to you!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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<\/span>SCENE III.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\nPHAEDRUS, OENONE.\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Thought must be stifled with vain love,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Mrs ;\u00a0recall your past virtue:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The king, who was believed dead, will appear before your eyes;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Theseus has arrived, Theseus is in these places.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The people, to see him, run and rush.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I went out by your order, and looked for Hippolyte,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
When to the sky a thousand slender cries ...<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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My husband is alive, Oenone;\u00a0that's enough.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I have made the unworthy confession of a love which outrages her;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
He lives: I don't want to know more.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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What?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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<\/span>I predicted it to you;\u00a0but you didn't want:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Your tears have prevailed over my just remorse.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I was dying this morning worthy of being mourned;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I followed your advice, I die dishonored.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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You die ?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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<\/span>Good heaven !\u00a0what did I do today!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
My husband will appear, and his son with him!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I will see the witness of my adulterous flame<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Observe with what front I dare to approach his father,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
His heart heavy with sighs that he did not listen to,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The eye wet with tears by the ungrateful repulsed!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Do you think that, sensitive to the honor of Theseus,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Does he hide from him the ardor with which I am ablaze?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Will he let his father and his king betray?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Will he be able to contain the horror he has for me?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
He would be silent in vain: I know my treachery,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Oenone, and am not one of those bold women<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Who, tasting a quiet peace in crime,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Have known how to make a forehead that never blushes.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I know my anger, I recall them all:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
It already seems to me that these walls, that these vaults<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Will speak, and ready to accuse me,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Wait for my husband to disillusion him.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Let us die: from so many horrors that death delivers me.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Is it such a great misfortune to cease to live?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Death to the unfortunate does not cause fear:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I only fear the name I leave after me.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
For my sad children what a dreadful heritage!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The blood of Jupiter must swell their courage;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But some just pride inspired by such beautiful blood,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
A mother's crime is a heavy burden.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I tremble that a speech, alas!\u00a0too real,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
One day does not blame them for a guilty mother.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I tremble that oppressed by this odious weight<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Neither of them dare look up.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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There is no doubt about it, I pity them both;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Never was fear more just than yours.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But to such insults why expose them?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Why are you going to file against yourself?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
It is over: we will say that Ph\u00e8dre, too guilty,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
From her betrayed husband flees the dreadful aspect.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Hippolyte is happy that at the expense of your days<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You yourself, breathing out, supporting his speeches.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What can I say to your accuser?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I will be too easy to confuse in front of him:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I will see him enjoy his frightful triumph,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And tell your shame to whoever wants to hear it.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Ah!\u00a0that rather from the sky the flame devours me!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But, do not deceive me, is he still dear to you?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
How do you see this daring prince?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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I see him as a frightful monster in my eyes.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Why then give it an entire victory?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You fear him: dare to accuse him first<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Of the crime he can charge you with today.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Who will deny you?\u00a0Everything speaks against him:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
His sword in your hands happily left,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Your present trouble, your past pain,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
His father had long been warned by your cries,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And already his exile by yourself obtained.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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I, how I dare to oppress and blacken innocence!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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My zeal needs only your silence.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Trembling like you, I feel some remorse.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You would see me more quickly face a thousand dead.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But since I am losing you without this sad remedy,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Your life is for me a price to which everything yields:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I will speak.\u00a0Theseus, embittered by my advice,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Will limit his revenge to the exile of his son:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
A father, when punishing, madame, is always a father;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
A light torture is enough for his anger.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But, should innocent blood be shed,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What does not your threatened honor ask for?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
It is too expensive a treasure to dare to commit it.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Whatever law it dictates to you, you must submit to it,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Mrs ;\u00a0and to save your fought honor,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Everything must be sacrificed, and even virtue.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
