Phaedra: a Classic Play in Three Acts

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Phaedra: a Classic Play in Three Acts
Jean Racine
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[^Takes her handJ] Oh why art thou so beautiful?
Arieia. Prince, what would'st thou — HippolyivM. 'Tis said, and thou shalt hear me; this hour hath conquered my allegiance. 'Tis known to thee I have not smiled of late, nor shared those sports which youth delights in, and in whose exercise I o'erdid all competitors. My coursers, too, unused to long neglect, have grown morose and restless aa if they mourned my absence. My favorite steed hath ceased to know my voice ; my bow unstrung, neglected ha
...ngs, while in my heart an arrow lies! — 'tis thou didst place it there! Vainly I've struggled 'twixt my pride and thee. I've fled thy pre* sence, but in the forest's depths — ^beyond the sea — ^in night's dark gloom — ^in day's bright light — thy charms uprose before me, each conscious of the other's power, and vieing in their 8trife to bring me to thy feet! Behold me there — ^thou'st made me captive ; spurn not the prize thy virtues won.
Arieia. I pray thee, rise.
HippolytvM. Pardon, if my wild discourse, with rude offense, hath pained thy inhabituate ear.


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