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{t:"Racine’s Phaedre",p:2,x:238,y:372,w:515,h:71},
{t:"translated by",p:2,x:378,y:463,w:234,h:43},
{t:"Colin John Holcombe",p:2,x:302,y:527,w:386,h:43},
{t:"Ocaso Press 2008",p:2,x:357,y:590,w:276,h:39},
{t:"Racine’s Phaedra",p:3,x:94,y:128,w:230,h:31},
{t:"a new ",p:3,x:94,y:208,w:89,h:31},
{t:"transl ation by Coli",p:3,x:197,y:208,w:244,h:31},
{t:"n John Ho",p:3,x:469,y:208,w:130,h:31},
{t:"lcombe",p:3,x:618,y:208,w:103,h:31},
{t:"© Ocaso Pre",p:3,x:94,y:298,w:163,h:31},
{t:"ss 2008",p:3,x:279,y:298,w:87,h:31},
{t:"Published by Ocaso Press Ltda.",p:3,x:94,y:503,w:338,h:26},
{t:"Santiago, Chile. All rights reserved.",p:3,x:94,y:555,w:386,h:26},
{t:"The translation may be freely used for commercial and amateur productions",p:3,x:94,y:658,w:803,h:26},
{t:"provided the translator is acknowledged in any accompanying brochure,",p:3,x:94,y:689,w:803,h:26},
{t:"programme and/or handbill.",p:3,x:94,y:721,w:307,h:26},
{t:"Contents",p:4,x:89,y:121,w:137,h:37},
{t:"1. Introduction",p:4,x:89,y:204,w:162,h:26},
{t:"2",p:4,x:749,y:204,w:13,h:26},
{t:"2. Translation",p:4,x:89,y:235,w:149,h:26},
{t:"5",p:4,x:749,y:235,w:13,h:26},
{t:"Preface",p:4,x:112,y:267,w:79,h:26},
{t:"7",p:4,x:749,y:267,w:13,h:26},
{t:" Act One",p:4,x:104,y:299,w:93,h:26},
{t:"13",p:4,x:749,y:299,w:27,h:26},
{t:"Act Two",p:4,x:112,y:330,w:86,h:26},
{t:"43",p:4,x:749,y:330,w:27,h:26},
{t:" Act Three",p:4,x:104,y:362,w:111,h:26},
{t:"73",p:4,x:749,y:362,w:27,h:26},
{t:"Act Four",p:4,x:112,y:394,w:90,h:26},
{t:"95",p:4,x:749,y:394,w:27,h:26},
{t:"Act Five",p:4,x:112,y:425,w:86,h:26},
{t:"121",p:4,x:749,y:425,w:41,h:26},
{t:"3. Note on the Translation",p:4,x:89,y:457,w:284,h:26},
{t:"147",p:4,x:749,y:457,w:41,h:26},
{t:"4. Departures from Original Text",p:4,x:89,y:489,w:355,h:26},
{t:"177",p:4,x:749,y:489,w:41,h:26},
{t:"5. Glossary",p:4,x:89,y:520,w:122,h:26},
{t:"179",p:4,x:749,y:520,w:41,h:26},
{t:"6. References and Further Reading",p:4,x:89,y:552,w:377,h:26},
{t:"181",p:4,x:749,y:552,w:41,h:26},
{t:"2",p:5,x:493,y:1315,w:10,h:21},
{t:"INTRODUCTION",p:5,x:94,y:121,w:231,h:37},
{t:"Jean Racine was born in 1639, orphaned at a young age, and brought up on",p:5,x:94,y:204,w:808,h:26},
{t:"charity. He was given a first-class education by the Jansenists at Port Royal,",p:5,x:94,y:235,w:808,h:26},
{t:"and spent a further two years at their college of Beauvais. Rejecting their",p:5,x:94,y:267,w:808,h:26},
{t:"austere teachings, however, Racine began writing for the theatre in 1660,",p:5,x:94,y:299,w:807,h:26},
{t:"and by the time of Phaedra, performed in 1677, had nine plays to his credit,",p:5,x:94,y:330,w:808,h:26},
{t:"several of them masterpieces of the French classical theatre and containing",p:5,x:94,y:362,w:809,h:26},
{t:"some of its greatest poetry. Phaedra was poorly received, however, and",p:5,x:94,y:394,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Racine retired to marriage and a court position, though returning a decade",p:5,x:94,y:425,w:807,h:26},
{t:"later with two further plays: Esther and Athaliah.",p:5,x:94,y:457,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Racine's plays are profoundly moving, pessimistic and amoral. With a",p:5,x:94,y:509,w:808,h:26},
{t:"character described as voluptuous, uneasy and jealous, Jean Racine was an",p:5,x:94,y:540,w:808,h:26},
{t:"ambitious courtier, an astute businessman, and a frequenter of actresses,",p:5,x:94,y:572,w:808,h:26},
{t:"but he was also a childhood believer in the Jansenist doctrine that man is a",p:5,x:94,y:604,w:809,h:26},
{t:"miserable creature saved only by God's grace, and playwriting seems no",p:5,x:94,y:635,w:808,h:26},
{t:"longer to have interested him in later life.",p:5,x:94,y:667,w:454,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra observes the supposed rules of classical drama, but is only loosely",p:5,x:94,y:719,w:807,h:26},
{t:"modelled on plays by Euripides and Seneca.",p:5,x:94,y:750,w:480,h:26},
{t:"Theseus has been gone six months from Troezen. In his absence, Queen",p:5,x:94,y:802,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra fights a guilty passion for her stepson, Hippolytus, and he nurses a",p:5,x:94,y:834,w:809,h:26},
{t:"secret love for Aricia, a princess of Athenian (enemy) blood, to whom",p:5,x:94,y:865,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Theseus has forbidden marriage. When news comes of the death of",p:5,x:94,y:897,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Theseus, Phaedra, urged on by her nurse Oenone, declares her love for",p:5,x:94,y:929,w:809,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus, but is rebuffed. As acting ruler, Hippolytus then releases Aricia",p:5,x:94,y:960,w:807,h:26},
{t:"from her marriage restraints, declares his love, and the two reach an",p:5,x:94,y:992,w:808,h:26},
{t:"understanding that Aricia will return to claim the throne of Athens. Phaedra,",p:5,x:94,y:1024,w:808,h:26},
{t:"endangered and humiliated by her rejection, resolves to become ruler in",p:5,x:94,y:1055,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Troezen to protect the child born to her and Theseus.",p:5,x:94,y:1087,w:582,h:26},
{t:"The wandering Theseus unexpectedly returns. Oenone accuses Hippolytus of",p:5,x:94,y:1139,w:808,h:26},
{t:"an attempted rape, and the enraged Theseus calls on Neptune for",p:5,x:94,y:1170,w:808,h:26},
{t:"vengeance. Aricia and Hippolytus agree to marriage and exile together.",p:5,x:94,y:1202,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Alerted by the suicide of Oenone, and Phaedra's behaviour, Theseus now",p:5,x:94,y:1234,w:808,h:26},
{t:"reconsiders, but the curse cannot be undone. A monster rises from the sea",p:5,x:94,y:1265,w:808,h:26},
{t:"3",p:6,x:488,y:1315,w:10,h:21},
{t:"to terrify the horses of Hippolytus's chariot and drive its rider to his death.",p:6,x:89,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Theramenes, Hippolytus's tutor and friend, returns to describe the frightful",p:6,x:89,y:115,w:807,h:26},
{t:"scene. Phaedra confesses her sins, dying by poison. Remorseful and of",p:6,x:89,y:147,w:808,h:26},
{t:"sounder mind, Theseus makes Aricia heir to the throne of Troezen.",p:6,x:89,y:179,w:728,h:26},
{t:"4",p:7,x:493,y:1315,w:10,h:21},
{t:"5",p:8,x:488,y:1315,w:10,h:21},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:8,x:421,y:190,w:145,h:37},
{t:"by",p:8,x:474,y:430,w:38,h:37},
{t:"Jean Racine",p:8,x:397,y:670,w:192,h:37},
{t:"6",p:9,x:493,y:1315,w:10,h:21},
{t:"CHARACTERS",p:9,x:94,y:121,w:201,h:37},
{t:"THESEUS: Son of Aegeus and King of Athens",p:9,x:94,y:250,w:490,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE: Wife of Theseus and daughter of Minos and Pasiphaë",p:9,x:94,y:281,w:695,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS: Son of Theseus and Antiope, Queen of the Amazons",p:9,x:94,y:313,w:721,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA: Princess of the royal blood of Athens",p:9,x:94,y:345,w:494,h:26},
{t:"OENONE: Nurse to Phaedra",p:9,x:94,y:376,w:299,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES: Tutor to Hippolytus",p:9,x:94,y:408,w:376,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE: Friend of Aricia",p:9,x:94,y:440,w:266,h:26},
{t:"PANOPE: Waiting woman to Phaedra",p:9,x:94,y:471,w:398,h:26},
{t:"Guards",p:9,x:94,y:503,w:77,h:26},
{t:"PRONUNCIATION ADOPTED",p:9,x:94,y:710,w:301,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra: Phè dra",p:9,x:94,y:773,w:188,h:26},
{t:"Aricia: A rí si a",p:9,x:94,y:805,w:160,h:26},
{t:"Oenone: Ee nó nee",p:9,x:94,y:836,w:208,h:26},
{t:"Theramenes: The rá me neés",p:9,x:94,y:868,w:320,h:26},
{t:"Ismene: Is mè nee",p:9,x:94,y:900,w:207,h:26},
{t:"Panope: Pá no peé",p:9,x:94,y:931,w:204,h:26},
{t:"Pasiphaë: Pá si phá ee",p:9,x:94,y:963,w:245,h:26},
{t:"7",p:10,x:488,y:1315,w:10,h:21},
{t:"PREFACE",p:10,x:89,y:121,w:134,h:37},
{t:"Voici encore une tragédie dont le sujet est pris d'Euripide. Quoique j'aie",p:10,x:89,y:204,w:807,h:26},
{t:"suivi une route un peu différente de celle de cet auteur pour la conduite de",p:10,x:89,y:235,w:808,h:26},
{t:"l'action, je n'ai pas laissé d'enrichir ma pièce de tout ce qui m'a paru le plus",p:10,x:89,y:267,w:807,h:26},
{t:"éclatant dans la sienne. Quand je ne lui devrais que la seule idée du",p:10,x:89,y:299,w:808,h:26},
{t:"caractère de Phèdre, je pourrais dire que je lui dois ce que j'ai peut-être mis",p:10,x:89,y:330,w:808,h:26},
{t:"de plus raisonnable sur le théâtre. Je ne suis point étonné que ce caractère",p:10,x:89,y:362,w:809,h:26},
{t:"ait eu un succès si heureux du temps d'Euripide, et qu'il ait encore si bien",p:10,x:89,y:394,w:807,h:26},
{t:"réussi dans notre siècle, puisqu'il a toutes les qualités qu'Aristote demande",p:10,x:89,y:425,w:807,h:26},
{t:"dans le héros de la tragédie, et qui sont propres à exciter la compassion et",p:10,x:89,y:457,w:808,h:26},
{t:"la terreur. En effet, Phèdre n'est ni tout à fait coupable, ni tout à fait",p:10,x:89,y:489,w:808,h:26},
{t:"innocente. Elle est engagée, par sa destinée et par la colère des dieux, dans",p:10,x:89,y:520,w:808,h:26},
{t:"une passion illégitime, dont elle a horreur toute la première. Elle fait tous",p:10,x:89,y:552,w:807,h:26},
{t:"ses efforts pour la surmonter. Elle aime mieux se laisser mourir que de la",p:10,x:89,y:584,w:808,h:26},
{t:"déclarer à personne, et lorsqu'elle est forcée de la découvrir, elle en parle",p:10,x:89,y:615,w:808,h:26},
{t:"avec une confusion qui fait bien voir que son crime est plutôt une punition",p:10,x:89,y:647,w:807,h:26},
{t:"des dieux qu'un mouvement de sa volonté.",p:10,x:89,y:679,w:470,h:26},
{t:"J'ai même pris soin de la rendre un peu moins odieuse qu'elle n'est dans les",p:10,x:89,y:730,w:808,h:26},
{t:"tragédies des Anciens, où elle se résout d'elle-même à accuser Hippolyte.",p:10,x:89,y:762,w:807,h:26},
{t:"J'ai cru que la calomnie avait quelque chose de trop bas et de trop noir pour",p:10,x:89,y:794,w:807,h:26},
{t:"la mettre dans la bouche d'une princesse qui a d'ailleurs des sentiments si",p:10,x:89,y:825,w:809,h:26},
{t:"nobles et si vertueux. Cette bassesse m'a paru plus convenable à une",p:10,x:89,y:857,w:808,h:26},
{t:"nourrice qui pouvait avoir des inclinations plus serviles, et qui néanmoins",p:10,x:89,y:889,w:807,h:26},
{t:"n'entreprend cette fausse accusation que pour sauver la vie et l'honneur de",p:10,x:89,y:920,w:807,h:26},
{t:"sa maîtresse. Phèdre n'y donne les mains que parce qu'elle est dans une",p:10,x:89,y:952,w:809,h:26},
{t:"agitation d'esprit qui la met hors d'elle-même, et elle vient un moment",p:10,x:89,y:984,w:807,h:26},
{t:"après dans le dessein de justifier l'innocence et de déclarer la vérité.",p:10,x:89,y:1015,w:747,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte est accusé, dans Euripide et dans Sénèque, d'avoir en effet violé",p:10,x:89,y:1067,w:807,h:26},
{t:"sa belle-mère: vim corpus tulit. Mais il n'est ici accusé que d'en avoir eu le",p:10,x:89,y:1099,w:807,h:26},
{t:"dessein. J'ai voulu épargner à Thésée une confusion qui l'aurait pu rendre",p:10,x:89,y:1130,w:808,h:26},
{t:"moins agréable aux spectateurs.",p:10,x:89,y:1162,w:354,h:26},
{t:"8",p:11,x:493,y:1315,w:10,h:21},
{t:"PREFACE",p:11,x:94,y:121,w:134,h:37},
{t:"Here is another tragedy where the subject is taken from Euripides. Although",p:11,x:94,y:204,w:808,h:26},
{t:"I have followed a slightly different route from that of the author’s in the",p:11,x:94,y:235,w:808,h:26},
{t:"plot, I have not failed to enrich my play with all that seemed to me most",p:11,x:94,y:267,w:807,h:26},
{t:"striking in his. Even if I owed him only the idea of Phaedra’s character, I",p:11,x:94,y:299,w:808,h:26},
{t:"could say I owe him the most coherent of my plays. I am not at all",p:11,x:94,y:330,w:807,h:26},
{t:"surprised that this character had so happy a reception in Euripides’s day,",p:11,x:94,y:362,w:808,h:26},
{t:"and that it should still be successful in our century, since it has all the",p:11,x:94,y:394,w:808,h:26},
{t:"qualities Aristotle demanded of a tragic hero, which are the capacities to",p:11,x:94,y:425,w:808,h:26},
{t:"excite pity and terror. In fact, Phaedra is neither wholly guilty nor wholly",p:11,x:94,y:457,w:807,h:26},
{t:"innocent. She is trapped, by her destiny and by the anger of the gods, in an",p:11,x:94,y:489,w:808,h:26},
{t:"unlawful passion by which she is the first to be horrified. She makes every",p:11,x:94,y:520,w:808,h:26},
{t:"effort to overcome it. She prefers to die than declare it, and, when she is",p:11,x:94,y:552,w:807,h:26},
{t:"forced to reveal it, she speaks of it with such shame that her crime is clearly",p:11,x:94,y:584,w:808,h:26},
{t:"a punishment of the gods rather than a product of her own will.",p:11,x:94,y:615,w:692,h:26},
{t:"I have even taken care to make her less odious than she is in the tragedies",p:11,x:94,y:667,w:808,h:26},
{t:"of the ancients, where she herself resolves to accuse Hippolytus. I felt that",p:11,x:94,y:699,w:809,h:26},
{t:"the calumny was rather too low and foul to be put into the mouth of a",p:11,x:94,y:730,w:810,h:26},
{t:"princess whose sentiments were otherwise so noble and virtuous. Such",p:11,x:94,y:762,w:807,h:26},
{t:"baseness appeared more appropriate to a nurse who would have more",p:11,x:94,y:794,w:809,h:26},
{t:"servile inclinations but who nonetheless makes the false accusation only to",p:11,x:94,y:825,w:810,h:26},
{t:"save the life and honour of her mistress. Phaedra consents to it only",p:11,x:94,y:857,w:807,h:26},
{t:"because she is in such agitation as to be out of her mind, and she returns a",p:11,x:94,y:889,w:808,h:26},
{t:"moment later with the intention of clearing the innocent and declaring the",p:11,x:94,y:920,w:808,h:26},
{t:"truth.",p:11,x:94,y:952,w:61,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus is accused, in Euripides and Seneca, of having in fact violated his",p:11,x:94,y:1004,w:808,h:26},
{t:"stepmother: vim corpus tulit. But here he is accused only of having the",p:11,x:94,y:1035,w:808,h:26},
{t:"intention of doing so. I wished to spare Theseus an agitation that would",p:11,x:94,y:1067,w:807,h:26},
{t:"have made him less sympathetic to the audience.",p:11,x:94,y:1099,w:541,h:26},
{t:"9",p:12,x:488,y:1315,w:10,h:21},
{t:"Pour ce qui est du personnage d'Hippolyte, j'avais remarqué dans les",p:12,x:89,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Anciens qu'on reprochait à Euripide de l'avoir représenté comme un",p:12,x:89,y:115,w:808,h:26},
{t:"philosophe exempt de toute imperfection ; ce qui faisait que la mort de ce",p:12,x:89,y:147,w:807,h:26},
{t:"jeune prince causait beaucoup plus d'indignation que de pitié. J'ai cru lui",p:12,x:89,y:179,w:808,h:26},
{t:"devoir donner quelque faiblesse qui le rendrait un peu coupable envers son",p:12,x:89,y:210,w:808,h:26},