We come ;\u00a0I see Theseus.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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<\/span>Ah!\u00a0I see Hippolyte;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
In his insolent eyes I see my written loss.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Do what you want, I surrender to you.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
In the trouble I am in, I can do nothing for myself.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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<\/span>SCENE IV.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\nTHESEUS, PHAEDRUS, HIPPOLYTE, THERAMENES, OENONE.\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Fortune to my\u00a0<\/span>wishes<\/span><\/span>\u00a0ceases to be opposed,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Madam, and in your arms put ...<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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<\/span>\u00a0Stop, Theseus,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And do not desecrate such charming transports:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I no longer deserve this sweet eagerness;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You are offended.\u00a0Jealous fortune<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Did not spare your wife in your absence.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Unworthy to please you and to approach you,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I must now think only of hiding.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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<\/span>SCENE V.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\nTHESEUS, HIPPOLYTE, THERAMENE.\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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What is the strange welcome we give to your father,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
My son ?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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<\/span>Ph\u00e8dre alone can explain this mystery.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But if my ardent wishes can move you,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Allow me, lord, not to see her again;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Suffer that the trembling Hippolyte forever<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Disappear from the places where your wife lives.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Will you, my son, leave me?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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<\/span>I wasn't looking for her;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
It is you who lead his steps on these shores.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You deigned, lord, on the banks of Tr\u00e9z\u00e8ne<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
When leaving Aricie and the queen:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I was even charged with the care of keeping them.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But what care can now delay me?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Enough in the forests my idle youth<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
On vile enemies showed his address:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
May I not, fleeing an unworthy rest,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
With more glorious blood to dye my javelins?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You had not yet reached the age I touch,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Already more of a tyrant, more of a fierce monster<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Had your arm felt the gravity;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Already insolence, happy persecutor,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You had secured the shores of the two seas;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The free traveler no longer feared outrages;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Hercules, breathing on the sound of your blows,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Already of his work rested on you.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And I, unknown son of such a glorious father,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I am even still far from my mother's footsteps!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Let my courage finally dare to take care of:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Suffer, if some monster could escape you,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
May I bring her honorable remains to your feet;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Or that a lasting memory of a beautiful death,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Eternating days so nobly ended,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Prove to the whole universe that I was your son.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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What do I see ?\u00a0What a horror in these places spread<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Make my distraught family flee before my eyes?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
If I come back so feared and so unwanted,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
O heaven, from my prison why did you shoot me?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I only had one friend: his reckless flame<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The tyrant of Epirus was going to delight the woman;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I reluctantly served his amorous designs;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But the irritated fate blinded us both.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The tyrant surprised me helpless and unarmed.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I saw Piritho\u00fcs, sad object of my tears,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Delivered by this barbarian to cruel monsters<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
That he nourished the blood of unfortunate mortals.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Himself he locked me in dark caves,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Deep and neighboring places of the shadow empire.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The gods, after six months, finally looked at me\u00a0<\/span>[3]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I knew how to deceive the eyes by which I was guarded.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Of a perfidious enemy I have purged nature;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
For his monsters himself served as food.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And when with transport I think to approach<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Of all that the gods have left me dearest;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What did I say ?\u00a0when my soul, restored to itself,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Comes to be satisfied with such a dear sight,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I have nothing for any reception but tremors;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Everything flees, everything refuses my embraces.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And myself feeling the terror that I inspire,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I would like to be still in the prisons of Epirus.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Speak.\u00a0Ph\u00e8dre complains that I am outraged:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Who betrayed me?\u00a0why am I not avenged?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Greece, to whom my arm was so often useful,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Has she granted the criminal some asylum?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You do not answer!\u00a0my son, my own son,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Is he understanding with my enemies?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Let us enter: it is too much to keep a doubt that overwhelms me.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Let us know both the crime and the culprit;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
May Ph\u00e8dre finally explain the turmoil in which I see her.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
\r\n

