{"id":49,"date":"2020-07-23T15:46:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T19:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/phedre\/?post_type=chapter&p=49"},"modified":"2020-07-23T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T20:38:26","slug":"act-four","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/chapter\/act-four\/","title":{"raw":"Act Four","rendered":"Act Four"},"content":{"raw":"
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<\/span>FIRST SCENE.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\nTHESEUS, OENONE.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Ah!\u00a0what do I hear?\u00a0A traitor, a reckless<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Prepared this outrage to his father's honor!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
With what rigor, fate, you pursue me!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I don't know where I'm going, I don't know where I am.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
O tenderness!\u00a0O goodness too badly rewarded!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Bold project!\u00a0hateful thought!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
To achieve the goal of his dark loves,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The insolent force borrowed help!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I recognized the iron, the instrument of his rage,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
This iron with which I armed it for a nobler use.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
All the ties of blood could not hold him back!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And Ph\u00e8dre deferred having him punished!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Ph\u00e8dre's silence spared the culprit!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\r\n
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Ph\u00e8dre rather spared a deplorable father:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Ashamed of the design of a furious lover,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And the arson he caught in his eyes,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Phaedrus was dying, lord, and his murderous hand<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
She put out the innocent light with her eyes.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I saw raise my arm, I ran to save her.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I alone in your love I knew how to preserve it.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And complaining both of his trouble and your alarms,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I served, in spite of myself, as an interpreter to his tears.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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The treacherous!\u00a0he couldn't help but turn pale:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
As I approached me, I saw him quiver.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I was astonished at his lack of joy;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Her cold embraces froze my tenderness.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But this guilty love by which he is devoured<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
In Athens had he already declared himself?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Lord, remember the queen's complaints:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
A criminal love caused all his hatred.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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And this fire in Tr\u00e9z\u00e8ne has therefore started again?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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I told you, lord, everything that happened.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
It is too much to leave the queen to her mortal pain,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Suffer that I leave you and line up with her.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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<\/span>SCENE II.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\nTHESEUS, HIPPOLYTE.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Ah!\u00a0here it is.\u00a0Great gods!\u00a0to this noble bearing<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Which eye would not be deceived like mine?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Must it be that on the forehead of an adulterous layman<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Shine with virtue the sacred character!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And shouldn't we at certain signs<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Recognize the hearts of treacherous humans!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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May I ask you what a fatal cloud,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Lord, could you trouble your august face?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Don't you dare to confide this secret to my faith?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Perfidious!\u00a0do you dare to show yourself in front of me?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Monster, whom thunder has spared for too long,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The robbers whose land I have purged remain unclean,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
After the transport of a love full of horror<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Your fury carried your fury to your father's bed,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You dare present me with an enemy head!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You appear in places full of your infamy!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And don't go looking, under an unknown sky,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
From countries where my name has not reached?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Flee, traitor.\u00a0Do not come here to defy my hatred,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And tempt a wrath that I barely remember:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
It's enough for me eternal reproach<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
To have been able to bring to light such a criminal son,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Without your death still, shameful in my memory,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
From my noble works come to defile the glory.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Flee: and if you only want a sudden punishment<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Add to the scoundrels punished by this hand,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Beware that ever the star that lights us up<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Do not see yourself in these places putting a reckless footing.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Flee, I say;\u00a0and without rushing back your steps,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Your horrible appearance purges all my states.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And you, Neptune, and you, so once my courage<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Infamous assassins cleaned your shore,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Remember that, at the price of my happy efforts,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You promised to grant my first wish.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
In the long rigors of a cruel prison<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I did not implore your immortal power;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Miserly with the help I expect from your care,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
My wishes have reserved for you for greater needs:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I implore you today.\u00a0Avenge an unhappy father;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I abandon this traitor to all your anger;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Stifles his brazen desires in his blood:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Theseus in your fury will know your kindness.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Of a criminal love Ph\u00e8dre accuses Hippolyte!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Such excess of horror makes my soul dumbfounded;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
So many unforeseen blows overwhelm me at the same time,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Let them take away my speech, and stifle my voice.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Traitor, you claimed that in cowardly silence<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Ph\u00e8dre would bury your brutal insolence:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
It was necessary, while fleeing, not to give up<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The iron which in his hands helps to condemn you;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Or rather it was necessary, filling your perfidy,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
All of a sudden, to steal his speech and his life.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Of a lie so dark, justly irritated,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I should make the truth speak here,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Lord;\u00a0but I am removing a secret that touches you.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Approve the respect that closes my mouth,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And without wanting to increase your troubles yourself,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Examine my life, and consider who I am.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Some crimes always precede great crimes;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Whoever was able to cross the legitimate boundaries<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Can finally violate the most sacred rights:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Like virtue, crime has its degrees;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And we never saw the timid innocence<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Suddenly switch to the extreme license.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
One day alone does not make a virtuous mortal<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
A perfidious assassin, an incestuous coward.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Raised in the womb of a chaste heroine,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I have not denied the origin of his blood.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Pitthea, considered wise among all humans,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Deigned to instruct me again when leaving his hands.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I don't want to paint myself too much;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But if some virtue has fallen into my hands,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Lord, I mostly believe I broke<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The hatred of crimes that people dare to impute to me.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
This is where Hippolytus is known in Greece.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I pushed virtue to the point of harshness:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