{t:"père, sans pourtant lui rien ôter de cette grandeur d'âme avec laquelle il",p:12,x:89,y:242,w:808,h:26},
{t:"épargne l'honneur de Phèdre, et se laisse opprimer sans l'accuser. J'appelle",p:12,x:89,y:274,w:807,h:26},
{t:"faiblesse la passion qu'il ressent malgré lui pour Aricie, qui est la fille et la",p:12,x:89,y:305,w:808,h:26},
{t:"soeur des ennemis mortels de son père.",p:12,x:89,y:337,w:437,h:26},
{t:"Cette Aricie n'est point un personnage de mon invention. Virgile dit",p:12,x:89,y:389,w:807,h:26},
{t:"qu'Hippolyte l'épousa, et en eut un fils, après qu'Esculape l'eut ressuscité.",p:12,x:89,y:420,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Et j'ai lu encore dans quelques auteurs qu'Hippolyte avait épousé et",p:12,x:89,y:452,w:808,h:26},
{t:"emmené en Italie une jeune Athénienne de grande naissance, qui s'appelait",p:12,x:89,y:484,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Aricie, et qui avait donné son nom à une petite ville d'Italie.",p:12,x:89,y:515,w:652,h:26},
{t:"Je rapporte ces autorités, parce que je me suis très scrupuleusement",p:12,x:89,y:567,w:808,h:26},
{t:"attaché à suivre la fable. J'ai même suivi l'histoire de Thésée telle qu'elle est",p:12,x:89,y:599,w:808,h:26},
{t:"dans Plutarque.",p:12,x:89,y:630,w:170,h:26},
{t:"C'est dans cet historien que j'ai trouvé que ce qui avait donné occasion de",p:12,x:89,y:682,w:807,h:26},
{t:"croire que Thésée fût descendu dans les enfers pour enlever Proserpine,",p:12,x:89,y:714,w:807,h:26},
{t:"était un voyage que ce prince avait fait en Épire vers la source de l'Achéron,",p:12,x:89,y:745,w:807,h:26},
{t:"chez un roi dont Pirithoüs voulait enlever la femme, et qui arrêta Thésée",p:12,x:89,y:777,w:808,h:26},
{t:"prisonnier, après avoir fait mourir Pirithoüs. Ainsi j'ai tâché de conserver la",p:12,x:89,y:809,w:808,h:26},
{t:"vraisemblance de l'histoire, sans rien perdre des ornements de la fable, qui",p:12,x:89,y:840,w:807,h:26},
{t:"fournit extrêmement à la poésie; et le bruit de la mort de Thésée, fondé sur",p:12,x:89,y:872,w:808,h:26},
{t:"ce voyage fabuleux, donne lieu à Phèdre de faire une déclaration d'amour",p:12,x:89,y:904,w:807,h:26},
{t:"qui devient une des principales causes de son malheur, et qu'elle n'aurait",p:12,x:89,y:935,w:808,h:26},
{t:"jamais osé faire tant qu'elle aurait cru que son mari était vivant.",p:12,x:89,y:967,w:702,h:26},
{t:"Au reste, je n'ose encore assurer que cette pièce soit en effet la meilleure",p:12,x:89,y:1019,w:808,h:26},
{t:"de mes tragédies. Je laisse aux lecteurs et au temps à décider de son",p:12,x:89,y:1050,w:809,h:26},
{t:"véritable prix. Ce que je puis assurer, c'est que je n'en ai point fait où la",p:12,x:89,y:1082,w:808,h:26},
{t:"vertu soit plus mise au jour que dans celle-ci. Les moindres fautes y sont",p:12,x:89,y:1114,w:808,h:26},
{t:"sévèrement punies; la seule pensée du crime y est regardée avec autant",p:12,x:89,y:1145,w:808,h:26},
{t:"d'horreur que le crime même; les faiblesses de l'amour y passent pour de",p:12,x:89,y:1177,w:809,h:26},
{t:"vraies faiblesses ; les passions n'y sont représentées aux yeux que pour",p:12,x:89,y:1209,w:807,h:26},
{t:"montrer tout le désordre dont elles sont cause; et le vice y est peint partout",p:12,x:89,y:1240,w:808,h:26},
{t:"avec des couleurs qui en font connaître et haïr la difformité. C’est là",p:12,x:89,y:1272,w:808,h:26},
{t:"10",p:13,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"As for Hippolytus, I had noticed that Euripides was reproached among the",p:13,x:94,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"ancients for depicting him as  a philosopher, free of imperfections, the result",p:13,x:94,y:115,w:808,h:26},
{t:"of which caused his death to be seen with more indignation than pity. I",p:13,x:94,y:147,w:807,h:26},
{t:"thought it best to give some failings that would render him slightly guilty",p:13,x:94,y:179,w:807,h:26},
{t:"towards his father, without however detracting from the greatness of soul",p:13,x:94,y:210,w:807,h:26},
{t:"that spares Phaedra’s honour and suffers ill-treatment without accusing her.",p:13,x:94,y:242,w:808,h:26},
{t:"I call it a frailty that he feels, despite himself, a passion for Aricia, who is",p:13,x:94,y:274,w:808,h:26},
{t:"the daughter and sister of his father’s mortal enemies.",p:13,x:94,y:305,w:594,h:26},
{t:"Aricia is not a figure of my invention. Virgil says that Hippolytus married",p:13,x:94,y:357,w:807,h:26},
{t:"her, and had a son by her after Aesculapius had restored him to life. I have",p:13,x:94,y:389,w:808,h:26},
{t:"also read in certain authors that Hippolytus married and took to Italy a",p:13,x:94,y:420,w:808,h:26},
{t:"young Athenian of high birth, whom they called Aricia, and who gave her",p:13,x:94,y:452,w:807,h:26},
{t:"name to a small Italian town.",p:13,x:94,y:484,w:320,h:26},
{t:"I mention these authorities because I have scrupulously followed the fable. I",p:13,x:94,y:535,w:808,h:26},
{t:"have even followed the story of Theseus told by Plutarch.",p:13,x:94,y:567,w:625,h:26},
{t:"In the same historian I have found that what gave rise to the belief that",p:13,x:94,y:619,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Theseus descended into Hell to abduct Proserpina was a journey the prince",p:13,x:94,y:650,w:807,h:26},
{t:"had made to Epirus near the source of Acheron, where a king, whose wife",p:13,x:94,y:682,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Pirithoüs wished to carry off, held Theseus prisoner after killing Pirithoüs.",p:13,x:94,y:714,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Accordingly I have tried to retain the credibility of the story without losing",p:13,x:94,y:745,w:807,h:26},
{t:"the ornaments of the fable, which provides so much of the poetry; the",p:13,x:94,y:777,w:808,h:26},
{t:"rumour of the death of Theseus, based on  this fabulous voyage, gives",p:13,x:94,y:809,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra the opportunity of  making her declaration of love, which becomes",p:13,x:94,y:840,w:807,h:26},
{t:"one of the principal causes of her troubles, and which  she would never have",p:13,x:94,y:872,w:808,h:26},
{t:"dared make had she believed her husband was still living.",p:13,x:94,y:904,w:630,h:26},
{t:"For the rest, I do not yet dare assert that this play is indeed the best of my",p:13,x:94,y:955,w:807,h:26},
{t:"tragedies. I leave it to my readers and to time to establish its true worth.",p:13,x:94,y:987,w:809,h:26},
{t:"What I can assert is  that in none  of them is  virtue given  such prominence",p:13,x:94,y:1019,w:808,h:26},
{t:"as this one.  The least faults are  severely punished;  the least thought  of",p:13,x:94,y:1050,w:809,h:26},
{t:"crime is regarded with the same horror as the crime itself; weaknesses of",p:13,x:94,y:1082,w:808,h:26},
{t:"love pass here for real weaknesses;  the passions are represented here only",p:13,x:94,y:1114,w:808,h:26},
{t:"to show the disorder they cause; and vice is everywhere painted in colours",p:13,x:94,y:1145,w:807,h:26},
{t:"which bring out its deformity and hatefulness. That is the proper end",p:13,x:94,y:1177,w:808,h:26},
{t:"11",p:14,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"proprement le but que tout homme qui travaille pour le public doit se",p:14,x:89,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"proposer, et c'est ce que les premiers poètes tragiques avaient en vue sur",p:14,x:89,y:115,w:808,h:26},
{t:"toute chose. Leur théâtre était une école où la vertu n'était pas moins bien",p:14,x:89,y:147,w:808,h:26},
{t:"enseignée que dans les écoles des philosophes. Aussi Aristote a bien voulu",p:14,x:89,y:179,w:808,h:26},
{t:"donner les règles du poème dramatique, et Socrate, le plus sage des",p:14,x:89,y:210,w:807,h:26},
{t:"philosophes, ne dédaignait pas de mettre la main aux tragédies d'Euripide.",p:14,x:89,y:242,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Il serait à souhaiter que nos ouvrages fussent aussi solides et pleins",p:14,x:89,y:274,w:807,h:26},
{t:"d'instructions que ceux des poètes. Ce serait peut-être un moyen de",p:14,x:89,y:305,w:808,h:26},
{t:"réconcilier la tragédie avec quantité de personnes célèbres par leur piété et",p:14,x:89,y:337,w:808,h:26},
{t:"par leur doctrine, qui l'ont condamnée dans ces derniers temps, et qui en",p:14,x:89,y:369,w:809,h:26},
{t:"jugeraient sans doute plus favorablement si les auteurs songeaient autant à",p:14,x:89,y:400,w:808,h:26},
{t:"instruire leurs spectateurs qu'à les divertir, et s'ils suivaient en cela la",p:14,x:89,y:432,w:807,h:26},
{t:"véritable intention de la tragédie.",p:14,x:89,y:464,w:362,h:26},
{t:"12",p:15,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"that every man who works for the public should propose for himself, and",p:15,x:94,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"this is what, above all, the first tragic poets had in view. Their theatre  was",p:15,x:94,y:115,w:808,h:26},
{t:"a school where virtue was not less well taught than in the schools of",p:15,x:94,y:147,w:808,h:26},
{t:"philosophers. So it was that Aristotle consented to lay down rules for the",p:15,x:94,y:179,w:808,h:26},
{t:"dramatic poem, and Socrates, the wisest of philosophers, did not disdain to",p:15,x:94,y:210,w:808,h:26},
{t:"have a hand in the composition of Euripides’ tragedies. It would be highly",p:15,x:94,y:242,w:807,h:26},
{t:"desirable if our works were as solid and full of instruction as those of these",p:15,x:94,y:274,w:808,h:26},
{t:"poets. There would perhaps be a means of reconciling to tragedy a host of",p:15,x:94,y:305,w:808,h:26},
{t:"people celebrated for their piety and doctrine who have recently condemned",p:15,x:94,y:337,w:808,h:26},
{t:"it and who would no doubt judge more favourably if authors were as keen to",p:15,x:94,y:369,w:808,h:26},
{t:"edify as to amuse their spectators, thereby fulfilling the true purpose of",p:15,x:94,y:400,w:807,h:26},
{t:"tragedy.",p:15,x:94,y:432,w:91,h:26},
{t:"13",p:16,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ACTE PREMIER",p:16,x:89,y:167,w:214,h:37},
{t:"Scène 1",p:16,x:89,y:283,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Hippolyte, Théramène",p:16,x:89,y:347,w:269,h:30},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:16,x:89,y:399,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Le dessein en est pris, je pars, cher Théramène,",p:16,x:89,y:451,w:526,h:26},
{t:"Et quitte le séjour de l'aimable Trézène.",p:16,x:89,y:483,w:434,h:26},
{t:"Dans le doute mortel où je suis agité,",p:16,x:89,y:514,w:409,h:26},
{t:"Je commence à rougir de mon oisiveté.",p:16,x:89,y:546,w:428,h:26},
{t:"Depuis plus de six mois éloigné de mon père,",p:16,x:89,y:578,w:495,h:26},
{t:"J'ignore le destin d'une tête si chère ;",p:16,x:89,y:609,w:411,h:26},
{t:"J'ignore jusqu'aux lieux qui le peuvent cacher.",p:16,x:89,y:641,w:505,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:16,x:89,y:693,w:134,h:26},
{t:"Et dans quels lieux, Seigneur, l'allez-vous donc chercher ?",p:16,x:89,y:744,w:633,h:26},
{t:"Déjà, pour satisfaire à votre juste crainte,",p:16,x:89,y:776,w:455,h:26},
{t:"10. J'ai couru les deux mers que sépare Corinthe ;",p:16,x:89,y:808,w:550,h:26},
{t:"J'ai demandé Thésée aux peuples de ces bords",p:16,x:89,y:839,w:509,h:26},
{t:"Où l'on voit l'Acheron se perdre chez les morts ;",p:16,x:89,y:871,w:526,h:26},
{t:"J'ai visité l'Élide, et, laissant le Ténare,",p:16,x:89,y:903,w:421,h:26},
{t:"Passé jusqu'à la mer qui vit tomber Icare.",p:16,x:89,y:934,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Sur quel espoir nouveau, dans quels heureux climats",p:16,x:89,y:966,w:577,h:26},
{t:"Croyez-vous découvrir la trace de ses pas ?",p:16,x:89,y:998,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Qui sait même, qui sait si le Roi votre père",p:16,x:89,y:1029,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Veut que de son absence on sache le mystère ?",p:16,x:89,y:1061,w:519,h:26},
{t:"Et si, lorsqu'avec vous nous tremblons pour ses jours,",p:16,x:89,y:1093,w:589,h:26},
{t:"20. Tranquille, et nous cachant de nouvelles amours,",p:16,x:89,y:1124,w:577,h:26},
{t:"Ce héros n'attend point qu'une amante abusée...",p:16,x:89,y:1156,w:532,h:26},
{t:"14",p:17,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ACT ONE",p:17,x:94,y:161,w:137,h:37},
{t:"Scene 1",p:17,x:94,y:277,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Hippolytus, Theramenes",p:17,x:94,y:341,w:287,h:30},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:17,x:94,y:387,w:139,h:30},
{t:"I leave, Theramenes: my course is set.",p:17,x:94,y:440,w:426,h:26},
{t:"No more in pleasant Troezen will I let",p:17,x:94,y:472,w:407,h:26},
{t:"myself be agitated by unease.",p:17,x:94,y:503,w:328,h:26},
{t:"I start to blush at idleness that sees",p:17,x:94,y:535,w:391,h:26},
{t:"my father’s six month’s leaving us has led",p:17,x:94,y:567,w:458,h:26},
{t:"to unknown destinies for that dear head.",p:17,x:94,y:598,w:444,h:26},
{t:"Unknown to me the places it may hide.",p:17,x:94,y:630,w:427,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:17,x:94,y:682,w:149,h:26},
{t:"Then, Prince, where look for him? I've scoured each side",p:17,x:94,y:733,w:617,h:26},
{t:"the oceans bounding Corinth for some word",p:17,x:94,y:765,w:477,h:26},
{t:"of Theseus, what was rumoured, who had heard.",p:17,x:94,y:797,w:533,h:26},
{t:"My search to calm your natural fears has led",p:17,x:94,y:828,w:484,h:26},
{t:"to shores where Acheron fades into the dead.",p:17,x:94,y:860,w:495,h:26},
{t:"I've called at Elis and from Taenarus",p:17,x:94,y:892,w:397,h:26},
{t:"surveyed the waters swallowing Icarus.",p:17,x:94,y:923,w:428,h:26},
{t:"What makes you think that through some happy place",p:17,x:94,y:955,w:591,h:26},
{t:"the steps of our dear hero left their trace?",p:17,x:94,y:987,w:459,h:26},
{t:"Perhaps the king, your father, is not prone",p:17,x:94,y:1018,w:464,h:26},
{t:"to have the secrets of his absence known",p:17,x:94,y:1050,w:449,h:26},
{t:"and while we tremble for his life he stays",p:17,x:94,y:1082,w:447,h:26},
{t:"20. in blessed tranquillity, in hiding plays",p:17,x:94,y:1113,w:447,h:26},
{t:"with some new love who cannot yet suspect. . .",p:17,x:94,y:1145,w:518,h:26},
{t:"15",p:18,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:18,x:89,y:84,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Cher Théramène, arrête, et respecte Thésée.",p:18,x:89,y:135,w:490,h:26},
{t:"De ses jeunes erreurs désormais revenu,",p:18,x:89,y:167,w:446,h:26},
{t:"Par un indigne obstacle il n'est point retenu ;",p:18,x:89,y:199,w:491,h:26},
{t:"Et fixant de ses voeux l'inconstance fatale,",p:18,x:89,y:230,w:463,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre depuis longtemps ne craint plus de rivale.",p:18,x:89,y:262,w:538,h:26},
