Medea
Euripides
Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.
- Till when? what must thou do first, what country visit?
- Till I to my native home return.
- What object hast thou in sailing to this land?
- O’er Troezen’s realm is Pittheus king.
- Pelops’ son, a man devout they say.
- To him I fain would impart the oracle of the god.
- The man is shrewd and versed in such-like lore.
- Aye, and to me the dearest of all my warrior friends.
- Good luck to thee! success to all thy wishes!
- But why that downcast eye, that wasted cheek?
- O Aegeus, my husband has proved a monster of iniquity.
- What meanest thou? explain to me clearly the cause of thy despondency.
- Jason is wronging me though I have given him no cause.
- What hath he done? tell me more clearly.
- He is taking another wife to succeed me as mistress of his house.
- Can he have brought himself to such a dastard deed?
- Be assured thereof; I, whom he loved of yore, am in dishonour now.
- Hath he found a new love? or does he loathe thy bed?
- Much in love is he! A traitor to his friend is he become.
- Enough! if he is a villain as thou sayest.