We know the inflexible rigor of my sorrows.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The day is not purer than the bottom of my heart.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And we want Hippolytus, in love with a profane fire ...<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Yes, it's that same pride, coward!\u00a0who condemns you.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I see the odious principle of your coldness:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Ph\u00e8dre alone charmed your shameless eyes;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And for any other object your indifferent soul<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Disdained to burn with an innocent flame.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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No, my father, this heart is too much for you to hide,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Has not a chaste love scorned to burn.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I confess my real offense to your feet:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I love, I love, it is true, in spite of your defense.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Aricia to his laws keeps my vows enslaved;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Pallante's daughter defeated your son:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I love it ;\u00a0and my soul, at your rebellious orders,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Can neither sigh nor burn except for her.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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You love it !\u00a0sky!\u00a0But no, the artifice is rude:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You pretend yourself a criminal to justify yourself.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Lord, for six months I have avoided him and I have loved him;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I came, trembling, to tell it to yourself.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What!\u00a0nothing can get you out of your mistake!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
By what dreadful oath should you be reassured?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
That the earth, the sky, that all of nature ...<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Always scoundrels resort to perjury.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Cease, cease, and spare me an unwelcome speech,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
If your false virtue has no other help.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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It seems to you false and full of artifice:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Ph\u00e8dre in the depths of his heart does me more justice.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Ah, how your impudence excites my wrath!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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What time in my exile, what place do you prescribe?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Were you beyond the pillars of Alcide,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I would still believe myself too close to a perfidious man.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Charged with the awful crime you suspect me of,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What friends will pity me when you abandon me?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Go find friends whose disastrous esteem<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Honor adultery, applaud incest;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Traitors, ingrates, without honor and without law,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Worthy to protect a villain like you.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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You always talk to me about incest and adultery:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I am silent.\u00a0However Phaedrus comes out of a mother,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Phaedrus is of a blood, lord, you know it too well,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Of all these horrors more filled than mine.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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What!\u00a0your rage in my eyes loses all restraint?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
For the last time, get out of my sight;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Come out, traitor: don't wait for a furious father<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
With reproach, tear you up from these places.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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<\/span>SCENE III.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\nTHESEUS.<\/strong>\r\n
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Miserable, you run to your infallible doom!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Neptune, by the river to the very gods terrible,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Gave me his word, and go do it.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
A vengeful god follows you, you cannot avoid him.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I loved you ;\u00a0and I feel that, despite your offense,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
My bowels for you are troubled in advance.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But to condemn you you have committed me too much:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Never was a father, in fact, more outraged?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Righteous gods who see the pain that overwhelms me,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Have I been able to bring to light such a guilty child!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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<\/span>SCENE IV.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\nTHESEUS, PH\u00c8DRE.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Lord, I come to you, full of just dread;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Your dreadful voice has reached me:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I fear a swift effect followed the threat.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
If there is still time, spare your race,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Respect your blood;\u00a0I dare to ask you:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Save me from the horror of hearing him scream;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Do not prepare for me eternal pain<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
For having spread it in the paternal hand.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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No, madame, my hand has not soaked in my blood;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But the ingrate, however, has not escaped me:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
An immortal hand of her doom is loaded,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Neptune owes it to me;\u00a0and you will be avenged.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\r\n
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Neptune owes it to you!\u00a0What!\u00a0your angry wishes ...<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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What!\u00a0are you already worried that they will be listened to?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Rather, join my legitimate wishes:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
In all their darkness, trace to me his crimes,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Warm up my transports too slow, too restrained.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
All his crimes are not yet known to you:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
His fury against you is poured out in insults;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Your mouth, he said, is full of deceptions;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
He maintains that Aricie has his heart, has his faith,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Let him love her.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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<\/span>What, lord!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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<\/span>He said it in front of me:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But I know how to reject a frivolous artifice.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Let us hope for speedy justice from Neptune:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I myself still go to the foot of its altars<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Urge him to fulfill his immortal oaths.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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<\/span>SCENE V.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\nPHAEDRUS.<\/strong>\r\n
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He is leaving.\u00a0What news hit my ear!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What a badly stifled fire in my heart is awakening!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What love at first sight, O heaven!\u00a0and what a disastrous advice!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I flew entirely to the aid of his son;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And tearing me from the arms of a terrified Oenone,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I gave in to the remorse of which I was tormented.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Who even knows where this repentance was going to take me?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Perhaps to accuse myself I could have consented;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Maybe if my voice hadn't been cut off,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The awful truth would have escaped me.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Hippolyte is sensitive, and feels nothing for me!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Aricie has his heart!\u00a0Aricie has his faith!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Ah!\u00a0gods !\u00a0When to my wishes the inexorable ungrateful<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Armed himself with an eye so proud, with a forehead so formidable,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I thought that with love his heart always closed<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Was against all my cock also armed:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Another, however, weakened its audacity;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Before his cruel eyes another found favor.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Perhaps he has an easy heart to be moved:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I am the only object he cannot suffer.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And I would take care of defending it!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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<\/span>SCENE VI.<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\r\n<\/div>\r\nPHAEDRUS, OENONE.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n \r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Dear Oenone, do you know what I have just learned?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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No ;\u00a0but I come trembling, not to lie to you<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I have turned pale at the design which brought you out;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I feared a fatal fury to yourself.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Oenone, who would have believed it?\u00a0I had a rival!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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How? 'Or' What !<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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<\/span>Hippolyte loves;\u00a0and I cannot doubt it.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