<\/span>SCENE VI.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\nHIPPOLYTE, THERAMENES.\r\n<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n
<\/div>\r\n
HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
\r\n \t
Where was this speech that froze me with fear?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Ph\u00e8dre, still in the grip of his extreme fury,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Does she want to blame and lose herself?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Gods !\u00a0what will the king say?\u00a0What a disastrous poison<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Love has spread all over her house!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Myself, full of a fire that his hatred condemns,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What he saw me once, and what he finds me!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Black forebodings come to frighten me.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But finally innocence has nothing to fear:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Let's go: let's look elsewhere by what happy address<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I will be able to touch my father's tenderness,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And tell him a love he may want to disturb,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But that all his power cannot shake.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>","rendered":"
<\/div>\n
\n

<\/span>FIRST SCENE.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

PHAEDRUS, OENONE.<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Ah!\u00a0that one carries elsewhere the honors which one sends to me:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Importance, can you wish you could see me?<\/span><\/dd>\n
What are you flattering my sorry mind about?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Rather, hide me: I have spoken too much.<\/span><\/dd>\n
My fury outside dared to spread:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I said what you should never hear.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Heaven!\u00a0how he listened to me!\u00a0By how many detours<\/span><\/dd>\n
The insensitive has long evaded my speeches!<\/span><\/dd>\n
How he breathed only a quick retreat!<\/span><\/dd>\n
And how much her blush has redoubled my shame!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Why did you hijack my fatal design?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Alas!\u00a0when his sword went to seek my breast,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Has he paled for me?\u00a0did he tear it from me?<\/span><\/dd>\n
My hand just has to touch it once,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I made her horrible in her inhuman eyes;<\/span><\/dd>\n
And that unfortunate iron would desecrate his hands.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
So, in your misfortunes, thinking only of complaining,<\/span><\/dd>\n
You are feeding a fire that you should put out.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Wouldn’t it be better, worthy blood of Minos,<\/span><\/dd>\n
In nobler cares, seek your rest;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Against an ungrateful who pleases to resort to flight,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Rule, and the state embrace leadership?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
I reign!\u00a0Me, put a state under my law<\/span><\/dd>\n
When my weak reason no longer reigns over me!<\/span><\/dd>\n
When I have abandoned the empire with my senses!<\/span><\/dd>\n
When under a shameful yoke I hardly breathe!<\/span><\/dd>\n
When I die!<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>Run away.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>I cannot leave him.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
You dared to banish it, you dare not avoid it?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
The time is past: he knows my insane ardor.<\/span><\/dd>\n
From austere modesty the limits have passed:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I declared my shame in the eyes of my victor,<\/span><\/dd>\n
And despite myself hope slipped into my heart.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Yourself, recalling my failing strength,<\/span><\/dd>\n
And my soul already on my wandering lips,<\/span><\/dd>\n
By your flattering advice you were able to revive me:<\/span><\/dd>\n
You gave me a glimpse that I could love her.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Alas!\u00a0of your innocent or guilty misfortunes,<\/span><\/dd>\n
What was I not capable of to save you?<\/span><\/dd>\n
But if the offense ever irritates your spirits,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Can you wonderfully forget the contempt?<\/span><\/dd>\n
With what cruel eyes his stubborn rigor<\/span><\/dd>\n
Left you at his feet little by little prostrate!<\/span><\/dd>\n
How odious his fierce pride made him!<\/span><\/dd>\n
That Ph\u00e8dre had my eyes at this moment!<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Oenone, he can leave this pride that hurts you;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Fed in the forests, it is rough.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Hippolyte, hardened by savage laws,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Hear about love for the first time:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Perhaps his surprise caused his silence;<\/span><\/dd>\n
And our complaints perhaps have too much violence.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Consider that a barbarian in its midst formed it.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Although Scythian and barbarian, she nevertheless loved.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
He has a fatal hatred for all sex.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
I will not see myself preferring a rival.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Finally all your advice is no longer in season:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Serve my fury, Oenone, and not my reason.<\/span><\/dd>\n
He opposes an inaccessible heart to love;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Let us seek to attack it some more sensitive place:<\/span><\/dd>\n
The charms of an empire seemed to touch him:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Athens attracted him, he could not hide from it;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Already of his vessels the point was turned,<\/span><\/dd>\n
And the sail floated in the winds abandoned.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Go find this ambitious young man from me,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Oenone;\u00a0make the crown shine in his eyes:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Let him put the sacred diadem on his forehead;<\/span><\/dd>\n
I only want the honor of attaching it myself.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Let us give him this power which I cannot keep.<\/span><\/dd>\n
He will instruct my son in the art of commanding;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Perhaps he will want to take the place of his father;<\/span><\/dd>\n
I put under his power both the son and the mother.<\/span><\/dd>\n
To finally flex it, try all means:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Your speeches will find more access than mine;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Press, cry, moan;\u00a0paint her dying Phaedra;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Do not blush to take a pleading voice:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I will confess everything to you;\u00a0I only hope in you.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Go: I’m waiting for your return to dispose of me.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\n