{t:"Enfin en le cherchant je suivrai mon devoir,",p:18,x:89,y:294,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Et je fuirai ces lieux que je n'ose plus voir.",p:18,x:89,y:325,w:463,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:18,x:89,y:377,w:134,h:26},
{t:"Hé ! depuis quand, Seigneur, craignez-vous la présence",p:18,x:89,y:429,w:608,h:26},
{t:"30. De ces paisibles lieux, si chers à votre enfance,",p:18,x:89,y:460,w:557,h:26},
{t:"Et dont je vous ai vu préférer le séjour",p:18,x:89,y:492,w:421,h:26},
{t:"Au tumulte pompeux d'Athènes et de la cour ?",p:18,x:89,y:524,w:506,h:26},
{t:"Quel péril, ou plutôt quel chagrin vous en chasse ?",p:18,x:89,y:555,w:552,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:18,x:89,y:607,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Cet heureux temps n'est plus. Tout a changé de face",p:18,x:89,y:659,w:574,h:26},
{t:"Depuis que sur ces bords les Dieux ont envoyé",p:18,x:89,y:690,w:510,h:26},
{t:"La fille de Minos et de Pasiphaé.",p:18,x:89,y:722,w:349,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:18,x:89,y:774,w:134,h:26},
{t:"J'entends. De vos douleurs la cause m'est connue,",p:18,x:89,y:825,w:549,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre ici vous chagrine, et blesse votre vue.",p:18,x:89,y:857,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Dangereuse marâtre, à peine elle vous vit",p:18,x:89,y:889,w:456,h:26},
{t:"40. Que votre exil d'abord signala son crédit.",p:18,x:89,y:920,w:491,h:26},
{t:"Mais sa haine sur vous autrefois attachée,",p:18,x:89,y:952,w:457,h:26},
{t:"Ou s'est évanouie, ou bien s'est relâchée.",p:18,x:89,y:984,w:453,h:26},
{t:"Et d'ailleurs, quels périls peut vous faire courir",p:18,x:89,y:1015,w:506,h:26},
{t:"Une femme mourante et qui cherche à mourir ?",p:18,x:89,y:1047,w:520,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre, atteinte d'un mal qu'elle s'obstine à taire,",p:18,x:89,y:1079,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Lasse enfin d'elle-même et du jour qui l'éclaire,",p:18,x:89,y:1110,w:517,h:26},
{t:"Peut-elle contre vous former quelques desseins ?",p:18,x:89,y:1142,w:535,h:26},
{t:"16",p:19,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:19,x:94,y:84,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Now, good Theramenes, show more respect.",p:19,x:94,y:135,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Our king renounced such errors with his youth,",p:19,x:94,y:167,w:513,h:26},
{t:"and that once dangerous obstacle to truth,",p:19,x:94,y:199,w:465,h:26},
{t:"his fateful, wandering heart, is as the throne,",p:19,x:94,y:230,w:494,h:26},
{t:"bestowed on Phaedra, and on her alone.",p:19,x:94,y:262,w:440,h:26},
{t:"As I too, leaving what I cannot face,",p:19,x:94,y:294,w:395,h:26},
{t:"return my duty to its rightful place.",p:19,x:94,y:325,w:384,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:19,x:94,y:377,w:149,h:26},
{t:"Since when, my lord, would you avert your gaze",p:19,x:94,y:429,w:528,h:26},
{t:"30. from childhood’s peaceful haunts of happy days?",p:19,x:94,y:460,w:573,h:26},
{t:"Which you prefer, I’ve seen, indeed have sought",p:19,x:94,y:492,w:529,h:26},
{t:"above the stir and pomp of Athen’s court.",p:19,x:94,y:524,w:454,h:26},
{t:"What peril — worse, affliction — could you fear?",p:19,x:94,y:555,w:523,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:19,x:94,y:607,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Those happy days are gone. All changes here",p:19,x:94,y:659,w:494,h:26},
{t:"since gods have sent to us across the sea",p:19,x:94,y:690,w:454,h:26},
{t:"the child of Minos and of Pasiphaë.",p:19,x:94,y:722,w:378,h:26},
{t:" THERAMENES",p:19,x:94,y:774,w:157,h:26},
{t:"The source of that discomfort’s known to me,",p:19,x:94,y:825,w:494,h:26},
{t:"the queen’s malevolence in all you see.",p:19,x:94,y:857,w:428,h:26},
{t:"A dangerous second wife who, when she leant",p:19,x:94,y:889,w:503,h:26},
{t:"40. her power toward you, had you exile bent.",p:19,x:94,y:920,w:506,h:26},
{t:"And yet she changes, and that erstwhile hate",p:19,x:94,y:952,w:494,h:26},
{t:"towards you faints or slackens much of late.",p:19,x:94,y:984,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Besides, what perils come from faltering breath,",p:19,x:94,y:1015,w:525,h:26},
{t:"a woman perishing, who chooses death.",p:19,x:94,y:1047,w:437,h:26},
{t:"An unnamed illness weighs down Phaedra’s sight.",p:19,x:94,y:1079,w:540,h:26},
{t:"She tires of living, of herself, the light:",p:19,x:94,y:1110,w:423,h:26},
{t:"what ills could issue from that sickened head?",p:19,x:94,y:1142,w:500,h:26},
{t:"17",p:20,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:20,x:89,y:84,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Sa vaine inimitié n'est pas ce que je crains.",p:20,x:89,y:135,w:473,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte en partant fuit une autre ennemie.",p:20,x:89,y:167,w:487,h:26},
{t:"50. Je fuis, je l'avoûrai, cette jeune Aricie,",p:20,x:89,y:199,w:460,h:26},
{t:"Reste d'un sang fatal conjuré contre nous.",p:20,x:89,y:230,w:461,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:20,x:89,y:282,w:134,h:26},
{t:"Quoi ! vous-même, Seigneur, la persécutez-vous ?",p:20,x:89,y:334,w:553,h:26},
{t:"Jamais l'aimable soeur des cruels Pallantides",p:20,x:89,y:365,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Trempa-t-elle aux complots de ses frères perfides ?",p:20,x:89,y:397,w:562,h:26},
{t:"Et devez-vous haïr ces innocents appas ?",p:20,x:89,y:429,w:448,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:20,x:89,y:480,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Si je la haïssais, je ne la fuirais pas.",p:20,x:89,y:532,w:391,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:20,x:89,y:584,w:134,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur, m'est-il permis d'expliquer votre fuite ?",p:20,x:89,y:635,w:542,h:26},
{t:"Pourriez-vous n'être plus ce superbe Hippolyte,",p:20,x:89,y:667,w:515,h:26},
{t:"Implacable ennemi des amoureuses lois,",p:20,x:89,y:699,w:443,h:26},
{t:"60. Et d'un joug que Thésée a subi tant de fois ?",p:20,x:89,y:730,w:528,h:26},
{t:"Vénus, par votre orgueil si longtemps méprisée,",p:20,x:89,y:762,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Voudrait-elle à la fin justifier Thésée ?",p:20,x:89,y:794,w:414,h:26},
{t:"Et vous mettant au rang du reste des mortels,",p:20,x:89,y:825,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Vous a-t-elle forcé d'encenser ses autels ?",p:20,x:89,y:857,w:459,h:26},
{t:"Aimeriez-vous, Seigneur ?",p:20,x:89,y:889,w:286,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:20,x:89,y:940,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Ami, qu'oses-tu dire ?",p:20,x:89,y:992,w:239,h:26},
{t:"Toi qui connais mon coeur depuis que je respire,",p:20,x:89,y:1024,w:529,h:26},
{t:"Des sentiments d'un coeur si fier, si dédaigneux,",p:20,x:89,y:1055,w:531,h:26},
{t:"Peux-tu me demander le désaveu honteux ?",p:20,x:89,y:1087,w:482,h:26},
{t:"C'est peu qu'avec son lait une mère amazone",p:20,x:89,y:1119,w:495,h:26},
{t:"70. M'ait fait sucer encor cet orgueil qui t'étonne ;",p:20,x:89,y:1150,w:546,h:26},
{t:"Dans un âge plus mûr moi-même parvenu,",p:20,x:89,y:1182,w:469,h:26},
{t:"Je me suis applaudi quand je me suis connu.",p:20,x:89,y:1214,w:488,h:26},
{t:"18",p:21,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:21,x:94,y:84,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Not Phaedra’s enmity that I must dread,",p:21,x:94,y:135,w:440,h:26},
{t:"but one more deadly, an inveterate foe,",p:21,x:94,y:167,w:435,h:26},
{t:"50. the young Aricia, in whom there flow",p:21,x:94,y:199,w:444,h:26},
{t:"more treacheries of blood than we dare view.",p:21,x:94,y:230,w:494,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:21,x:94,y:282,w:149,h:26},
{t:"My lord, would you then persecute her too?",p:21,x:94,y:334,w:475,h:26},
{t:"She had no part in her cruel brother’s plan,",p:21,x:94,y:365,w:471,h:26},
{t:"but was the gentle sister of the Pallas clan.",p:21,x:94,y:397,w:469,h:26},
{t:"Unless you hate her for her simple charms?",p:21,x:94,y:429,w:474,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:21,x:94,y:480,w:138,h:26},
{t:"It’s not a hate of her that sounds alarms.",p:21,x:94,y:532,w:448,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:21,x:94,y:584,w:149,h:26},
{t:"If you will give me leave, my lord: suppose",p:21,x:94,y:635,w:472,h:26},
{t:"all changed: a new Hippolytus arose",p:21,x:94,y:667,w:395,h:26},
{t:"who did not fight the burdens love has sent",p:21,x:94,y:699,w:474,h:26},
{t:"60. but were as Theseus is, obedient,",p:21,x:94,y:730,w:408,h:26},
{t:"and far from scorning Venus in her pride",p:21,x:94,y:762,w:441,h:26},
{t:"would join the homage at your father’s side:",p:21,x:94,y:794,w:484,h:26},
{t:"mortal like the rest of us, an endless line",p:21,x:94,y:825,w:445,h:26},
{t:"that comes to make entreaties at her shrine.",p:21,x:94,y:857,w:488,h:26},
{t:"Are you in love?",p:21,x:94,y:889,w:175,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:21,x:94,y:940,w:138,h:26},
{t:"You shall not say so. You,",p:21,x:94,y:992,w:279,h:26},
{t:"who knew me from the earliest breaths I drew,",p:21,x:94,y:1024,w:513,h:26},
{t:"must know I cannot quickly disavow",p:21,x:94,y:1055,w:394,h:26},
{t:"that upright bearing that I knew till now.",p:21,x:94,y:1087,w:444,h:26},
{t:"That mother’s milk of Amazons had wrought,",p:21,x:94,y:1119,w:491,h:26},
{t:"70. albeit small, its miracles and brought",p:21,x:94,y:1150,w:446,h:26},
{t:"me up in childhood till I came to be",p:21,x:94,y:1182,w:387,h:26},
{t:"that self-approving thing which you now see.",p:21,x:94,y:1214,w:491,h:26},
{t:"19",p:22,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Attaché près de moi par un zèle sincère,",p:22,x:89,y:84,w:439,h:26},
{t:"Tu me contais alors l'histoire de mon père.",p:22,x:89,y:115,w:465,h:26},
{t:"Tu sais combien mon âme, attentive à ta voix,",p:22,x:89,y:147,w:505,h:26},
{t:"S'échauffait au récit de ses nobles exploits,",p:22,x:89,y:179,w:470,h:26},
{t:"Quand tu me dépeignais ce héros intrépide",p:22,x:89,y:210,w:468,h:26},
{t:"Consolant les mortels de l'absence d'Alcide,",p:22,x:89,y:242,w:475,h:26},
{t:"Les monstres étouffés et les brigands punis,",p:22,x:89,y:274,w:480,h:26},
{t:"80. Procuste, Cercyon, et Scirron, et Sinnis,",p:22,x:89,y:305,w:478,h:26},
{t:"Et les os dispersés du géant d'Epidaure,",p:22,x:89,y:337,w:434,h:26},
{t:"Et la Crète fumant du sang du Minotaure.",p:22,x:89,y:369,w:451,h:26},
{t:"Mais quand tu récitais des faits moins glorieux,",p:22,x:89,y:400,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Sa foi partout offerte et reçue en cent lieux,",p:22,x:89,y:432,w:478,h:26},
{t:"Hélène à ses parents dans Sparte dérobée,",p:22,x:89,y:464,w:468,h:26},
{t:"Salamine témoin des pleurs de Péribée,",p:22,x:89,y:495,w:431,h:26},
{t:"Tant d'autres, dont les noms lui sont même échappés,",p:22,x:89,y:527,w:592,h:26},
{t:"Trop crédules esprits que sa flamme a trompés ;",p:22,x:89,y:559,w:530,h:26},
{t:"Ariane aux rochers contant ses injustices,",p:22,x:89,y:590,w:452,h:26},
{t:"90. Phèdre enlevée enfin sous de meilleurs auspices ;",p:22,x:89,y:622,w:585,h:26},
{t:"Tu sais comme à regret écoutant ce discours,",p:22,x:89,y:654,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Je te pressais souvent d'en abréger le cours :",p:22,x:89,y:685,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Heureux si j'avais pu ravir à la mémoire",p:22,x:89,y:717,w:435,h:26},
{t:"Cette indigne moitié d'une si belle histoire !",p:22,x:89,y:749,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Et moi-même, à mon tour, je me verrais lié ?",p:22,x:89,y:780,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Et les Dieux jusque-là m'auraient humilié ?",p:22,x:89,y:812,w:468,h:26},
{t:"Dans mes lâches soupirs d'autant plus méprisable,",p:22,x:89,y:844,w:551,h:26},
{t:"Qu'un long amas d'honneurs rend Thésée excusable,",p:22,x:89,y:875,w:574,h:26},
{t:"Qu'aucuns monstres par moi domptés jusqu'aujourd'hui",p:22,x:89,y:907,w:609,h:26},
{t:"100. Ne m'ont acquis le droit de faillir comme lui.",p:22,x:89,y:939,w:538,h:26},
{t:"Quand même ma fierté pourrait s'être adoucie,",p:22,x:89,y:970,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Aurais-je pour vainqueur dû choisir Aricie ?",p:22,x:89,y:1002,w:470,h:26},
{t:"Ne souviendrait-il plus à mes sens égarés",p:22,x:89,y:1034,w:454,h:26},
{t:"De l'obstacle éternel qui nous a séparés ?",p:22,x:89,y:1065,w:454,h:26},
{t:"Mon père la réprouve ; et par des lois sévères",p:22,x:89,y:1097,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Il défend de donner des neveux à ses frères :",p:22,x:89,y:1129,w:497,h:26},
{t:"D'une tige coupable il craint un rejeton ;",p:22,x:89,y:1160,w:442,h:26},
{t:"Il veut avec leur soeur ensevelir leur nom,",p:22,x:89,y:1192,w:461,h:26},
{t:"20",p:23,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"And you, devoted friend, conveyed to me",p:23,x:94,y:84,w:451,h:26},
{t:"the exploits in my father’s history.",p:23,x:94,y:115,w:374,h:26},
{t:"How eagerly, with swelling heart, I heard",p:23,x:94,y:147,w:449,h:26},
{t:"you tell those noble stories, every word:",p:23,x:94,y:179,w:440,h:26},
{t:"the daring hero, one whose deeds will please",p:23,x:94,y:210,w:490,h:26},
{t:"a world left wanting another Hercules.",p:23,x:94,y:242,w:415,h:26},
{t:"I heard of monsters throttled, bandits gone:",p:23,x:94,y:274,w:482,h:26},
{t:"80. Procrustes, Scirron, Sinnis, Cercyon —",p:23,x:94,y:305,w:462,h:26},
{t:"all scattered as Epidaurus’s vast bones",p:23,x:94,y:337,w:421,h:26},
{t:"or blood of Minotaur on Crete’s hot stones.",p:23,x:94,y:369,w:467,h:26},
{t:"You also told me of less glorious feats,",p:23,x:94,y:400,w:420,h:26},
{t:"in countless lands the pledges and deceits.",p:23,x:94,y:432,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Against her parent’s hopes he drew the Sparta queen,",p:23,x:94,y:464,w:590,h:26},
{t:"and Salamis has Periboë’s sadness seen.",p:23,x:94,y:495,w:443,h:26},
{t:"So many, the very names escape him now:",p:23,x:94,y:527,w:474,h:26},
{t:"the gullible beguiled by love’s sweet vow.",p:23,x:94,y:559,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Ariadne weeping to the rocks alone",p:23,x:94,y:590,w:383,h:26},
{t:"90. and Phaedre snatched away, if to a throne.",p:23,x:94,y:622,w:512,h:26},
{t:"How much I hated stories of this shabby sort",p:23,x:94,y:654,w:489,h:26},
{t:"and therefore often begged you cut them short.",p:23,x:94,y:685,w:521,h:26},
{t:"How happy with posterity I’d be",p:23,x:94,y:717,w:347,h:26},
{t:"with half those stories left to memory.",p:23,x:94,y:749,w:416,h:26},