This fierce enemy that could not be tamed,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What offended respect, what annoyed complaint,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
This tiger, that I never approached without fear,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Subdued, tamed, recognizes a winner:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Aricie has found the way to her heart.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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Aricie?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
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PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
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<\/span>Ah!\u00a0pain not yet experienced!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What new torment I have reserved for myself!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
All that I suffered, my fears, my transports,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The fury of my fires, the horror of my remorse,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And with a cruel refusal the unbearable insult,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Was only a faint test of the torment I endured.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
They love each other !\u00a0By what charm have they deceived my eyes?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
How did they see each other?\u00a0since when ?\u00a0in which places?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You knew it: why did you let me seduce?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Could you not instruct me with their furtive ardor?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Have we often seen them talking to each other, looking for each other?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
In the depths of the forests were they going to hide?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Alas!\u00a0they saw each other with full license:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The sky of their sighs approved of innocence;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
They followed their amorous inclination without remorse;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Every day rose clear and serene for them!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And I, sad scum of all nature,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I hid myself in daylight, I fled from the light;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Death is the only god I dared to implore.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I waited for the moment when I was going to breathe out;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Feeding me gall, watered tears,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Still, in my misfortune observed too closely,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I dared not drown myself at leisure in my tears.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I tasted this fatal pleasure with trembling;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And under a serene brow disguising my alarms,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I often had to deprive me of my tears.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
\r\n \t
What fruit will they receive from their vain love?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
They won't see each other anymore.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
\r\n \t
<\/span>They will always love each other!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
As I speak, ah, deadly thought!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
They brave the fury of a foolish lover!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Despite this same exile that will drive them away,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
They take a thousand oaths not to leave each other ...<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
No, I cannot endure a happiness which outrages me;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Oenone, have pity on my jealous rage.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
We must lose Aricie;\u00a0it takes my husband<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Against hateful blood to awaken wrath:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Let him not limit himself to light sentences;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The crime of the sister passes that of the brothers.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
In my jealous transports I want to implore him.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What do I do ?\u00a0where does my reason go astray?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Me jealous!\u00a0and Theseus is the one I implore!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
My husband is alive, and I am still burning!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
For who ?\u00a0what is the heart where my vows claim?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Every word on my forehead makes my hair stand on end.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
My crimes have now filled the measure:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I breathe incest and fraud at the same time;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
My homicide hands, quick to avenge myself,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Into the innocent blood burn to plunge.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Wretched !\u00a0and I saw !\u00a0and I support the view<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
From that sacred Sun from which I came!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
My ancestor is the father and master of the gods;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The sky, the whole universe is full of my ancestors:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Where to hide?\u00a0Let\u2019s flee into the hellish night.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
But what am I saying?\u00a0my father holds the fatal urn there;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Fate, they say, put her in his severe hands:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Minos judges all pale humans in hell.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Ah!\u00a0how his terrified shadow will tremble,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
When he sees his daughter presented to him,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Forced to admit so many various crimes,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And perhaps unknown crimes in the underworld!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What will you say, father, to this horrible spectacle?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I think I see the terrible urn fall from your hand;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I think I see you looking for a new torture,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You yourself become the executioner of your blood ...<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Forgive: a cruel god has lost your family;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Recognize his revenge on the fury of your daughter.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Alas!\u00a0of the terrible crime whose shame follows me<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Never has my sad heart gathered the fruit:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Until the last continued sigh of misfortunes,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I restore a painful life in torments.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
\r\n \t
Hey!\u00a0repel, madame, an unjust terror!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Look differently at an excusable mistake.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You like ;\u00a0you cannot conquer your destiny:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
By a fatal charm you were carried away.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
So is this an incredible wonder among us?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Has love only triumphed over you yet?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Weakness to humans is all too natural:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Mortal, suffer the fate of a mortal.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
You complain about a long imposed yoke:<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The very gods, the inhabitants of Olympian gods,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Who terrify crimes with such a terrible noise,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Sometimes burned with illegitimate fires.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\r\n
\r\n \t
What do I hear!\u00a0what advice do they dare give me?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
So until the end you want to poison me,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Unhappy!\u00a0this is how you lost me;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
On the day that I was fleeing it was you who gave me back.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Your prayers made me forget my duty;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I was avoiding Hippolyte, and you showed it to me.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What were you doing?\u00a0why your impious mouth<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Did she, by accusing him, dare to blacken her life?<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
He may die of it, and of a foolish father<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
The sacrilege may have been granted.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
I don't listen to you anymore.\u00a0Go away, execrable monster;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Go, leave me the care of my deplorable fate.<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
May the just heaven worthily pay you!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And may your torment forever scare<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
All those who, like you, by cowardly addresses,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Unhappy princes feed weaknesses,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Lead them to the inclination to which their heart is inclined,<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And their crime dares to level the way!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
Despicable flatterers, the most fatal present<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
What can heavenly wrath do to kings!<\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
<\/div>\r\n
\u0152NONE\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>, alone.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\r\n
\r\n \t
Oh gods!\u00a0to serve her I have done everything, left everything;<\/span><\/dd>\r\n \t
And I get this award!\u00a0I have deserved it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n
\r\n \t
In what raptures, to your fate bound,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\r\n<\/dl>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"
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\n