<\/span>SCENE II.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

PHAEDRUS.<\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n
O you who see the shame in which I am descended,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Implacable Venus, am I confused enough!<\/span><\/dd>\n
You could not push your cruelty further.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Your triumph is perfect;\u00a0all your features have worn.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Cruel, if you want new glory,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Attack an enemy who is more rebellious to you.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Hippolyte runs away from you;\u00a0and braving your wrath,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Never at your altars did your knees bend;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Your name seems to offend her beautiful ears:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Goddess, avenge yourself;\u00a0our causes are the same.<\/span><\/dd>\n
That he loves … But you are already retracing your steps,<\/span><\/dd>\n
\u0152none!\u00a0They hate me;\u00a0we don’t listen to you!<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\n

<\/span>SCENE III.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

PHAEDRUS, OENONE.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Thought must be stifled with vain love,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Mrs ;\u00a0recall your past virtue:<\/span><\/dd>\n
The king, who was believed dead, will appear before your eyes;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Theseus has arrived, Theseus is in these places.<\/span><\/dd>\n
The people, to see him, run and rush.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I went out by your order, and looked for Hippolyte,<\/span><\/dd>\n
When to the sky a thousand slender cries …<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
My husband is alive, Oenone;\u00a0that’s enough.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I have made the unworthy confession of a love which outrages her;<\/span><\/dd>\n
He lives: I don’t want to know more.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
What?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>I predicted it to you;\u00a0but you didn’t want:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Your tears have prevailed over my just remorse.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I was dying this morning worthy of being mourned;<\/span><\/dd>\n
I followed your advice, I die dishonored.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
You die ?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>Good heaven !\u00a0what did I do today!<\/span><\/dd>\n
My husband will appear, and his son with him!<\/span><\/dd>\n
I will see the witness of my adulterous flame<\/span><\/dd>\n
Observe with what front I dare to approach his father,<\/span><\/dd>\n
His heart heavy with sighs that he did not listen to,<\/span><\/dd>\n
The eye wet with tears by the ungrateful repulsed!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Do you think that, sensitive to the honor of Theseus,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Does he hide from him the ardor with which I am ablaze?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Will he let his father and his king betray?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Will he be able to contain the horror he has for me?<\/span><\/dd>\n
He would be silent in vain: I know my treachery,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Oenone, and am not one of those bold women<\/span><\/dd>\n
Who, tasting a quiet peace in crime,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Have known how to make a forehead that never blushes.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I know my anger, I recall them all:<\/span><\/dd>\n
It already seems to me that these walls, that these vaults<\/span><\/dd>\n
Will speak, and ready to accuse me,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Wait for my husband to disillusion him.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Let us die: from so many horrors that death delivers me.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Is it such a great misfortune to cease to live?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Death to the unfortunate does not cause fear:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I only fear the name I leave after me.<\/span><\/dd>\n
For my sad children what a dreadful heritage!<\/span><\/dd>\n
The blood of Jupiter must swell their courage;<\/span><\/dd>\n
But some just pride inspired by such beautiful blood,<\/span><\/dd>\n