{t:"But now I find myself enslaved, in turn",p:23,x:94,y:780,w:424,h:26},
{t:"brought down already by the gods’ concern.",p:23,x:94,y:812,w:480,h:26},
{t:"A weakness more contemptible because",p:23,x:94,y:844,w:435,h:26},
{t:"I am no conqueror as Theseus was.",p:23,x:94,y:875,w:387,h:26},
{t:"What rights from monsters have I won",p:23,x:94,y:907,w:421,h:26},
{t:"100. that I may wander as my father’s done?",p:23,x:94,y:939,w:493,h:26},
{t:"I would subject myself, but choosing her,",p:23,x:94,y:970,w:451,h:26},
{t:"Aricia, to be my conqueror",p:23,x:94,y:1002,w:289,h:26},
{t:"I’ve made the worst of choices: she is one",p:23,x:94,y:1034,w:460,h:26},
{t:"that’s barred eternally, that I must shun.",p:23,x:94,y:1065,w:447,h:26},
{t:"My father holds her from the marriage shrine",p:23,x:94,y:1097,w:492,h:26},
{t:"in fear she propagate her brothers’ line:",p:23,x:94,y:1129,w:436,h:26},
{t:"no sons to make that house’s reckless claim",p:23,x:94,y:1160,w:479,h:26},
{t:"from her continuing that guilty name.",p:23,x:94,y:1192,w:409,h:26},
{t:"21",p:24,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Et que jusqu'au tombeau soumise à sa tutelle,",p:24,x:89,y:84,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Jamais les feux d'hymen ne s'allument pour elle.",p:24,x:89,y:115,w:530,h:26},
{t:"Dois-je épouser ses droits contre un père irrité ?",p:24,x:89,y:147,w:529,h:26},
{t:"Donnerai-je l'exemple à la témérité ?",p:24,x:89,y:179,w:405,h:26},
{t:"Et dans un fol amour ma jeunesse embarquée...",p:24,x:89,y:210,w:526,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:24,x:89,y:262,w:134,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! Seigneur si votre heure est une fois marquée,",p:24,x:89,y:314,w:551,h:26},
{t:"Le Ciel de nos raisons ne sait point s'informer.",p:24,x:89,y:345,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Thésée ouvre vos yeux en voulant les fermer,",p:24,x:89,y:377,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Et sa haine, irritant une flamme rebelle,",p:24,x:89,y:409,w:434,h:26},
{t:"Prête à son ennemie une grâce nouvelle.",p:24,x:89,y:440,w:443,h:26},
{t:"Enfin d'un chaste amour pourquoi vous effrayer ?",p:24,x:89,y:472,w:538,h:26},
{t:"S'il a quelque douceur, n'osez-vous l'essayer ?",p:24,x:89,y:504,w:507,h:26},
{t:"En croirez-vous toujours un farouche scrupule ?",p:24,x:89,y:535,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Craint-on de s'égarer sur les traces d'Hercule ?",p:24,x:89,y:567,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Quels courages Vénus n'a-t-elle pas domptés !",p:24,x:89,y:599,w:508,h:26},
{t:"Vous-même où seriez-vous, vous qui la combattez,",p:24,x:89,y:630,w:559,h:26},
{t:"Si toujours Antiope à ses lois opposée,",p:24,x:89,y:662,w:421,h:26},
{t:"D'une pudique ardeur n'eût brûlé pour Thésée ?",p:24,x:89,y:694,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Mais que sert d'affecter un superbe discours ?",p:24,x:89,y:725,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Avouez-le, tout change ; et depuis quelques jours",p:24,x:89,y:757,w:543,h:26},
{t:"On vous voit moins souvent, orgueilleux et sauvage,",p:24,x:89,y:789,w:572,h:26},
{t:"Tantôt faire voler un char sur le rivage,",p:24,x:89,y:820,w:428,h:26},
{t:"Tantôt, savant dans l'art par Neptune inventé,",p:24,x:89,y:852,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Rendre docile au frein un coursier indompté.",p:24,x:89,y:884,w:485,h:26},
{t:"Les forêts de nos cris moins souvent retentissent.",p:24,x:89,y:915,w:541,h:26},
{t:"Chargés d'un feu secret, vos yeux s'appesantissent.",p:24,x:89,y:947,w:565,h:26},
{t:"Il n'en faut point douter : vous aimez, vous brûlez ;",p:24,x:89,y:979,w:565,h:26},
{t:"Vous périssez d'un mal que vous dissimulez.",p:24,x:89,y:1010,w:484,h:26},
{t:"La charmante Aricie a-t-elle su vous plaire ?",p:24,x:89,y:1042,w:480,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:24,x:89,y:1094,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Théramène, je pars, et vais chercher mon père.",p:24,x:89,y:1145,w:520,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:24,x:89,y:1197,w:134,h:26},
{t:"Ne verrez-vous point Phèdre avant que de partir,",p:24,x:89,y:1249,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur ?",p:24,x:89,y:1280,w:116,h:26},
{t:"22",p:25,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"A tomb he’ll have for her: he never tires",p:25,x:94,y:84,w:439,h:26},
{t:"110. of guardianship to ward off hymen’s fires.",p:25,x:94,y:115,w:511,h:26},
{t:"Must I, to take her cause, now disobey",p:25,x:94,y:147,w:423,h:26},
{t:"and set a poor example to my father’s say?",p:25,x:94,y:179,w:473,h:26},
{t:"Unless on madness has my youth embarked . . .",p:25,x:94,y:210,w:528,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:25,x:94,y:262,w:149,h:26},
{t:"My Lord, if once that signal hour is marked",p:25,x:94,y:314,w:468,h:26},
{t:"the sky will give no reasons, even cares",p:25,x:94,y:345,w:434,h:26},
{t:"that Theseus opened eyes to those affairs.",p:25,x:94,y:377,w:463,h:26},
{t:"His hate repels you, and you take up arms",p:25,x:94,y:409,w:463,h:26},
{t:"to give his enemy her added charms.",p:25,x:94,y:440,w:405,h:26},
{t:"Surely love that’s virtuous will dare",p:25,x:94,y:472,w:384,h:26},
{t:"120. to taste the charity of sweetness there?",p:25,x:94,y:504,w:488,h:26},
{t:"What is the terror then that hopes but flees",p:25,x:94,y:535,w:473,h:26},
{t:"that erring path once trod by Hercules?",p:25,x:94,y:567,w:428,h:26},
{t:"You fight, but Venus conquers bravery,",p:25,x:94,y:599,w:426,h:26},
{t:"and had she not, indeed, where would you be?",p:25,x:94,y:630,w:509,h:26},
{t:"Antiope your mother fought love’s claim",p:25,x:94,y:662,w:436,h:26},
{t:"but burned for Theseus with bashful flame.",p:25,x:94,y:694,w:468,h:26},
{t:"No point in speaking in such high-flown ways:",p:25,x:94,y:725,w:501,h:26},
{t:"acknowledge it: all passes: we these days",p:25,x:94,y:757,w:457,h:26},
{t:"hear not your headstrong actions as before.",p:25,x:94,y:789,w:477,h:26},
{t:"130. No race of chariot along the shore,",p:25,x:94,y:820,w:434,h:26},
{t:"no wild made docile, nor the horses’ train",p:25,x:94,y:852,w:452,h:26},
{t:"as Neptune teaches us now come to rein.",p:25,x:94,y:884,w:449,h:26},
{t:"Infrequently from woods your shout returns",p:25,x:94,y:915,w:478,h:26},
{t:"but in your eyes an illness grimly burns.",p:25,x:94,y:947,w:438,h:26},
{t:"You cannot doubt it, lord, nor turn aside",p:25,x:94,y:979,w:438,h:26},
{t:"from that deep malady which you would hide.",p:25,x:94,y:1010,w:498,h:26},
{t:"It’s charmed Aricia for whom you yearn.",p:25,x:94,y:1042,w:439,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:25,x:94,y:1094,w:138,h:26},
{t:"I go to aid my father’s safe return.",p:25,x:94,y:1145,w:377,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:25,x:94,y:1197,w:149,h:26},
{t:"You’ll call on Phaedre, though, before you go?",p:25,x:94,y:1249,w:501,h:26},
{t:"23",p:26,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:26,x:89,y:84,w:121,h:26},
{t:"140. C'est mon dessein : tu peux l'en avertir.",p:26,x:89,y:135,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Voyons-la, puisqu'ainsi mon devoir me l'ordonne.",p:26,x:89,y:167,w:539,h:26},
{t:"Mais quel nouveau malheur trouble sa chère OEnone ?",p:26,x:89,y:199,w:593,h:26},
{t:"Scène 2",p:26,x:89,y:261,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Oenone Hippolyte, Théramène",p:26,x:89,y:324,w:377,h:30},
{t:"OENONE",p:26,x:89,y:377,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Hélas ! Seigneur, quel trouble au mien peut être égal ?",p:26,x:89,y:429,w:599,h:26},
{t:"La Reine touche presque à son terme fatal.",p:26,x:89,y:460,w:469,h:26},
{t:"En vain à l'observer jour et nuit je m'attache :",p:26,x:89,y:492,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Elle meurt dans mes bras d'un mal qu'elle me cache.",p:26,x:89,y:524,w:576,h:26},
{t:"Un désordre éternel règne dans son esprit.",p:26,x:89,y:555,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Son chagrin inquiet l'arrache de son lit.",p:26,x:89,y:587,w:427,h:26},
{t:"Elle veut voir le jour ; et sa douleur profonde",p:26,x:89,y:619,w:491,h:26},
{t:"150. M'ordonne toutefois d'écarter tout le monde...",p:26,x:89,y:650,w:558,h:26},
{t:"Elle vient.",p:26,x:89,y:682,w:107,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:26,x:89,y:734,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Il suffit : je la laisse en ces lieux,",p:26,x:89,y:785,w:361,h:26},
{t:"Et ne lui montre point un visage odieux.",p:26,x:89,y:817,w:436,h:26},
{t:"Scène 3",p:26,x:89,y:879,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phèdre, Oenone",p:26,x:89,y:943,w:202,h:30},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:26,x:89,y:995,w:88,h:26},
{t:"N'allons point plus avant. Demeurons, chère OEnone.",p:26,x:89,y:1047,w:581,h:26},
{t:"Je ne me soutiens plus, ma force m'abandonne.",p:26,x:89,y:1079,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Mes yeux sont éblouis du jour que je revoi,",p:26,x:89,y:1110,w:471,h:26},
{t:"Et mes genoux tremblants se dérobent sous moi.",p:26,x:89,y:1142,w:535,h:26},
{t:"Hélas !",p:26,x:89,y:1174,w:75,h:26},
{t:"24",p:27,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:27,x:94,y:84,w:138,h:26},
{t:"140. I do intend to: you may tell her so.",p:27,x:94,y:135,w:440,h:26},
{t:"It’s only duty to attend, but here’s",p:27,x:94,y:167,w:375,h:26},
{t:"Oenone come again with more sad tears.",p:27,x:94,y:199,w:448,h:26},
{t:"Scene 2",p:27,x:94,y:261,w:97,h:30},
{t:" Hippolytus, Oenone, Theramenes",p:27,x:94,y:324,w:409,h:30},
{t:"OENONE",p:27,x:94,y:377,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Who ever had such troubles to contend",p:27,x:94,y:429,w:427,h:26},
{t:"with, sir? The queen is sinking to her end,",p:27,x:94,y:460,w:457,h:26},
{t:"and night and day I nurse her, but must see",p:27,x:94,y:492,w:483,h:26},
{t:"her smitten of some hidden malady.",p:27,x:94,y:524,w:394,h:26},
{t:"Eternally disorder rules her head",p:27,x:94,y:555,w:356,h:26},
{t:"and now the torments pull her from her bed.",p:27,x:94,y:587,w:487,h:26},
{t:"She wants the light, but in her agony",p:27,x:94,y:619,w:405,h:26},
{t:"150. requires that no one be with her but me.",p:27,x:94,y:650,w:500,h:26},
{t:"She comes.",p:27,x:94,y:682,w:126,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:27,x:94,y:734,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Enough. I’m pleased to leave this place",p:27,x:94,y:785,w:428,h:26},
{t:"and not again to show this hateful face.",p:27,x:94,y:817,w:432,h:26},
{t:"Scene 3",p:27,x:94,y:879,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phaedra, Oenone",p:27,x:94,y:943,w:220,h:30},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:27,x:94,y:995,w:103,h:26},
{t:"Do not go from me, Oenone. Stay:",p:27,x:94,y:1047,w:380,h:26},
{t:"my feelings ebb from me, my strength gives way:",p:27,x:94,y:1079,w:546,h:26},
{t:"the light around me dazzles and my state",p:27,x:94,y:1110,w:452,h:26},
{t:"is such my trembling knees won’t bear my weight.",p:27,x:94,y:1142,w:550,h:26},
{t:"25",p:28,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OENONE",p:28,x:89,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Dieux tout-puissants ! que nos pleurs vous apaisent.",p:28,x:89,y:135,w:573,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:28,x:89,y:187,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Que ces vains ornements, que ces voiles me pèsent !",p:28,x:89,y:239,w:580,h:26},
{t:"Quelle importune main, en formant tous ces noeuds,",p:28,x:89,y:270,w:575,h:26},
{t:"160. A pris soin sur mon front d'assembler mes cheveux ?",p:28,x:89,y:302,w:634,h:26},
{t:"Tout m'afflige et me nuit, et conspire à me nuire.",p:28,x:89,y:334,w:537,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:28,x:89,y:385,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Comme on voit tous ses voeux l'un l'autre se détruire !",p:28,x:89,y:437,w:600,h:26},
{t:"Vous-même, condamnant vos injustes desseins,",p:28,x:89,y:469,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Tantôt à vous parer vous excitiez nos mains ;",p:28,x:89,y:500,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Vous-même, rappelant votre force première,",p:28,x:89,y:532,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Vous vouliez vous montrer et revoir la lumière.",p:28,x:89,y:564,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Vous la voyez, Madame, et prête à vous cacher,",p:28,x:89,y:595,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Vous haïssez le jour que vous veniez chercher ?",p:28,x:89,y:627,w:520,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:28,x:89,y:679,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Noble et brillant auteur d'une triste famille,",p:28,x:89,y:730,w:470,h:26},
{t:"170. Toi, dont ma mère osait se vanter d'être fille,",p:28,x:89,y:762,w:550,h:26},
{t:"Qui peut-être rougis du trouble où tu me vois,",p:28,x:89,y:794,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Soleil, je te viens voir pour la dernière fois.",p:28,x:89,y:825,w:470,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:28,x:89,y:877,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Quoi ! vous ne perdrez point cette cruelle envie ?",p:28,x:89,y:929,w:536,h:26},
{t:"Vous verrai-je toujours, renonçant à la vie,",p:28,x:89,y:960,w:469,h:26},
{t:"Faire de votre mort les funestes apprêts ?",p:28,x:89,y:992,w:456,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:28,x:89,y:1044,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Dieux ! que ne suis-je assise à l'ombre des forêts !",p:28,x:89,y:1095,w:553,h:26},
{t:"Quand pourrai-je, au travers d'une noble poussière,",p:28,x:89,y:1127,w:565,h:26},
{t:"Suivre de l'oeil un char fuyant dans la carrière ?",p:28,x:89,y:1159,w:522,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:28,x:89,y:1210,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Quoi, Madame ?",p:28,x:89,y:1262,w:176,h:26},
{t:"26",p:29,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OENONE",p:29,x:94,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Dear gods, let tears be heard when heaven sent.",p:29,x:94,y:135,w:531,h:26},
{t:" PHAEDRE",p:29,x:94,y:187,w:110,h:26},
{t:"More than useless such embellishment.",p:29,x:94,y:239,w:427,h:26},
{t:"These veils oppress me, and the hair you’ve made",p:29,x:94,y:270,w:547,h:26},
{t:"160. in top-knots tortures me. I grow afraid",p:29,x:94,y:302,w:478,h:26},
{t:"of plots to hurt me and of threatened ills.",p:29,x:94,y:334,w:450,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:29,x:94,y:385,w:93,h:26},
{t:"You see: one order that another kills!",p:29,x:94,y:437,w:408,h:26},
{t:"What can these fingers finish if instead",p:29,x:94,y:469,w:422,h:26},