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

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

 <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Ah!\u00a0what do I hear?\u00a0A traitor, a reckless<\/span><\/dd>\n
Prepared this outrage to his father’s honor!<\/span><\/dd>\n
With what rigor, fate, you pursue me!<\/span><\/dd>\n
I don’t know where I’m going, I don’t know where I am.<\/span><\/dd>\n
O tenderness!\u00a0O goodness too badly rewarded!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Bold project!\u00a0hateful thought!<\/span><\/dd>\n
To achieve the goal of his dark loves,<\/span><\/dd>\n
The insolent force borrowed help!<\/span><\/dd>\n
I recognized the iron, the instrument of his rage,<\/span><\/dd>\n
This iron with which I armed it for a nobler use.<\/span><\/dd>\n
All the ties of blood could not hold him back!<\/span><\/dd>\n
And Ph\u00e8dre deferred having him punished!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Ph\u00e8dre’s silence spared the culprit!<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
Ph\u00e8dre rather spared a deplorable father:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Ashamed of the design of a furious lover,<\/span><\/dd>\n
And the arson he caught in his eyes,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Phaedrus was dying, lord, and his murderous hand<\/span><\/dd>\n
She put out the innocent light with her eyes.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I saw raise my arm, I ran to save her.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I alone in your love I knew how to preserve it.<\/span><\/dd>\n
And complaining both of his trouble and your alarms,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I served, in spite of myself, as an interpreter to his tears.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
The treacherous!\u00a0he couldn’t help but turn pale:<\/span><\/dd>\n
As I approached me, I saw him quiver.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I was astonished at his lack of joy;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Her cold embraces froze my tenderness.<\/span><\/dd>\n
But this guilty love by which he is devoured<\/span><\/dd>\n
In Athens had he already declared himself?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Lord, remember the queen’s complaints:<\/span><\/dd>\n
A criminal love caused all his hatred.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
And this fire in Tr\u00e9z\u00e8ne has therefore started again?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
I told you, lord, everything that happened.<\/span><\/dd>\n
It is too much to leave the queen to her mortal pain,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Suffer that I leave you and line up with her.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\n