A mother’s crime is a heavy burden.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I tremble that a speech, alas!\u00a0too real,<\/span><\/dd>\n
One day does not blame them for a guilty mother.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I tremble that oppressed by this odious weight<\/span><\/dd>\n
Neither of them dare look up.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
There is no doubt about it, I pity them both;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Never was fear more just than yours.<\/span><\/dd>\n
But to such insults why expose them?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Why are you going to file against yourself?<\/span><\/dd>\n
It is over: we will say that Ph\u00e8dre, too guilty,<\/span><\/dd>\n
From her betrayed husband flees the dreadful aspect.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Hippolyte is happy that at the expense of your days<\/span><\/dd>\n
You yourself, breathing out, supporting his speeches.<\/span><\/dd>\n
What can I say to your accuser?<\/span><\/dd>\n
I will be too easy to confuse in front of him:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I will see him enjoy his frightful triumph,<\/span><\/dd>\n
And tell your shame to whoever wants to hear it.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Ah!\u00a0that rather from the sky the flame devours me!<\/span><\/dd>\n
But, do not deceive me, is he still dear to you?<\/span><\/dd>\n
How do you see this daring prince?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
I see him as a frightful monster in my eyes.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Why then give it an entire victory?<\/span><\/dd>\n
You fear him: dare to accuse him first<\/span><\/dd>\n
Of the crime he can charge you with today.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Who will deny you?\u00a0Everything speaks against him:<\/span><\/dd>\n
His sword in your hands happily left,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Your present trouble, your past pain,<\/span><\/dd>\n
His father had long been warned by your cries,<\/span><\/dd>\n
And already his exile by yourself obtained.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
I, how I dare to oppress and blacken innocence!<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
My zeal needs only your silence.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Trembling like you, I feel some remorse.<\/span><\/dd>\n
You would see me more quickly face a thousand dead.<\/span><\/dd>\n
But since I am losing you without this sad remedy,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Your life is for me a price to which everything yields:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I will speak.\u00a0Theseus, embittered by my advice,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\n
Will limit his revenge to the exile of his son:<\/span><\/dd>\n
A father, when punishing, madame, is always a father;<\/span><\/dd>\n
A light torture is enough for his anger.<\/span><\/dd>\n
But, should innocent blood be shed,<\/span><\/dd>\n
What does not your threatened honor ask for?<\/span><\/dd>\n
It is too expensive a treasure to dare to commit it.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Whatever law it dictates to you, you must submit to it,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Mrs ;\u00a0and to save your fought honor,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Everything must be sacrificed, and even virtue.<\/span><\/dd>\n
We come ;\u00a0I see Theseus.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>Ah!\u00a0I see Hippolyte;<\/span><\/dd>\n
In his insolent eyes I see my written loss.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Do what you want, I surrender to you.<\/span><\/dd>\n
In the trouble I am in, I can do nothing for myself.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\n

<\/span>SCENE IV.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

THESEUS, PHAEDRUS, HIPPOLYTE, THERAMENES, OENONE.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Fortune to my\u00a0<\/span>wishes<\/span><\/span>\u00a0ceases to be opposed,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Madam, and in your arms put …<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>\u00a0Stop, Theseus,<\/span><\/dd>\n
And do not desecrate such charming transports:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I no longer deserve this sweet eagerness;<\/span><\/dd>\n
You are offended.\u00a0Jealous fortune<\/span><\/dd>\n
Did not spare your wife in your absence.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Unworthy to please you and to approach you,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I must now think only of hiding.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\n