{t:"you snatch these decorations from your head?",p:29,x:94,y:500,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Yourself again, you ask to see the light,",p:29,x:94,y:532,w:432,h:26},
{t:"at once to show yourself, and then from sight",p:29,x:94,y:564,w:496,h:26},
{t:"you want to take yourself and only speak",p:29,x:94,y:595,w:448,h:26},
{t:"of hating that which you had come to seek.",p:29,x:94,y:627,w:473,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:29,x:94,y:679,w:103,h:26},
{t:"How sad that brilliant and noble family",p:29,x:94,y:730,w:420,h:26},
{t:"170 of whom my mother was so proud to be;",p:29,x:94,y:762,w:495,h:26},
{t:"they blush perhaps to see their troubled race:",p:29,x:94,y:794,w:500,h:26},
{t:"this is the last time, sun, I see your face.",p:29,x:94,y:825,w:448,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:29,x:94,y:877,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Give up, my lady, this macabre jest",p:29,x:94,y:929,w:389,h:26},
{t:"of life at first and then the final rest",p:29,x:94,y:960,w:389,h:26},
{t:"for which all preparations must be made.",p:29,x:94,y:992,w:447,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:29,x:94,y:1044,w:103,h:26},
{t:"Were I but were sitting in the forest shade",p:29,x:94,y:1095,w:462,h:26},
{t:"and saw that smoking dust as in its force",p:29,x:94,y:1127,w:447,h:26},
{t:"the chariot plumed and thundered on its course.",p:29,x:94,y:1159,w:526,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:29,x:94,y:1210,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Madam?",p:29,x:94,y:1262,w:90,h:26},
{t:"27",p:30,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:30,x:89,y:84,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Insensée, où suis-je ? et qu'ai-je dit ?",p:30,x:89,y:135,w:412,h:26},
{t:"180. Où laissé-je égarer mes voeux et mon esprit ?",p:30,x:89,y:167,w:561,h:26},
{t:"Je l'ai perdu : les Dieux m'en ont ravi l'usage.",p:30,x:89,y:199,w:500,h:26},
{t:"OEnone, la rougeur me couvre le visage :",p:30,x:89,y:230,w:453,h:26},
{t:"Je te laisse trop voir mes honteuses douleurs,",p:30,x:89,y:262,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Et mes yeux, malgré moi, se remplissent de pleurs.",p:30,x:89,y:294,w:562,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:30,x:89,y:345,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! s'il vous faut rougir, rougissez d'un silence",p:30,x:89,y:397,w:515,h:26},
{t:"Qui de vos maux encore aigrit la violence.",p:30,x:89,y:429,w:458,h:26},
{t:"Rebelle à tous nos soins, sourde à tous nos discours,",p:30,x:89,y:460,w:575,h:26},
{t:"Voulez-vous sans pitié laisser finir vos jours ?",p:30,x:89,y:492,w:496,h:26},
{t:"Qulle fureur les borne au milieu de leur course ?",p:30,x:89,y:524,w:525,h:26},
{t:"190. Quel charme ou quel poison en a tari la source ?",p:30,x:89,y:555,w:584,h:26},
{t:"Les ombres par trois fois ont obscurci les cieux",p:30,x:89,y:587,w:510,h:26},
{t:"Depuis que le sommeil n'est entré dans vos yeux ;",p:30,x:89,y:619,w:552,h:26},
{t:"Et le jour a trois fois chassé la nuit obscure",p:30,x:89,y:650,w:469,h:26},
{t:"Depuis que votre corps languit sans nourriture.",p:30,x:89,y:682,w:514,h:26},
{t:"A quel affreux dessein vous laissez-vous tenter ?",p:30,x:89,y:714,w:531,h:26},
{t:"De quel droit sur vous-même osez-vous attenter ?",p:30,x:89,y:745,w:549,h:26},
{t:"Vous offensez les Dieux auteurs de votre vie ;",p:30,x:89,y:777,w:502,h:26},
{t:"Vous trahissez l'époux à qui la foi vous lie ;",p:30,x:89,y:809,w:472,h:26},
{t:"Vous trahissez enfin vos enfants malheureux,",p:30,x:89,y:840,w:496,h:26},
{t:"200. Que vous précipitez sous un joug rigoureux.",p:30,x:89,y:872,w:537,h:26},
{t:"Songez qu'un même jour leur ravira leur mère,",p:30,x:89,y:904,w:514,h:26},
{t:"Et rendra l'espérance au fils de l'étrangère,",p:30,x:89,y:935,w:469,h:26},
{t:"A ce fier ennemi de vous, de votre sang,",p:30,x:89,y:967,w:442,h:26},
{t:"Ce fils qu'une Amazone a porté dans son flanc,",p:30,x:89,y:999,w:510,h:26},
{t:"Cet Hippolyte...",p:30,x:89,y:1030,w:170,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:30,x:89,y:1082,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Ah, dieux !",p:30,x:89,y:1134,w:118,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:30,x:89,y:1185,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Ce reproche vous touche.",p:30,x:89,y:1237,w:278,h:26},
{t:"28",p:31,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:31,x:94,y:84,w:103,h:26},
{t:"That’s madness. Where am I? What did I say",p:31,x:94,y:135,w:491,h:26},
{t:"180. that let my longing and my reason stray?",p:31,x:94,y:167,w:506,h:26},
{t:"My wits, the gods have granted for delight,",p:31,x:94,y:199,w:469,h:26},
{t:"Oenone, vanish, and at that shaming sight",p:31,x:94,y:230,w:463,h:26},
{t:"I blush, and show unwilling how grieving sears",p:31,x:94,y:262,w:509,h:26},
{t:"my mind, that eyes, despite me, fill with tears.",p:31,x:94,y:294,w:512,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:31,x:94,y:345,w:93,h:26},
{t:"If you must blush, then blush for your perverse,",p:31,x:94,y:377,w:525,h:26},
{t:"hard silence that must make the illness worse.",p:31,x:94,y:409,w:507,h:26},
{t:"Against our words, solicitudes and cares",p:31,x:94,y:440,w:438,h:26},
{t:"you’d put a needless end to your affairs?",p:31,x:94,y:472,w:444,h:26},
{t:"What fury halfway halts life’s natural course",p:31,x:94,y:504,w:478,h:26},
{t:"190. or as a poisonous charm dries up the source?",p:31,x:94,y:535,w:551,h:26},
{t:"Three times the shadows have obscured the skies",p:31,x:94,y:567,w:541,h:26},
{t:"since sleep has shuttered your exhausted eyes,",p:31,x:94,y:599,w:516,h:26},
{t:"three times has daylight to the darkness leant",p:31,x:94,y:630,w:502,h:26},
{t:"since your starved body took its nourishment.",p:31,x:94,y:662,w:500,h:26},
{t:"What lawless plan is there that you’d offend",p:31,x:94,y:694,w:477,h:26},
{t:"the right to live until a natural end,",p:31,x:94,y:725,w:382,h:26},
{t:"disparaging the gods that gave you life,",p:31,x:94,y:757,w:433,h:26},
{t:"the faith of Theseus to whom you’re wife?",p:31,x:94,y:789,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Abandoning your children, at a stroke,",p:31,x:94,y:820,w:418,h:26},
{t:"200. to servitude beneath a heavy yoke?",p:31,x:94,y:852,w:445,h:26},
{t:"Think: the day their mother’s life is done",p:31,x:94,y:884,w:444,h:26},
{t:"their hopes delight some other, stranger’s son,",p:31,x:94,y:915,w:511,h:26},
{t:"fierce enemy of yours, your line, one whom",p:31,x:94,y:947,w:475,h:26},
{t:"an Amazon has carried in her womb,",p:31,x:94,y:979,w:399,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus . . .",p:31,x:94,y:1010,w:161,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:31,x:94,y:1062,w:103,h:26},
{t:"Ah, Gods!",p:31,x:94,y:1114,w:106,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:31,x:94,y:1165,w:93,h:26},
{t:"That touches you.",p:31,x:94,y:1217,w:194,h:26},
{t:"29",p:32,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:32,x:89,y:84,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Malheureuse, quel nom est sorti de ta bouche ?",p:32,x:89,y:135,w:517,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:32,x:89,y:187,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Hé bien ! votre colère éclate avec raison :",p:32,x:89,y:239,w:456,h:26},
{t:"J'aime à vous voir frémir à ce funeste nom.",p:32,x:89,y:270,w:472,h:26},
{t:"Vivez donc. Que l'amour, le devoir vous excite,",p:32,x:89,y:302,w:513,h:26},
{t:"210. Vivez, ne souffrez pas que le fils d'une Scythe,",p:32,x:89,y:334,w:564,h:26},
{t:"Accablant vos enfants d'un empire odieux,",p:32,x:89,y:365,w:461,h:26},
{t:"Commande au plus beau sang de la Grèce et des Dieux.",p:32,x:89,y:397,w:611,h:26},
{t:"Mais ne différez point : chaque moment vous tue.",p:32,x:89,y:429,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Réparez promptement votre force abattue,",p:32,x:89,y:460,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Tandis que de vos jours, prêts à se consumer,",p:32,x:89,y:492,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Le flambeau dure encore, et peut se rallumer.",p:32,x:89,y:524,w:501,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:32,x:89,y:575,w:88,h:26},
{t:"J'en ai trop prolongé la coupable durée.",p:32,x:89,y:627,w:431,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:32,x:89,y:679,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Quoi ? de quel remords êtes-vous déchirée ?",p:32,x:89,y:730,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Quel crime a pu produire un trouble si pressant ?",p:32,x:89,y:762,w:535,h:26},
{t:"220. Vos mains n'ont point trempé dans le sang innocent ?",p:32,x:89,y:794,w:642,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:32,x:89,y:845,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Grâces au ciel, mes mains ne sont point criminelles.",p:32,x:89,y:897,w:566,h:26},
{t:"Plût aux Dieux que mon coeur fût innocent comme elles !",p:32,x:89,y:929,w:625,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:32,x:89,y:980,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Et quel affreux projet avez-vous enfanté,",p:32,x:89,y:1032,w:447,h:26},
{t:"Dont votre coeur encor doive être épouvanté ?",p:32,x:89,y:1064,w:509,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:32,x:89,y:1115,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Je t'en ai dit assez. Epargne-moi le reste.",p:32,x:89,y:1167,w:451,h:26},
{t:"Je meurs pour ne point faire un aveu si funeste.",p:32,x:89,y:1199,w:523,h:26},
{t:"30",p:33,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:33,x:94,y:84,w:103,h:26},
{t:"Wretch! Why must you let that name break through?",p:33,x:94,y:135,w:576,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:33,x:94,y:187,w:93,h:26},
{t:"I’m pleased that this at least makes you exclaim,",p:33,x:94,y:239,w:536,h:26},
{t:"that you can shudder at the dreadful name,",p:33,x:94,y:270,w:474,h:26},
{t:"and live, when love and duty will have won",p:33,x:94,y:302,w:469,h:26},
{t:"210. against the offspring of the Scythian one.",p:33,x:94,y:334,w:507,h:26},
{t:"Why bring the bloodline known as beautiful",p:33,x:94,y:365,w:471,h:26},
{t:"to Gods and Greece beneath an odious rule:",p:33,x:94,y:397,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Do not delay: each moment harms the hour",p:33,x:94,y:429,w:480,h:26},
{t:"when you can undo what the days devour,",p:33,x:94,y:460,w:464,h:26},
{t:"and so rekindle to its former fire",p:33,x:94,y:492,w:352,h:26},
{t:"a flame of life reluctant to expire.",p:33,x:94,y:524,w:364,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:33,x:94,y:575,w:103,h:26},
{t:"I have maintained this guilty flame too long.",p:33,x:94,y:627,w:484,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:33,x:94,y:679,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What terrors are there, or a sense of wrong",p:33,x:94,y:730,w:475,h:26},
{t:"that presses urgently in such a guilt?",p:33,x:94,y:762,w:402,h:26},
{t:"220. What innocent young blood can you have spilt?",p:33,x:94,y:794,w:570,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:33,x:94,y:845,w:103,h:26},
{t:"To the Heavens, thanks: my hands are clean,",p:33,x:94,y:897,w:495,h:26},
{t:"but would as equally my heart had been.",p:33,x:94,y:929,w:446,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:33,x:94,y:980,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What is the enterprise that you have bred",p:33,x:94,y:1032,w:456,h:26},
{t:"that even now calls up atrocious dread?",p:33,x:94,y:1064,w:432,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:33,x:94,y:1115,w:103,h:26},
{t:"To you I’ve said enough to spare the rest.",p:33,x:94,y:1167,w:457,h:26},
{t:"I’ll die before the other is confessed.",p:33,x:94,y:1199,w:399,h:26},
{t:"31",p:34,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OENONE",p:34,x:89,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Mourez donc, et gardez un silence inhumain ;",p:34,x:89,y:135,w:496,h:26},
{t:"Mais pour fermer vos yeux cherchez une autre main.",p:34,x:89,y:167,w:574,h:26},
{t:"Quoiqu'il vous reste à peine une faible lumière,",p:34,x:89,y:199,w:513,h:26},
{t:"230. Mon âme chez les morts descendra la première.",p:34,x:89,y:230,w:578,h:26},
{t:"Mille chemins ouverts y conduisent toujours,",p:34,x:89,y:262,w:485,h:26},
{t:"Et ma juste douleur choisira les plus courts.",p:34,x:89,y:294,w:477,h:26},
{t:"Cruelle, quand ma foi vous a-t-elle déçue ?",p:34,x:89,y:325,w:470,h:26},
{t:"Songez-vous qu'en naissant mes bras vous ont reçue ?",p:34,x:89,y:357,w:599,h:26},
{t:"Mon pays, mes enfants, pour vous j'ai tout quitté.",p:34,x:89,y:389,w:544,h:26},
{t:"Réserviez-vous ce prix à ma fidélité ?",p:34,x:89,y:420,w:407,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:34,x:89,y:472,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Quel fruit espères-tu de tant de violence ?",p:34,x:89,y:524,w:459,h:26},
{t:"Tu frémiras d'horreur si je romps le silence.",p:34,x:89,y:555,w:476,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:34,x:89,y:607,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Et que me direz-vous qui ne cède, grands Dieux !",p:34,x:89,y:659,w:540,h:26},
{t:"240. A l'horreur de vous voir expirer à mes yeux ?",p:34,x:89,y:690,w:549,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:34,x:89,y:742,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Quand tu sauras mon crime, et le sort qui m'accable,",p:34,x:89,y:794,w:579,h:26},
{t:"Je n'en mourrai pas moins, j'en mourrai plus coupable.",p:34,x:89,y:825,w:599,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:34,x:89,y:877,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Madame, au nom des pleurs que pour vous j'ai versés,",p:34,x:89,y:929,w:597,h:26},
{t:"Par vos faibles genoux que je tiens embrassés,",p:34,x:89,y:960,w:511,h:26},
{t:"Délivrez mon esprit de ce funeste doute.",p:34,x:89,y:992,w:442,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:34,x:89,y:1044,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Tu le veux. Lève-toi.",p:34,x:89,y:1095,w:224,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:34,x:89,y:1147,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Parlez : je vous écoute.",p:34,x:89,y:1199,w:257,h:26},
{t:"32",p:35,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OENONE",p:35,x:94,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Then leave that heartless secret where it lies",p:35,x:94,y:135,w:487,h:26},
{t:"but find some other hand to close your eyes,",p:35,x:94,y:167,w:489,h:26},
{t:"for well before that flickering light has fled",p:35,x:94,y:199,w:462,h:26},
{t:"230. I’ll go the way before you to the dead.",p:35,x:94,y:230,w:475,h:26},