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

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

 <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Ah!\u00a0here it is.\u00a0Great gods!\u00a0to this noble bearing<\/span><\/dd>\n
Which eye would not be deceived like mine?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Must it be that on the forehead of an adulterous layman<\/span><\/dd>\n
Shine with virtue the sacred character!<\/span><\/dd>\n
And shouldn’t we at certain signs<\/span><\/dd>\n
Recognize the hearts of treacherous humans!<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
May I ask you what a fatal cloud,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Lord, could you trouble your august face?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Don’t you dare to confide this secret to my faith?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Perfidious!\u00a0do you dare to show yourself in front of me?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Monster, whom thunder has spared for too long,<\/span><\/dd>\n
The robbers whose land I have purged remain unclean,<\/span><\/dd>\n
After the transport of a love full of horror<\/span><\/dd>\n
Your fury carried your fury to your father’s bed,<\/span><\/dd>\n
You dare present me with an enemy head!<\/span><\/dd>\n
You appear in places full of your infamy!<\/span><\/dd>\n
And don’t go looking, under an unknown sky,<\/span><\/dd>\n
From countries where my name has not reached?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Flee, traitor.\u00a0Do not come here to defy my hatred,<\/span><\/dd>\n
And tempt a wrath that I barely remember:<\/span><\/dd>\n
It’s enough for me eternal reproach<\/span><\/dd>\n
To have been able to bring to light such a criminal son,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Without your death still, shameful in my memory,<\/span><\/dd>\n
From my noble works come to defile the glory.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Flee: and if you only want a sudden punishment<\/span><\/dd>\n
Add to the scoundrels punished by this hand,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\n
Beware that ever the star that lights us up<\/span><\/dd>\n
Do not see yourself in these places putting a reckless footing.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Flee, I say;\u00a0and without rushing back your steps,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Your horrible appearance purges all my states.<\/span><\/dd>\n
And you, Neptune, and you, so once my courage<\/span><\/dd>\n
Infamous assassins cleaned your shore,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Remember that, at the price of my happy efforts,<\/span><\/dd>\n
You promised to grant my first wish.<\/span><\/dd>\n
In the long rigors of a cruel prison<\/span><\/dd>\n
I did not implore your immortal power;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Miserly with the help I expect from your care,<\/span><\/dd>\n
My wishes have reserved for you for greater needs:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I implore you today.\u00a0Avenge an unhappy father;<\/span><\/dd>\n
I abandon this traitor to all your anger;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Stifles his brazen desires in his blood:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Theseus in your fury will know your kindness.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Of a criminal love Ph\u00e8dre accuses Hippolyte!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Such excess of horror makes my soul dumbfounded;<\/span><\/dd>\n
So many unforeseen blows overwhelm me at the same time,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Let them take away my speech, and stifle my voice.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Traitor, you claimed that in cowardly silence<\/span><\/dd>\n
Ph\u00e8dre would bury your brutal insolence:<\/span><\/dd>\n
It was necessary, while fleeing, not to give up<\/span><\/dd>\n
The iron which in his hands helps to condemn you;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Or rather it was necessary, filling your perfidy,<\/span><\/dd>\n
All of a sudden, to steal his speech and his life.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Of a lie so dark, justly irritated,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I should make the truth speak here,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Lord;\u00a0but I am removing a secret that touches you.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Approve the respect that closes my mouth,<\/span><\/dd>\n
And without wanting to increase your troubles yourself,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Examine my life, and consider who I am.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Some crimes always precede great crimes;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Whoever was able to cross the legitimate boundaries<\/span><\/dd>\n
Can finally violate the most sacred rights:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Like virtue, crime has its degrees;<\/span><\/dd>\n
And we never saw the timid innocence<\/span><\/dd>\n
Suddenly switch to the extreme license.<\/span><\/dd>\n
One day alone does not make a virtuous mortal<\/span><\/dd>\n
A perfidious assassin, an incestuous coward.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Raised in the womb of a chaste heroine,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I have not denied the origin of his blood.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Pitthea, considered wise among all humans,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Deigned to instruct me again when leaving his hands.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I don’t want to paint myself too much;<\/span><\/dd>\n
But if some virtue has fallen into my hands,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Lord, I mostly believe I broke<\/span><\/dd>\n
The hatred of crimes that people dare to impute to me.<\/span><\/dd>\n
This is where Hippolytus is known in Greece.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I pushed virtue to the point of harshness:<\/span><\/dd>\n
We know the inflexible rigor of my sorrows.<\/span><\/dd>\n
The day is not purer than the bottom of my heart.<\/span><\/dd>\n
And we want Hippolytus, in love with a profane fire …<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Yes, it’s that same pride, coward!\u00a0who condemns you.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I see the odious principle of your coldness:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Ph\u00e8dre alone charmed your shameless eyes;<\/span><\/dd>\n
And for any other object your indifferent soul<\/span><\/dd>\n
Disdained to burn with an innocent flame.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
No, my father, this heart is too much for you to hide,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Has not a chaste love scorned to burn.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I confess my real offense to your feet:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I love, I love, it is true, in spite of your defense.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Aricia to his laws keeps my vows enslaved;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Pallante’s daughter defeated your son:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I love it ;\u00a0and my soul, at your rebellious orders,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Can neither sigh nor burn except for her.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
You love it !\u00a0sky!\u00a0But no, the artifice is rude:<\/span><\/dd>\n
You pretend yourself a criminal to justify yourself.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Lord, for six months I have avoided him and I have loved him;<\/span><\/dd>\n
I came, trembling, to tell it to yourself.<\/span><\/dd>\n
What!\u00a0nothing can get you out of your mistake!<\/span><\/dd>\n
By what dreadful oath should you be reassured?<\/span><\/dd>\n
That the earth, the sky, that all of nature …<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Always scoundrels resort to perjury.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Cease, cease, and spare me an unwelcome speech,<\/span><\/dd>\n
If your false virtue has no other help.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
It seems to you false and full of artifice:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Ph\u00e8dre in the depths of his heart does me more justice.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Ah, how your impudence excites my wrath!<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
What time in my exile, what place do you prescribe?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Were you beyond the pillars of Alcide,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I would still believe myself too close to a perfidious man.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Charged with the awful crime you suspect me of,<\/span><\/dd>\n
What friends will pity me when you abandon me?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Go find friends whose disastrous esteem<\/span><\/dd>\n
Honor adultery, applaud incest;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Traitors, ingrates, without honor and without law,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Worthy to protect a villain like you.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
HIPPOLYTE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
You always talk to me about incest and adultery:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I am silent.\u00a0However Phaedrus comes out of a mother,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Phaedrus is of a blood, lord, you know it too well,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Of all these horrors more filled than mine.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
What!\u00a0your rage in my eyes loses all restraint?<\/span><\/dd>\n
For the last time, get out of my sight;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Come out, traitor: don’t wait for a furious father<\/span><\/dd>\n
With reproach, tear you up from these places.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\n