<\/span>SCENE V.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

THESEUS, HIPPOLYTE, THERAMENE.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
What is the strange welcome we give to your father,<\/span><\/dd>\n
My son ?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>Ph\u00e8dre alone can explain this mystery.<\/span><\/dd>\n
But if my ardent wishes can move you,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Allow me, lord, not to see her again;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Suffer that the trembling Hippolyte forever<\/span><\/dd>\n
Disappear from the places where your wife lives.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Will you, my son, leave me?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>I wasn’t looking for her;<\/span><\/dd>\n
It is you who lead his steps on these shores.<\/span><\/dd>\n
You deigned, lord, on the banks of Tr\u00e9z\u00e8ne<\/span><\/dd>\n
When leaving Aricie and the queen:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I was even charged with the care of keeping them.<\/span><\/dd>\n
But what care can now delay me?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Enough in the forests my idle youth<\/span><\/dd>\n
On vile enemies showed his address:<\/span><\/dd>\n
May I not, fleeing an unworthy rest,<\/span><\/dd>\n
With more glorious blood to dye my javelins?<\/span><\/dd>\n
You had not yet reached the age I touch,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Already more of a tyrant, more of a fierce monster<\/span><\/dd>\n
Had your arm felt the gravity;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Already insolence, happy persecutor,<\/span><\/dd>\n
You had secured the shores of the two seas;<\/span><\/dd>\n
The free traveler no longer feared outrages;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Hercules, breathing on the sound of your blows,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Already of his work rested on you.<\/span><\/dd>\n
And I, unknown son of such a glorious father,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I am even still far from my mother’s footsteps!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Let my courage finally dare to take care of:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Suffer, if some monster could escape you,<\/span><\/dd>\n
May I bring her honorable remains to your feet;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Or that a lasting memory of a beautiful death,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Eternating days so nobly ended,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Prove to the whole universe that I was your son.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
What do I see ?\u00a0What a horror in these places spread<\/span><\/dd>\n
Make my distraught family flee before my eyes?<\/span><\/dd>\n
If I come back so feared and so unwanted,<\/span><\/dd>\n
O heaven, from my prison why did you shoot me?<\/span><\/dd>\n
I only had one friend: his reckless flame<\/span><\/dd>\n
The tyrant of Epirus was going to delight the woman;<\/span><\/dd>\n
I reluctantly served his amorous designs;<\/span><\/dd>\n
But the irritated fate blinded us both.<\/span><\/dd>\n
The tyrant surprised me helpless and unarmed.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I saw Piritho\u00fcs, sad object of my tears,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Delivered by this barbarian to cruel monsters<\/span><\/dd>\n
That he nourished the blood of unfortunate mortals.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Himself he locked me in dark caves,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Deep and neighboring places of the shadow empire.<\/span><\/dd>\n
The gods, after six months, finally looked at me\u00a0<\/span>[3]<\/span><\/a><\/sup>\u00a0\u00a0:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I knew how to deceive the eyes by which I was guarded.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Of a perfidious enemy I have purged nature;<\/span><\/dd>\n
For his monsters himself served as food.<\/span><\/dd>\n
And when with transport I think to approach<\/span><\/dd>\n
Of all that the gods have left me dearest;<\/span><\/dd>\n
What did I say ?\u00a0when my soul, restored to itself,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Comes to be satisfied with such a dear sight,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I have nothing for any reception but tremors;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Everything flees, everything refuses my embraces.<\/span><\/dd>\n
And myself feeling the terror that I inspire,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I would like to be still in the prisons of Epirus.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Speak.\u00a0Ph\u00e8dre complains that I am outraged:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Who betrayed me?\u00a0why am I not avenged?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Greece, to whom my arm was so often useful,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Has she granted the criminal some asylum?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\n
You do not answer!\u00a0my son, my own son,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Is he understanding with my enemies?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Let us enter: it is too much to keep a doubt that overwhelms me.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Let us know both the crime and the culprit;<\/span><\/dd>\n
May Ph\u00e8dre finally explain the turmoil in which I see her.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\n

<\/span>SCENE VI.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

HIPPOLYTE, THERAMENES.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Where was this speech that froze me with fear?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Ph\u00e8dre, still in the grip of his extreme fury,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Does she want to blame and lose herself?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Gods !\u00a0what will the king say?\u00a0What a disastrous poison<\/span><\/dd>\n
Love has spread all over her house!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Myself, full of a fire that his hatred condemns,<\/span><\/dd>\n
What he saw me once, and what he finds me!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Black forebodings come to frighten me.<\/span><\/dd>\n
But finally innocence has nothing to fear:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Let’s go: let’s look elsewhere by what happy address<\/span><\/dd>\n
I will be able to touch my father’s tenderness,<\/span><\/dd>\n
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