{t:"A thousand ways are open, onward lead:",p:35,x:94,y:262,w:446,h:26},
{t:"in pain it is the shortest one I’ll heed.",p:35,x:94,y:294,w:408,h:26},
{t:"What cruelty is this, to doubt my worth,",p:35,x:94,y:325,w:435,h:26},
{t:"whose arms were open to you from your birth?",p:35,x:94,y:357,w:513,h:26},
{t:"I left my children, country, all for you:",p:35,x:94,y:389,w:419,h:26},
{t:"is this what faithfulness will do?",p:35,x:94,y:420,w:345,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:35,x:94,y:472,w:103,h:26},
{t:"What can you hope from it, to rant and scold?",p:35,x:94,y:524,w:501,h:26},
{t:"far worse would be your outrage were it told.",p:35,x:94,y:555,w:492,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:35,x:94,y:607,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What could be worse than this? Before my eyes",p:35,x:94,y:659,w:519,h:26},
{t:"240. in horror one who’s dearest to me dies.",p:35,x:94,y:690,w:485,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:35,x:94,y:742,w:103,h:26},
{t:"When you have learnt my crime, my fateful shame,",p:35,x:94,y:794,w:561,h:26},
{t:"I’d die no less but with a worthless name.",p:35,x:94,y:825,w:456,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:35,x:94,y:877,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Madam, for all the tears I spilled for you,",p:35,x:94,y:929,w:447,h:26},
{t:"who clasps your knees and knows not what to do,",p:35,x:94,y:960,w:543,h:26},
{t:"give up the guilty secret that you hold.",p:35,x:94,y:992,w:424,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:35,x:94,y:1044,w:103,h:26},
{t:"You truly ask? Get up.",p:35,x:94,y:1095,w:242,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:35,x:94,y:1147,w:93,h:26},
{t:"I will be told.",p:35,x:94,y:1199,w:142,h:26},
{t:"33",p:36,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:36,x:89,y:84,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Ciel! que vais-je lui dire ? Et par où commencer ?",p:36,x:89,y:135,w:539,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:36,x:89,y:187,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Par de vaines frayeurs cessez de m'offenser.",p:36,x:89,y:239,w:485,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:36,x:89,y:290,w:88,h:26},
{t:"O haine de Vénus ! O fatale colère !",p:36,x:89,y:342,w:389,h:26},
{t:"250. Dans quels égarements l'amour jeta ma mère !",p:36,x:89,y:374,w:572,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:36,x:89,y:425,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Oublions-les, Madame. Et qu'à tout l'avenir",p:36,x:89,y:477,w:471,h:26},
{t:"Un silence éternel cache ce souvenir.",p:36,x:89,y:509,w:404,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:36,x:89,y:560,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Ariane, ma soeur ! de quel amour blessée,",p:36,x:89,y:612,w:463,h:26},
{t:"Vous mourûtes aux bords où vous fûtes laissée !",p:36,x:89,y:644,w:530,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:36,x:89,y:695,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Que faites-vous, Madame ? Et quel mortel ennui",p:36,x:89,y:747,w:526,h:26},
{t:"Contre tout votre sang vous anime aujourd'hui ?",p:36,x:89,y:779,w:528,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:36,x:89,y:830,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Puisque Vénus le veut, de ce sang déplorable",p:36,x:89,y:882,w:492,h:26},
{t:"Je péris la dernière, et la plus misérable.",p:36,x:89,y:914,w:443,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:36,x:89,y:965,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Aimez-vous ?",p:36,x:89,y:1017,w:146,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:36,x:89,y:1069,w:88,h:26},
{t:"De l'amour j'ai toutes les fureurs.",p:36,x:89,y:1120,w:365,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:36,x:89,y:1172,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Pour qui ?",p:36,x:89,y:1224,w:109,h:26},
{t:"34",p:37,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:37,x:94,y:84,w:103,h:26},
{t:"What can I say to her, and  how begin?",p:37,x:94,y:135,w:428,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:37,x:94,y:187,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What will these needless apprehensions win?",p:37,x:94,y:239,w:488,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:37,x:94,y:290,w:103,h:26},
{t:"The hate of Venus and her angry thoughts",p:37,x:94,y:342,w:460,h:26},
{t:"250. that threw my mother into loathsome sports.",p:37,x:94,y:374,w:547,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:37,x:94,y:425,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Let us forget them, Madam, and agree",p:37,x:94,y:477,w:420,h:26},
{t:"to let eternal silence hide that memory.",p:37,x:94,y:509,w:431,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:37,x:94,y:560,w:103,h:26},
{t:"Ariadne also, even more,",p:37,x:94,y:612,w:273,h:26},
{t:"was left to perish on that barren shore.",p:37,x:94,y:644,w:427,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:37,x:94,y:695,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What irksome boredom will extend its sway",p:37,x:94,y:747,w:474,h:26},
{t:"that you complain against your blood today?",p:37,x:94,y:779,w:484,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:37,x:94,y:830,w:103,h:26},
{t:"Since Venus wills it, by that blood unblest,",p:37,x:94,y:882,w:463,h:26},
{t:"I perish now, the last and wretchedest.",p:37,x:94,y:914,w:426,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:37,x:94,y:965,w:93,h:26},
{t:"In love?",p:37,x:94,y:1017,w:87,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:37,x:94,y:1069,w:103,h:26},
{t:"Such are the furies that I feel.",p:37,x:94,y:1120,w:328,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:37,x:94,y:1172,w:93,h:26},
{t:"With whom?",p:37,x:94,y:1224,w:134,h:26},
{t:"35",p:38,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:38,x:89,y:84,w:88,h:26},
{t:"260. Tu vas ouïr le comble des horreurs.",p:38,x:89,y:135,w:442,h:26},
{t:"J'aime... A ce nom fatal, je tremble, je frissonne.",p:38,x:89,y:167,w:535,h:26},
{t:"J'aime...",p:38,x:89,y:199,w:92,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:38,x:89,y:250,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Qui ?",p:38,x:89,y:302,w:55,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:38,x:89,y:354,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Tu connais ce fils de l'Amazone,",p:38,x:89,y:405,w:347,h:26},
{t:"Ce prince si longtemps par moi-même opprimé ?",p:38,x:89,y:437,w:533,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:38,x:89,y:489,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte ! Grands Dieux !",p:38,x:89,y:540,w:289,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:38,x:89,y:592,w:88,h:26},
{t:"C'est toi qui l'as nommé.",p:38,x:89,y:644,w:270,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:38,x:89,y:695,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Juste ciel ! tout mon sang dans mes veines se glace.",p:38,x:89,y:747,w:573,h:26},
{t:"O désespoir ! ô crime ! ô déplorable race !",p:38,x:89,y:779,w:461,h:26},
{t:"Voyage infortuné ! Rivage malheureux,",p:38,x:89,y:810,w:426,h:26},
{t:"Fallait-il approcher de tes bords dangereux ?",p:38,x:89,y:842,w:487,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:38,x:89,y:894,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Mon mal vient de plus loin. A peine au fils d'Egée",p:38,x:89,y:945,w:535,h:26},
{t:"270. Sous les lois de l'hymen je m'étais engagée,",p:38,x:89,y:977,w:540,h:26},
{t:"Mon repos, mon bonheur semblait s'être affermi,",p:38,x:89,y:1009,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Athènes me montra mon superbe ennemi.",p:38,x:89,y:1040,w:460,h:26},
{t:"Je le vis, je rougis, je pâlis à sa vue ;",p:38,x:89,y:1072,w:406,h:26},
{t:"Un trouble s'éleva dans mon âme éperdue ;",p:38,x:89,y:1104,w:478,h:26},
{t:"Mes yeux ne voyaient plus, je ne pouvais parler ;",p:38,x:89,y:1135,w:537,h:26},
{t:"Je sentis tout mon corps et transir et brûler.",p:38,x:89,y:1167,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Je reconnus Vénus et ses feux redoutables,",p:38,x:89,y:1199,w:472,h:26},
{t:"D'un sang qu'elle poursuit tourments inévitables.",p:38,x:89,y:1230,w:534,h:26},
{t:"36",p:39,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:39,x:94,y:84,w:103,h:26},
{t:"260. You’ll hear such horrors, hardly real,",p:39,x:94,y:135,w:454,h:26},
{t:"but still I tremble to pronounce the name,",p:39,x:94,y:167,w:458,h:26},
{t:"I love . . .",p:39,x:94,y:199,w:108,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:39,x:94,y:250,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Who?",p:39,x:94,y:302,w:59,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:39,x:94,y:354,w:103,h:26},
{t:"The prince that I for shame",p:39,x:94,y:405,w:298,h:26},
{t:"have long oppressed, son of the Amazon.",p:39,x:94,y:437,w:451,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:39,x:94,y:489,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus!",p:39,x:94,y:540,w:123,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:39,x:94,y:592,w:103,h:26},
{t:"From you the name has gone.",p:39,x:94,y:644,w:328,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:39,x:94,y:695,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Dear gods! the blood is frozen in my face.",p:39,x:94,y:747,w:457,h:26},
{t:"How sad and criminal that wretched race!",p:39,x:94,y:779,w:453,h:26},
{t:"A land and journey cursed! Where was the cause",p:39,x:94,y:810,w:532,h:26},
{t:"to ever venture to such dangerous shores?",p:39,x:94,y:842,w:466,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:39,x:94,y:894,w:103,h:26},
{t:"My ill goes further back, but was begun",p:39,x:94,y:945,w:431,h:26},
{t:"270. once more in wedding vows to Aegeus' son.",p:39,x:94,y:977,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Fulfilled in happiness a bride should know,",p:39,x:94,y:1009,w:461,h:26},
{t:"I met in Athens my contemptuous foe.",p:39,x:94,y:1040,w:420,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus I saw, and blushed, grew pale,",p:39,x:94,y:1072,w:457,h:26},
{t:"felt soul in agitation rise and fail.",p:39,x:94,y:1104,w:358,h:26},
{t:"My veins ran fire and ice, and that physique",p:39,x:94,y:1135,w:479,h:26},
{t:"rained daylight at me, and I could not speak,",p:39,x:94,y:1167,w:492,h:26},
{t:"but saw then Venus in her full-clothed fire",p:39,x:94,y:1199,w:457,h:26},
{t:"to goad the blood she loathes with fierce desire.",p:39,x:94,y:1230,w:525,h:26},
{t:"37",p:40,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Par des voeux assidus je crus les détourner :",p:40,x:89,y:84,w:490,h:26},
{t:"280. Je lui bâtis un temple, et pris soin de l'orner ;",p:40,x:89,y:115,w:554,h:26},
{t:"De victimes moi-même à toute heure entourée,",p:40,x:89,y:147,w:518,h:26},
{t:"Je cherchais dans leurs flancs ma raison égarée,",p:40,x:89,y:179,w:526,h:26},
{t:"D'un incurable amour remèdes impuissants !",p:40,x:89,y:210,w:488,h:26},
{t:"En vain sur les autels ma main brûlait l'encens :",p:40,x:89,y:242,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Quand ma bouche implorait le nom de la Déesse,",p:40,x:89,y:274,w:537,h:26},
{t:"J'adorais Hippolyte ; et le voyant sans cesse,",p:40,x:89,y:305,w:490,h:26},
{t:"Même au pied des autels que je faisais fumer,",p:40,x:89,y:337,w:501,h:26},
{t:"J'offrais tout à ce Dieu que je n'osais nommer.",p:40,x:89,y:369,w:507,h:26},
{t:"Je l'évitais partout. O comble de misère !",p:40,x:89,y:400,w:448,h:26},
{t:"290. Mes yeux le retrouvaient dans les traits de son père.",p:40,x:89,y:432,w:628,h:26},
{t:"Contre moi-même enfin j'osai me révolter :",p:40,x:89,y:464,w:475,h:26},
{t:"J'excitai mon courage à le persécuter.",p:40,x:89,y:495,w:413,h:26},
{t:"Pour bannir l'ennemi dont j'étais idolâtre,",p:40,x:89,y:527,w:451,h:26},
{t:"J'affectai les chagrins d'une injuste marâtre ;",p:40,x:89,y:559,w:491,h:26},
{t:"Je pressai son exil, et mes cris éternels",p:40,x:89,y:590,w:427,h:26},
{t:"L'arrachèrent du sein et des bras paternels.",p:40,x:89,y:622,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Je respirais OEnone, et depuis son absence,",p:40,x:89,y:654,w:478,h:26},
{t:"Mes jours moins agités coulaient dans l'innocence.",p:40,x:89,y:685,w:549,h:26},
{t:"Soumise à mon époux, et cachant mes ennuis,",p:40,x:89,y:717,w:509,h:26},
{t:"300. De son fatal hymen je cultivais les fruits.",p:40,x:89,y:749,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Vaine précautions ! Cruelle destinée !",p:40,x:89,y:780,w:407,h:26},
{t:"Par mon époux lui-même à Trézène amenée,",p:40,x:89,y:812,w:490,h:26},
{t:"J'ai revu l'ennemi que j'avais éloigné :",p:40,x:89,y:844,w:417,h:26},
{t:"Ma blessure trop vive a aussitôt saigné,",p:40,x:89,y:875,w:432,h:26},
{t:"Ce n'est plus une ardeur dans mes veines cachée :",p:40,x:89,y:907,w:554,h:26},
{t:"C'est Vénus tout entière à sa proie attachée.",p:40,x:89,y:939,w:484,h:26},
{t:"J'ai conçu pour mon crime une juste terreur ;",p:40,x:89,y:970,w:495,h:26},
{t:"J'ai pris la vie en haine, et ma flamme en horreur.",p:40,x:89,y:1002,w:546,h:26},
{t:"Je voulais en mourant prendre soin de ma gloire;",p:40,x:89,y:1034,w:537,h:26},
{t:"310. Et dérober au jour une flamme si noire :",p:40,x:89,y:1065,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Je n'ai pu soutenir tes larmes, tes combats ;",p:40,x:89,y:1097,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Je t'ai tout avoué ; je ne m'en repens pas,",p:40,x:89,y:1129,w:462,h:26},
{t:"Pourvu que de ma mort respectant les approches,",p:40,x:89,y:1160,w:545,h:26},
{t:"Tu ne m'affliges plus par d'injustes reproches,",p:40,x:89,y:1192,w:502,h:26},
{t:"Et que tes vains secours cessent de rappeler",p:40,x:89,y:1224,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Un reste de chaleur tout prêt à s'exhaler.",p:40,x:89,y:1255,w:448,h:26},
{t:"38",p:41,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"I vowed and feverishly to make abate",p:41,x:94,y:84,w:411,h:26},
{t:"280. those fires and build an altar, decorate",p:41,x:94,y:115,w:479,h:26},
{t:"it constantly with victims, delve and try",p:41,x:94,y:147,w:430,h:26},
{t:"to find within their entails reasons why:",p:41,x:94,y:179,w:433,h:26},
{t:"Incurable I was, and at her shrine",p:41,x:94,y:210,w:370,h:26},
{t:"burned incense powerless at love like mine.",p:41,x:94,y:242,w:475,h:26},
{t:"What promises I made, what oaths I swore,",p:41,x:94,y:274,w:478,h:26},
{t:"but felt Hippolytus there all the more.",p:41,x:94,y:305,w:411,h:26},
{t:"The steps of that high altar there in flame",p:41,x:94,y:337,w:454,h:26},
{t:"saw offerings to one I could not name.",p:41,x:94,y:369,w:421,h:26},