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

THESEUS.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n
Miserable, you run to your infallible doom!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Neptune, by the river to the very gods terrible,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Gave me his word, and go do it.<\/span><\/dd>\n
A vengeful god follows you, you cannot avoid him.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I loved you ;\u00a0and I feel that, despite your offense,<\/span><\/dd>\n
My bowels for you are troubled in advance.<\/span><\/dd>\n
But to condemn you you have committed me too much:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Never was a father, in fact, more outraged?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Righteous gods who see the pain that overwhelms me,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Have I been able to bring to light such a guilty child!<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\n

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

THESEUS, PH\u00c8DRE.<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Lord, I come to you, full of just dread;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Your dreadful voice has reached me:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I fear a swift effect followed the threat.<\/span><\/dd>\n
If there is still time, spare your race,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Respect your blood;\u00a0I dare to ask you:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Save me from the horror of hearing him scream;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Do not prepare for me eternal pain<\/span><\/dd>\n
For having spread it in the paternal hand.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
No, madame, my hand has not soaked in my blood;<\/span><\/dd>\n
But the ingrate, however, has not escaped me:<\/span><\/dd>\n
An immortal hand of her doom is loaded,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Neptune owes it to me;\u00a0and you will be avenged.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
\n
Neptune owes it to you!\u00a0What!\u00a0your angry wishes …<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
What!\u00a0are you already worried that they will be listened to?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Rather, join my legitimate wishes:<\/span><\/dd>\n
In all their darkness, trace to me his crimes,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Warm up my transports too slow, too restrained.<\/span><\/dd>\n
All his crimes are not yet known to you:<\/span><\/dd>\n
His fury against you is poured out in insults;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Your mouth, he said, is full of deceptions;<\/span><\/dd>\n
He maintains that Aricie has his heart, has his faith,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Let him love her.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>What, lord!<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
THESEUS.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>He said it in front of me:<\/span><\/dd>\n
But I know how to reject a frivolous artifice.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Let us hope for speedy justice from Neptune:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I myself still go to the foot of its altars<\/span><\/dd>\n
Urge him to fulfill his immortal oaths.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\n

