Phaedra
The son of that Amazon mother:
You must know that prince I myself oppressed so long?
The son of that Amazon mother:
You must know that prince I myself oppressed so long?
Racine - Phaedra
Phaedra
Because Venus wills that of this dreadful race
I shall perish the last, and the most disgraced.
Oenone
Do you love?
Phaedra
I feel all the furies of desire.
Oenone
For whom?
Phaedra
You shall know all my deepest fire. 260
I love. . . . At the deadly name I tremble, shudder.
I love. . . .
Oenone
Whom?
Phaedra
The son of that Amazon mother:
You must know that prince I myself oppressed so long?
Oenone
Hippolyte! You gods!
Phaedra
Yes, him, you are not wrong.
Oenone
Just heaven! All the blood's frozen in my veins. 265
O despair! O crime! O you race without shame!
Unfortunate voyage! O, miserable shore!
Why did you come then to this place of danger?
Phaedra
My pain goes further back. I was scarcely tied
To Aegeus' son, by those laws that make a bride, 270
My false peace and happiness secured to me,
When Athens showed me my glorious enemy.
I saw him, I blushed: I paled at the sight:
Pain swelled in my troubled heart outright:
My eyes saw nothing: I couldn't speak for pain: 275
I felt my whole body frozen, and in flame.
I recognised Venus and her fearsome fires.