{t:"I fled him everywhere, but in disgrace",p:41,x:94,y:400,w:415,h:26},
{t:"290. must recognize him in his father’s face.",p:41,x:94,y:432,w:485,h:26},
{t:"At last I summoned up my courage, strove",p:41,x:94,y:464,w:467,h:26},
{t:"to make the god I worshipped one to loathe,",p:41,x:94,y:495,w:486,h:26},
{t:"and as the second bride took on my right",p:41,x:94,y:527,w:449,h:26},
{t:"to send the first’s cursed offspring from my sight.",p:41,x:94,y:559,w:541,h:26},
{t:"Far from his paternal arms I sent",p:41,x:94,y:590,w:361,h:26},
{t:"by long complaints his soul to banishment.",p:41,x:94,y:622,w:466,h:26},
{t:"I breathed again, Oenone: with him hence",p:41,x:94,y:654,w:462,h:26},
{t:"my days flowed easily in innocence.",p:41,x:94,y:685,w:390,h:26},
{t:"I clung to Theseus and against the wild",p:41,x:94,y:717,w:428,h:26},
{t:"300. heart’s prompting bore to him in time a child.",p:41,x:94,y:749,w:553,h:26},
{t:"How cruel and vain that was, my spouse moved court,",p:41,x:94,y:780,w:593,h:26},
{t:"unwillingly to Troezen I was brought.",p:41,x:94,y:812,w:404,h:26},
{t:"I saw my exiled enemy and knew",p:41,x:94,y:844,w:364,h:26},
{t:"the unhealed wound would start to bleed anew.",p:41,x:94,y:875,w:517,h:26},
{t:"No longer in my veins was love at bay",p:41,x:94,y:907,w:415,h:26},
{t:"but Venus wholly fastened on her prey.",p:41,x:94,y:939,w:428,h:26},
{t:"I see how criminal is this foul state;",p:41,x:94,y:970,w:390,h:26},
{t:"both life and passion I abominate.",p:41,x:94,y:1002,w:372,h:26},
{t:"Death, I told myself, would keep my name",p:41,x:94,y:1034,w:466,h:26},
{t:"310. unbesmirched from such a blackening flame.",p:41,x:94,y:1065,w:544,h:26},
{t:"But with your tears and constant fret",p:41,x:94,y:1097,w:402,h:26},
{t:"I’ve made confession, which I’ll not regret",p:41,x:94,y:1129,w:458,h:26},
{t:"if you, in seeing now my death approach",p:41,x:94,y:1160,w:443,h:26},
{t:"bring no more questions on me or reproach.",p:41,x:94,y:1192,w:482,h:26},
{t:"No more, I beg of you, to fan that fire",p:41,x:94,y:1224,w:414,h:26},
{t:"which lingers in me only to expire.",p:41,x:94,y:1255,w:375,h:26},
{t:"39",p:42,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Scène 4",p:42,x:89,y:94,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phèdre, Oenone, Panope",p:42,x:89,y:141,w:313,h:30},
{t:"PANOPE",p:42,x:89,y:194,w:87,h:26},
{t:"Je voudrais vous cacher une triste nouvelle,",p:42,x:89,y:245,w:477,h:26},
{t:"Madame ; mais il faut que je vous la révèle.",p:42,x:89,y:277,w:480,h:26},
{t:"La mort vous a ravi votre invincible époux,",p:42,x:89,y:309,w:466,h:26},
{t:"320. Et ce malheur n'est plus ignoré que de vous.",p:42,x:89,y:340,w:542,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:42,x:89,y:392,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Panope, que dis-tu ?",p:42,x:89,y:444,w:224,h:26},
{t:"PANOPE",p:42,x:89,y:495,w:87,h:26},
{t:"Que la Reine abusée",p:42,x:89,y:547,w:222,h:26},
{t:"En vain demande au ciel le retour de Thésée,",p:42,x:89,y:579,w:492,h:26},
{t:"Et que par des vaisseaux arrivés dans le port",p:42,x:89,y:610,w:491,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte son fils vient d'apprendre sa mort.",p:42,x:89,y:642,w:485,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:42,x:89,y:694,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Ciel !",p:42,x:89,y:745,w:55,h:26},
{t:"PANOPE",p:42,x:89,y:797,w:87,h:26},
{t:"Pour le choix d'un maître Athènes se partage.",p:42,x:89,y:849,w:498,h:26},
{t:"Au Prince votre fils l'un donne son suffrage,",p:42,x:89,y:880,w:475,h:26},
{t:"Madame ; et de l'Etat l'autre oubliant les lois,",p:42,x:89,y:912,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Au fils de l'étrangère ose donner sa voix.",p:42,x:89,y:944,w:446,h:26},
{t:"On dit même qu'au trône une brigue insolente",p:42,x:89,y:975,w:503,h:26},
{t:"330. Veut placer Aricie et le sang de Pallante.",p:42,x:89,y:1007,w:496,h:26},
{t:"J'ai cru de ce péril devoir vous avertir.",p:42,x:89,y:1039,w:417,h:26},
{t:"Déjà même Hippolyte est tout prêt à partir ;",p:42,x:89,y:1070,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Et l'on craint, s'il paraît dans ce nouvel orage,",p:42,x:89,y:1102,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Qu'il n'entraîne après lui tout un peuple volage.",p:42,x:89,y:1134,w:518,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:42,x:89,y:1185,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Panope, c'est assez. La Reine, qui t'entend,",p:42,x:89,y:1237,w:473,h:26},
{t:"Ne négligera point cet avis important.",p:42,x:89,y:1269,w:411,h:26},
{t:"40",p:43,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Scene 4",p:43,x:94,y:84,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Phaedre, Oenone, Panope",p:43,x:94,y:147,w:281,h:26},
{t:"PANOPE",p:43,x:94,y:199,w:87,h:26},
{t:"I would I had some kinder way to choose",p:43,x:94,y:250,w:450,h:26},
{t:"to give you, Madam, such distressing news.",p:43,x:94,y:282,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Theseus the invincible has passed.",p:43,x:94,y:314,w:376,h:26},
{t:"320. Of all of us who know this, you are last.",p:43,x:94,y:345,w:489,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:43,x:94,y:397,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Panope, what’s that?",p:43,x:94,y:449,w:227,h:26},
{t:"PANOPE",p:43,x:94,y:500,w:87,h:26},
{t:"In vain the queen",p:43,x:94,y:552,w:192,h:26},
{t:"implores the heavens again the king be seen.",p:43,x:94,y:584,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus from sailors at our port",p:43,x:94,y:615,w:375,h:26},
{t:"has learned this latest, sad report.",p:43,x:94,y:647,w:376,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:43,x:94,y:699,w:103,h:26},
{t:"Dear gods!",p:43,x:94,y:750,w:119,h:26},
{t:"PANOPE",p:43,x:94,y:802,w:87,h:26},
{t:"For king the Athenians have begun",p:43,x:94,y:854,w:380,h:26},
{t:"to weigh Hippolytus against your son.",p:43,x:94,y:885,w:411,h:26},
{t:"Others against the laws have raised their voice",p:43,x:94,y:917,w:510,h:26},
{t:"and a for a stranger with us make their choice.",p:43,x:94,y:949,w:511,h:26},
{t:"One for Pallantides has made known",p:43,x:94,y:980,w:397,h:26},
{t:"330. his choice of young Aricia on the throne.",p:43,x:94,y:1012,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Such the perils which you ought to know",p:43,x:94,y:1044,w:443,h:26},
{t:"as now Hippolytus makes haste to go,",p:43,x:94,y:1075,w:414,h:26},
{t:"and with this sudden turmoil, on a whim,",p:43,x:94,y:1107,w:448,h:26},
{t:"who know? the populace may follow him.",p:43,x:94,y:1139,w:449,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:43,x:94,y:1190,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Panope, enough: the queen has heard",p:43,x:94,y:1242,w:416,h:26},
{t:"and will reflect upon each fateful word.",p:43,x:94,y:1274,w:424,h:26},
{t:"41",p:44,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Scène 5",p:44,x:89,y:94,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phèdre, Oenone",p:44,x:89,y:141,w:202,h:30},
{t:"OENONE",p:44,x:89,y:194,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Madame, je cessais de vous presser de vivre ;",p:44,x:89,y:245,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Déjà même au tombeau je songeais à vous suivre ;",p:44,x:89,y:277,w:562,h:26},
{t:"Pour vous en détourner je n'avais plus de vois ;",p:44,x:89,y:309,w:520,h:26},
{t:"340. Mais ce nouveau malheur vous prescrit d'autres lois.",p:44,x:89,y:340,w:628,h:26},
{t:"Votre fortune change et prend une autre face :",p:44,x:89,y:372,w:510,h:26},
{t:"Le Roi n'est plus. Madame, il faut prendre sa place.",p:44,x:89,y:404,w:559,h:26},
{t:"Sa mort vous laisse un fils à qui vous vous devez,",p:44,x:89,y:435,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Esclave s'il vous perd, et roi si vous vivez.",p:44,x:89,y:467,w:459,h:26},
{t:"Sur qui, dans son malheur, voulez-vous qu'il s'appuie ?",p:44,x:89,y:499,w:602,h:26},
{t:"Ses larmes n'auront plus de main qui les essuie ;",p:44,x:89,y:530,w:536,h:26},
{t:"Et ses cris innocents, portés jusques aux Dieux,",p:44,x:89,y:562,w:520,h:26},
{t:"Iront contre sa mère irriter ses aïeux.",p:44,x:89,y:594,w:410,h:26},
{t:"Vivez, vous n'avez plus de reproche à vous faire :",p:44,x:89,y:625,w:542,h:26},
{t:"350. Votre flamme devient une flamme ordinaire.",p:44,x:89,y:657,w:540,h:26},
{t:"Thésée en expirant vient de rompre les noeuds",p:44,x:89,y:689,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Qui faisaient tout le crime et l'horreur de vos feux.",p:44,x:89,y:720,w:551,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte pour vous devient moins redoutable,",p:44,x:89,y:752,w:510,h:26},
{t:"Et vous pouvez le voir sans vous rendre coupable.",p:44,x:89,y:784,w:546,h:26},
{t:"Peut-être convaincu de votre aversion,",p:44,x:89,y:815,w:421,h:26},
{t:"Il va donner un chef à la sédition.",p:44,x:89,y:847,w:367,h:26},
{t:"Détrompez son erreur, fléchissez son courage.",p:44,x:89,y:879,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Roi de ces bords heureux, Trézène est son partage ;",p:44,x:89,y:910,w:572,h:26},
{t:"Mais il sait que les lois donnent à votre fils",p:44,x:89,y:942,w:462,h:26},
{t:"360. Les superbes remparts que Minerve a bâtis.",p:44,x:89,y:974,w:533,h:26},
{t:"Vous avez l'un et l'autre une juste ennemie :",p:44,x:89,y:1005,w:489,h:26},
{t:"Unissez-vous tous deux pour combattre Aricie.",p:44,x:89,y:1037,w:508,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:44,x:89,y:1089,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Hé bien ! à tes conseils je me laisse entraîner.",p:44,x:89,y:1140,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Vivons, si vers la vie on peut me ramener,",p:44,x:89,y:1172,w:462,h:26},
{t:"Et si l'amour d'un fils en ce moment funeste",p:44,x:89,y:1204,w:481,h:26},
{t:"De mes faibles esprits peut ranimer le reste.",p:44,x:89,y:1235,w:485,h:26},
{t:"42",p:45,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Scene 5",p:45,x:94,y:84,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Phaedre, Oenone",p:45,x:94,y:135,w:186,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:45,x:94,y:187,w:93,h:26},
{t:"In truth I had not thought to save",p:45,x:94,y:239,w:370,h:26},
{t:"you, Madam, but to follow to the grave.",p:45,x:94,y:270,w:434,h:26},
{t:"I did not think such words of mine had force",p:45,x:94,y:302,w:483,h:26},
{t:"340. but these disasters urge another course.",p:45,x:94,y:334,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Your fortunes change and show another face.",p:45,x:94,y:365,w:495,h:26},
{t:"The king is dead and you assume his place.",p:45,x:94,y:397,w:474,h:26},
{t:"The situation of your son is grave.",p:45,x:94,y:429,w:372,h:26},
{t:"If you abandon him, he is a slave.",p:45,x:94,y:460,w:372,h:26},
{t:"On whom in his misfortunes can he lean,",p:45,x:94,y:492,w:446,h:26},
{t:"what hand but yours to dry where tears have been?",p:45,x:94,y:524,w:564,h:26},
{t:"His cry goes to the heavens, and implores",p:45,x:94,y:555,w:458,h:26},
{t:"his mother not insult her ancestors.",p:45,x:94,y:587,w:389,h:26},
{t:"Live, and let no actions curse her name",p:45,x:94,y:619,w:430,h:26},
{t:"350. whose love may burn now with a natural flame.",p:45,x:94,y:650,w:574,h:26},
{t:"Theseus is dead. That death unties",p:45,x:94,y:682,w:379,h:26},
{t:"you from the infamy of painful lies.",p:45,x:94,y:714,w:383,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus is but a man, no more,",p:45,x:94,y:745,w:372,h:26},
{t:"and not some guilty longing as before.",p:45,x:94,y:777,w:420,h:26},
{t:"Aware of only enmity he may",p:45,x:94,y:809,w:319,h:26},
{t:"become the leader of the rebel fray.",p:45,x:94,y:840,w:393,h:26},
{t:"Disabuse him, bend his courage, say",p:45,x:94,y:872,w:400,h:26},
{t:"that Troezen, all it has, are his today,",p:45,x:94,y:904,w:410,h:26},
{t:"but to your son belongs, as he knows well,",p:45,x:94,y:935,w:465,h:26},
{t:"360. the walls Minerva built as citadel.",p:45,x:94,y:967,w:418,h:26},
{t:"You have one enemy. You should unite",p:45,x:94,y:999,w:424,h:26},
{t:"against Aricia: it’s her you fight.",p:45,x:94,y:1030,w:350,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:45,x:94,y:1082,w:103,h:26},
{t:"So be it. By your counsels I’ll be led.",p:45,x:94,y:1134,w:400,h:26},
{t:"I’ll live, if only summoned from the dead.",p:45,x:94,y:1165,w:452,h:26},
{t:"The love for my own son revives the power",p:45,x:94,y:1197,w:470,h:26},
{t:"that may be needed in this crucial hour.",p:45,x:94,y:1229,w:435,h:26},
{t:"43",p:46,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ACTE DEUXIEME",p:46,x:89,y:121,w:236,h:37},
{t:"Scène 1",p:46,x:89,y:214,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Aricie, Ismène",p:46,x:89,y:277,w:169,h:30},
{t:"ARICIE",p:46,x:89,y:330,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte demande à me voir en ce lieu ?",p:46,x:89,y:382,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte me cherche et veut me dire adieu ?",p:46,x:89,y:414,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Ismène, dis-tu vrai ? N'es-tu point abusée ?",p:46,x:89,y:445,w:479,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:46,x:89,y:497,w:85,h:26},
{t:"370. C'est le premier effet de la mort de Thésée.",p:46,x:89,y:549,w:531,h:26},
{t:"Préparez-vous, Madame, à voir de tous côtés",p:46,x:89,y:580,w:492,h:26},
{t:"Voler vers vous les coeurs par Thésée écartés.",p:46,x:89,y:612,w:506,h:26},
{t:"Aricie à la fin de son sort est maîtresse,",p:46,x:89,y:644,w:432,h:26},
{t:"Et bientôt à ses pieds verra toute la Grèce.",p:46,x:89,y:675,w:467,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:46,x:89,y:727,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Ce n'est donc point, Ismène, un bruit mal affermi ?",p:46,x:89,y:779,w:558,h:26},
{t:"Je cesse d'être esclave, et n'ai plus d'ennemi ?",p:46,x:89,y:810,w:508,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:46,x:89,y:862,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Non, Madame. les Dieux ne vous sont plus contraires,",p:46,x:89,y:914,w:587,h:26},
{t:"Et Thésée a rejoint les mânes de vos frères.",p:46,x:89,y:945,w:478,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:46,x:89,y:997,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Dit-on quelle aventure a terminé ses jours ?.",p:46,x:89,y:1049,w:488,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:46,x:89,y:1100,w:85,h:26},
{t:"380. On sème de sa mort d'incroyables discours.",p:46,x:89,y:1152,w:532,h:26},
{t:"On dit que ravisseur d'une amante nouvelle",p:46,x:89,y:1184,w:475,h:26},
{t:"Les flots ont englouti cet époux infidèle.",p:46,x:89,y:1215,w:435,h:26},
{t:"44",p:47,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:" ACT TWO",p:47,x:94,y:121,w:149,h:37},