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

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

\n
He is leaving.\u00a0What news hit my ear!<\/span><\/dd>\n
What a badly stifled fire in my heart is awakening!<\/span><\/dd>\n
What love at first sight, O heaven!\u00a0and what a disastrous advice!<\/span><\/dd>\n
I flew entirely to the aid of his son;<\/span><\/dd>\n
And tearing me from the arms of a terrified Oenone,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I gave in to the remorse of which I was tormented.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Who even knows where this repentance was going to take me?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Perhaps to accuse myself I could have consented;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Maybe if my voice hadn’t been cut off,<\/span><\/dd>\n
The awful truth would have escaped me.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Hippolyte is sensitive, and feels nothing for me!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Aricie has his heart!\u00a0Aricie has his faith!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Ah!\u00a0gods !\u00a0When to my wishes the inexorable ungrateful<\/span><\/dd>\n
Armed himself with an eye so proud, with a forehead so formidable,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I thought that with love his heart always closed<\/span><\/dd>\n
Was against all my cock also armed:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Another, however, weakened its audacity;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Before his cruel eyes another found favor.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Perhaps he has an easy heart to be moved:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I am the only object he cannot suffer.<\/span><\/dd>\n
And I would take care of defending it!<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\n

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

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

 <\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Dear Oenone, do you know what I have just learned?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
No ;\u00a0but I come trembling, not to lie to you<\/span><\/dd>\n
I have turned pale at the design which brought you out;<\/span><\/dd>\n
I feared a fatal fury to yourself.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Oenone, who would have believed it?\u00a0I had a rival!<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
How? ‘Or’ What !<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>Hippolyte loves;\u00a0and I cannot doubt it.<\/span><\/dd>\n
This fierce enemy that could not be tamed,<\/span><\/dd>\n
What offended respect, what annoyed complaint,<\/span><\/dd>\n
This tiger, that I never approached without fear,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Subdued, tamed, recognizes a winner:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Aricie has found the way to her heart.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Aricie?<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>Ah!\u00a0pain not yet experienced!<\/span><\/dd>\n
What new torment I have reserved for myself!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\n
All that I suffered, my fears, my transports,<\/span><\/dd>\n
The fury of my fires, the horror of my remorse,<\/span><\/dd>\n
And with a cruel refusal the unbearable insult,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Was only a faint test of the torment I endured.<\/span><\/dd>\n
They love each other !\u00a0By what charm have they deceived my eyes?<\/span><\/dd>\n
How did they see each other?\u00a0since when ?\u00a0in which places?<\/span><\/dd>\n
You knew it: why did you let me seduce?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Could you not instruct me with their furtive ardor?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Have we often seen them talking to each other, looking for each other?<\/span><\/dd>\n
In the depths of the forests were they going to hide?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Alas!\u00a0they saw each other with full license:<\/span><\/dd>\n
The sky of their sighs approved of innocence;<\/span><\/dd>\n
They followed their amorous inclination without remorse;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Every day rose clear and serene for them!<\/span><\/dd>\n
And I, sad scum of all nature,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I hid myself in daylight, I fled from the light;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Death is the only god I dared to implore.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I waited for the moment when I was going to breathe out;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Feeding me gall, watered tears,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Still, in my misfortune observed too closely,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I dared not drown myself at leisure in my tears.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I tasted this fatal pleasure with trembling;<\/span><\/dd>\n
And under a serene brow disguising my alarms,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I often had to deprive me of my tears.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
What fruit will they receive from their vain love?<\/span><\/dd>\n
They won’t see each other anymore.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
<\/span>They will always love each other!<\/span><\/dd>\n
As I speak, ah, deadly thought!<\/span><\/dd>\n
They brave the fury of a foolish lover!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Despite this same exile that will drive them away,<\/span><\/dd>\n
They take a thousand oaths not to leave each other …<\/span><\/dd>\n
No, I cannot endure a happiness which outrages me;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Oenone, have pity on my jealous rage.<\/span><\/dd>\n
We must lose Aricie;\u00a0it takes my husband<\/span><\/dd>\n
Against hateful blood to awaken wrath:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Let him not limit himself to light sentences;<\/span><\/dd>\n
The crime of the sister passes that of the brothers.<\/span><\/dd>\n
In my jealous transports I want to implore him.<\/span><\/dd>\n
What do I do ?\u00a0where does my reason go astray?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Me jealous!\u00a0and Theseus is the one I implore!<\/span><\/dd>\n
My husband is alive, and I am still burning!<\/span><\/dd>\n
For who ?\u00a0what is the heart where my vows claim?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Every word on my forehead makes my hair stand on end.<\/span><\/dd>\n
My crimes have now filled the measure:<\/span><\/dd>\n
I breathe incest and fraud at the same time;<\/span><\/dd>\n
My homicide hands, quick to avenge myself,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Into the innocent blood burn to plunge.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Wretched !\u00a0and I saw !\u00a0and I support the view<\/span><\/dd>\n
From that sacred Sun from which I came!<\/span><\/dd>\n
My ancestor is the father and master of the gods;<\/span><\/dd>\n
The sky, the whole universe is full of my ancestors:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Where to hide?\u00a0Let\u2019s flee into the hellish night.<\/span><\/dd>\n
But what am I saying?\u00a0my father holds the fatal urn there;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Fate, they say, put her in his severe hands:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Minos judges all pale humans in hell.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Ah!\u00a0how his terrified shadow will tremble,<\/span><\/dd>\n
When he sees his daughter presented to him,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Forced to admit so many various crimes,<\/span><\/dd>\n
And perhaps unknown crimes in the underworld!<\/span><\/dd>\n
What will you say, father, to this horrible spectacle?<\/span><\/dd>\n
I think I see the terrible urn fall from your hand;<\/span><\/dd>\n
I think I see you looking for a new torture,<\/span><\/dd>\n
You yourself become the executioner of your blood …<\/span><\/dd>\n
Forgive: a cruel god has lost your family;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Recognize his revenge on the fury of your daughter.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Alas!\u00a0of the terrible crime whose shame follows me<\/span><\/dd>\n
Never has my sad heart gathered the fruit:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Until the last continued sigh of misfortunes,<\/span><\/dd>\n
I restore a painful life in torments.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
Hey!\u00a0repel, madame, an unjust terror!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Look differently at an excusable mistake.<\/span><\/dd>\n
You like ;\u00a0you cannot conquer your destiny:<\/span><\/dd>\n
By a fatal charm you were carried away.<\/span><\/dd>\n
So is this an incredible wonder among us?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Has love only triumphed over you yet?<\/span><\/dd>\n
Weakness to humans is all too natural:<\/span><\/dd>\n
Mortal, suffer the fate of a mortal.<\/span><\/dd>\n
You complain about a long imposed yoke:<\/span><\/dd>\n
The very gods, the inhabitants of Olympian gods,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Who terrify crimes with such a terrible noise,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Sometimes burned with illegitimate fires.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
PHAEDRA.<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
\n
What do I hear!\u00a0what advice do they dare give me?<\/span><\/dd>\n
So until the end you want to poison me,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Unhappy!\u00a0this is how you lost me;<\/span><\/dd>\n
On the day that I was fleeing it was you who gave me back.<\/span><\/dd>\n
Your prayers made me forget my duty;<\/span><\/dd>\n
I was avoiding Hippolyte, and you showed it to me.<\/span><\/dd>\n
What were you doing?\u00a0why your impious mouth<\/span><\/dd>\n
Did she, by accusing him, dare to blacken her life?<\/span><\/dd>\n
He may die of it, and of a foolish father<\/span><\/dd>\n
The sacrilege may have been granted.<\/span><\/dd>\n
I don’t listen to you anymore.\u00a0Go away, execrable monster;<\/span><\/dd>\n
Go, leave me the care of my deplorable fate.<\/span><\/dd>\n
May the just heaven worthily pay you!<\/span><\/dd>\n
And may your torment forever scare<\/span><\/dd>\n
All those who, like you, by cowardly addresses,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Unhappy princes feed weaknesses,<\/span><\/dd>\n
Lead them to the inclination to which their heart is inclined,<\/span><\/dd>\n
And their crime dares to level the way!<\/span><\/dd>\n
Despicable flatterers, the most fatal present<\/span><\/dd>\n
What can heavenly wrath do to kings!<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
<\/div>\n
\u0152NONE\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>, alone.<\/span><\/i><\/div>\n
\n
Oh gods!\u00a0to serve her I have done everything, left everything;<\/span><\/dd>\n
And I get this award!\u00a0I have deserved it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n
\n
In what raptures, to your fate bound,<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-49","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/49\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/49\/revisions\/53"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/49\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/phedre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}