{t:"Scene 1",p:47,x:94,y:214,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Aricia, Ismene",p:47,x:94,y:277,w:169,h:30},
{t:"ARICIA",p:47,x:94,y:330,w:77,h:26},
{t:"He’s come to take a formal leave of me,",p:47,x:94,y:382,w:436,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus, you say? But why, why me?",p:47,x:94,y:414,w:434,h:26},
{t:"I think, Ismene, you have lost your head.",p:47,x:94,y:445,w:453,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:47,x:94,y:497,w:85,h:26},
{t:"370. It is the consequence of Theseus dead,",p:47,x:94,y:549,w:481,h:26},
{t:"when soon must come to you, from every side,",p:47,x:94,y:580,w:514,h:26},
{t:"the thronging hearts that Theseus denied.",p:47,x:94,y:612,w:457,h:26},
{t:"Aricia, a mistress of her fate",p:47,x:94,y:644,w:308,h:26},
{t:"and Greece in homage to her new-found state.",p:47,x:94,y:675,w:510,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:47,x:94,y:727,w:77,h:26},
{t:"It’s true, you think? That rumour promises",p:47,x:94,y:779,w:464,h:26},
{t:"an end to slavery and enemies?",p:47,x:94,y:810,w:346,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:47,x:94,y:862,w:85,h:26},
{t:"The Gods incline to you, and Theseus posts",p:47,x:94,y:914,w:472,h:26},
{t:"no more than shade to join your brothers’ ghosts.",p:47,x:94,y:945,w:543,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:47,x:94,y:997,w:77,h:26},
{t:"What wild adventure cut his boisterous thread?",p:47,x:94,y:1049,w:513,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:47,x:94,y:1100,w:85,h:26},
{t:"380. Such nonsense goes the rounds. It’s said",p:47,x:94,y:1152,w:503,h:26},
{t:"when set on some new enterprise or wife",p:47,x:94,y:1184,w:448,h:26},
{t:"the waters closed about that reckless life.",p:47,x:94,y:1215,w:453,h:26},
{t:"45",p:48,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"On dit même, et ce bruit est partout répandu,",p:48,x:89,y:84,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Qu'avec Pirithoüs aux enfers descendu,",p:48,x:89,y:115,w:428,h:26},
{t:"Il a vu le Cocyte et les rivages sombres,",p:48,x:89,y:147,w:437,h:26},
{t:"Et s'est montré vivant aux infernales ombres ;",p:48,x:89,y:179,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Mais qu'il n'a pu sortir de ce triste séjour,",p:48,x:89,y:210,w:453,h:26},
{t:"Et repasser les bords qu'on passe sans retour.",p:48,x:89,y:242,w:504,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:48,x:89,y:294,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Croirai-je qu'un mortel avant sa dernière heure",p:48,x:89,y:345,w:516,h:26},
{t:"390. Peut pénétrer des morts la profonde demeure ?",p:48,x:89,y:377,w:574,h:26},
{t:"Quel charme l'attirait sur ces bords redoutés ?",p:48,x:89,y:409,w:504,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:48,x:89,y:460,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Thésée est mort, Madame, et vous seule en doutez :",p:48,x:89,y:512,w:574,h:26},
{t:"Athènes en gémit, Trézène en est instruite,",p:48,x:89,y:544,w:472,h:26},
{t:"Et déjà pour son roi reconnaît Hippolyte.",p:48,x:89,y:575,w:441,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre, dans ce palais, tremblante pour son fils,",p:48,x:89,y:607,w:526,h:26},
{t:"De ses amis troublés demande les avis.",p:48,x:89,y:639,w:430,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:48,x:89,y:690,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Et tu crois que pour moi plus humain que son père,",p:48,x:89,y:742,w:560,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte rendra ma chaîne plus légère ?",p:48,x:89,y:774,w:447,h:26},
{t:"Qu'il plaindra mes malheurs ?",p:48,x:89,y:805,w:324,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:48,x:89,y:857,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Madame, je le croi.",p:48,x:89,y:909,w:209,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:48,x:89,y:960,w:76,h:26},
{t:"400. L'insensible Hippolyte est-il connu de toi ?",p:48,x:89,y:1012,w:515,h:26},
{t:"Sur quel frivole espoir penses-tu qu'il me plaigne,",p:48,x:89,y:1044,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Et respecte en moi seule un sexe qu'il dédaigne ?",p:48,x:89,y:1075,w:538,h:26},
{t:"Tu vois depuis quel temps il évite nos pas,",p:48,x:89,y:1107,w:463,h:26},
{t:"Et cherche tous les lieux où nous ne sommes pas.",p:48,x:89,y:1139,w:543,h:26},
{t:"46",p:49,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Another, bruited everywhere as well,",p:49,x:94,y:84,w:402,h:26},
{t:"makes him accompany Pirithoüs to hell.",p:49,x:94,y:115,w:434,h:26},
{t:"He saw Cocytus and that sombre shore",p:49,x:94,y:147,w:426,h:26},
{t:"the one man living with what were before,",p:49,x:94,y:179,w:460,h:26},
{t:"but, having done so, must in gloom remain,",p:49,x:94,y:210,w:479,h:26},
{t:"since all return from those dread shores is vain.",p:49,x:94,y:242,w:521,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:49,x:94,y:294,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Can any man before his breath is shed",p:49,x:94,y:345,w:420,h:26},
{t:"390. descend into those kingdoms of the dead?",p:49,x:94,y:377,w:516,h:26},
{t:"What spell could draw him to those depths below?",p:49,x:94,y:409,w:547,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:49,x:94,y:460,w:85,h:26},
{t:"His death is certain, Madam. You should know",p:49,x:94,y:512,w:502,h:26},
{t:"Athens weeps for him and Troezens bring",p:49,x:94,y:544,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus now forward as their king,",p:49,x:94,y:575,w:408,h:26},
{t:"while Phaedre here and trembling for her son",p:49,x:94,y:607,w:493,h:26},
{t:"asks anxiously of friends what must be done.",p:49,x:94,y:639,w:492,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:49,x:94,y:690,w:77,h:26},
{t:"You think, do you, Hippolytus will prove",p:49,x:94,y:742,w:434,h:26},
{t:"more kindly than the father was and move",p:49,x:94,y:774,w:463,h:26},
{t:"to end my punishment?",p:49,x:94,y:805,w:257,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:49,x:94,y:857,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Madam, I do.",p:49,x:94,y:909,w:144,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:49,x:94,y:960,w:77,h:26},
{t:"400. Does cold Hippolytus then seem to you",p:49,x:94,y:1012,w:482,h:26},
{t:"as pitying the gender he disdains",p:49,x:94,y:1044,w:360,h:26},
{t:"to honour me as breaker of those chains?",p:49,x:94,y:1075,w:453,h:26},
{t:"See what a fondness has his footfall got",p:49,x:94,y:1107,w:434,h:26},
{t:"that looks for all the places we are not.",p:49,x:94,y:1139,w:426,h:26},
{t:"47",p:50,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ISMENE",p:50,x:89,y:84,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Je sais de ses froideurs tout ce que l'on récite ;",p:50,x:89,y:135,w:514,h:26},
{t:"Mais j'ai vu près de vous ce superbe Hippolyte ;",p:50,x:89,y:167,w:523,h:26},
{t:"Et même, en le voyant, le bruit de sa fierté",p:50,x:89,y:199,w:470,h:26},
{t:"A redoublé pour lui ma curiosité.",p:50,x:89,y:230,w:356,h:26},
{t:"Sa présence à ce bruit n'a point paru répondre :",p:50,x:89,y:262,w:525,h:26},
{t:"410. Dès vos premiers regards je l'ai vu se confondre.",p:50,x:89,y:294,w:591,h:26},
{t:"Ses yeux, qui vainement voulaient vous éviter,",p:50,x:89,y:325,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Déjà pleins de langueur, ne pouvaient vous quitter.",p:50,x:89,y:357,w:560,h:26},
{t:"Le nom d'amant peut-être offense son courage ;",p:50,x:89,y:389,w:529,h:26},
{t:"Mais il en a les yeux, s'il n'en a le langage.",p:50,x:89,y:420,w:465,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:50,x:89,y:472,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Que mon coeur, chère Ismène, écoute avidement",p:50,x:89,y:524,w:539,h:26},
{t:"Un discours qui peut-être a peu de fondement !",p:50,x:89,y:555,w:519,h:26},
{t:"O toi qui me connais, te semblait-il croyable",p:50,x:89,y:587,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Que le triste jouet d'un sort impitoyable,",p:50,x:89,y:619,w:442,h:26},
{t:"Un coeur toujours nourri d'amertume et de pleurs,",p:50,x:89,y:650,w:551,h:26},
{t:"420. Dût connaître l'amour et ses folles douleurs ?",p:50,x:89,y:682,w:549,h:26},
{t:"Reste du sang d'un roi, noble fils de la terre,",p:50,x:89,y:714,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Je suis seule échappée aux fureurs de la guerre.",p:50,x:89,y:745,w:526,h:26},
{t:"J'ai perdu dans la fleur de leur jeune saison,",p:50,x:89,y:777,w:482,h:26},
{t:"Six frères, quel espoir d'une illustre maison !",p:50,x:89,y:809,w:488,h:26},
{t:"Le fer moissonna tout, et la terre humectée",p:50,x:89,y:840,w:475,h:26},
{t:"But à regret le sang des neveux d'Erechtée.",p:50,x:89,y:872,w:477,h:26},
{t:"Tu sais, depuis leur mort, quelle sévère loi",p:50,x:89,y:904,w:463,h:26},
{t:"Défend à tous les Grecs de soupirer pour moi :",p:50,x:89,y:935,w:510,h:26},
{t:"On craint que de la soeur les flammes téméraires",p:50,x:89,y:967,w:537,h:26},
{t:"430. Ne raniment un jour la cendre de ses frères.",p:50,x:89,y:999,w:539,h:26},
{t:"Mais tu sais bien aussi de quel oeil dédaigneux",p:50,x:89,y:1030,w:508,h:26},
{t:"Je regardais ce soin d'un vainqueur soupçonneux.",p:50,x:89,y:1062,w:542,h:26},
{t:"Tu sais que de tout temps à l'amour opposée,",p:50,x:89,y:1094,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Je rendais souvent grâce à l'injuste Thésée",p:50,x:89,y:1125,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Dont l'heureuse rigueur secondait mes mépris.",p:50,x:89,y:1157,w:509,h:26},
{t:"Mes yeux alors, mes yeux n'avaient pas vu son fils.",p:50,x:89,y:1189,w:560,h:26},
{t:"Non que par les yeux seuls, lâchement enchantée,",p:50,x:89,y:1220,w:548,h:26},
{t:"J'aime en lui sa beauté, sa grâce tant vantée,",p:50,x:89,y:1252,w:495,h:26},
{t:"48",p:51,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ISMENE",p:51,x:94,y:84,w:85,h:26},
{t:"I know that sternness, and it says a wealth",p:51,x:94,y:135,w:469,h:26},
{t:"on one who close to you is not himself.",p:51,x:94,y:167,w:425,h:26},
{t:"I’ve watched the proud Hippolytus proceed",p:51,x:94,y:199,w:467,h:26},
{t:"in manly approbation but concede",p:51,x:94,y:230,w:370,h:26},
{t:"to you a trembling and an anxious look.",p:51,x:94,y:262,w:434,h:26},
{t:"410. He’s awkward with you, shy: his hauteur took",p:51,x:94,y:294,w:556,h:26},
{t:"a form of languor that would go away",p:51,x:94,y:325,w:410,h:26},
{t:"but found the look still held him and must stay.",p:51,x:94,y:357,w:517,h:26},
{t:"If love is not a word he’d recognize",p:51,x:94,y:389,w:383,h:26},
{t:"that voiceless sentiment is in his eyes.",p:51,x:94,y:420,w:419,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:51,x:94,y:472,w:77,h:26},
{t:"What frail foundations give our hopes their start:",p:51,x:94,y:524,w:533,h:26},
{t:"I listen eagerly, Ismene: all my heart",p:51,x:94,y:555,w:407,h:26},
{t:"goes out to words I would believe from one",p:51,x:94,y:587,w:473,h:26},
{t:"who knows how ruthlessly the gods have done",p:51,x:94,y:619,w:507,h:26},
{t:"with me, have fed my heart with bitterness",p:51,x:94,y:650,w:470,h:26},
{t:"420. and not love’s fervour and its eagerness.",p:51,x:94,y:682,w:501,h:26},
{t:"I’ve regal blood, the noblest that had life,",p:51,x:94,y:714,w:453,h:26},
{t:"but I alone escaped the fury of the strife.",p:51,x:94,y:745,w:449,h:26},
{t:"Six brothers, in the freshness of their prime,",p:51,x:94,y:777,w:485,h:26},
{t:"our house’s hope, but felled before their time.",p:51,x:94,y:809,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Nephews of Erechtheus the sword cut down",p:51,x:94,y:840,w:474,h:26},
{t:"and in whose blood the deluged earth must drown.",p:51,x:94,y:872,w:555,h:26},
{t:"Though dead they may be, yet eternally",p:51,x:94,y:904,w:436,h:26},
{t:"the law forbids the Greeks show sympathy.",p:51,x:94,y:935,w:471,h:26},
{t:"As though the sister of those reckless flames",p:51,x:94,y:967,w:487,h:26},
{t:"430. would fan the ashes of her brother’s names.",p:51,x:94,y:999,w:537,h:26},
{t:"You know with what contempt my glance rejects",p:51,x:94,y:1030,w:528,h:26},
{t:"the plotting that my conqueror suspects,",p:51,x:94,y:1062,w:443,h:26},
{t:"I had, as you know well, no love in view",p:51,x:94,y:1094,w:437,h:26},
{t:"and so gave thanks to unjust Theseus who,",p:51,x:94,y:1125,w:473,h:26},
{t:"with grimness, reinforced my own contempt.",p:51,x:94,y:1157,w:488,h:26},
{t:"But then I’d never seen his son nor dreamt",p:51,x:94,y:1189,w:469,h:26},
{t:"my eyes could hold so beautiful a face,",p:51,x:94,y:1220,w:424,h:26},
{t:"the manly symmetry and natural grace",p:51,x:94,y:1252,w:425,h:26},
{t:"49",p:52,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Présents dont la nature a voulu l'honorer,",p:52,x:89,y:84,w:452,h:26},
{t:"440. Qu'il méprise lui-même, et qu'il semble ignorer.",p:52,x:89,y:115,w:578,h:26},
{t:"J'aime, je prise en lui de plus nobles richesses,",p:52,x:89,y:147,w:511,h:26},
{t:"Les vertus de son père, et non point les faiblesses.",p:52,x:89,y:179,w:553,h:26},
{t:"J'aime, je l'avoûrai, cet orgueil généreux",p:52,x:89,y:210,w:443,h:26},
{t:"Qui n'a jamais fléchi sous le joug amoureux.",p:52,x:89,y:242,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre en vain s'honorait des soupirs de Thésée :",p:52,x:89,y:274,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Pour moi, je suis plus fière, et fuis la gloire; aisée",p:52,x:89,y:305,w:541,h:26},
{t:"D'arracher un hommage à mille autres offert,",p:52,x:89,y:337,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Et d'entrer dans un coeur de toutes parts ouvert.",p:52,x:89,y:369,w:535,h:26},
{t:"Mais de faire fléchir un courage inflexible,",p:52,x:89,y:400,w:453,h:26},
{t:"450. De porter la douleur dans une âme insensible,",p:52,x:89,y:432,w:558,h:26},
{t:"D'enchaîner un captif de ses fers étonné,",p:52,x:89,y:464,w:447,h:26},
{t:"Contre un joug qui lui plaît vainement mutiné ;",p:52,x:89,y:495,w:513,h:26},
{t:"C'est là ce que je veux, c'est là ce qui m'irrite.",p:52,x:89,y:527,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Hercule à désarmer coûtait moins qu'Hippolyte,",p:52,x:89,y:559,w:518,h:26},
{t:"Et vaincu plus souvent, et plus tôt surmonté,",p:52,x:89,y:590,w:490,h:26},
{t:"Préparait moins de gloire; aux yeux qui l'ont dompté.",p:52,x:89,y:622,w:583,h:26},
{t:"Mais, chère Ismène, hélas ! quelle est mon impudence !",p:52,x:89,y:654,w:610,h:26},
{t:"On ne m'opposera que trop de résistance.",p:52,x:89,y:685,w:457,h:26},
{t:"Tu m'entendras peut-être, humble dans mon ennui,",p:52,x:89,y:717,w:564,h:26},
{t:"460. Gémir du même orgueil que j'admire aujourd'hui.",p:52,x:89,y:749,w:597,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte aimerait ? Par quel bonheur extrême",p:52,x:89,y:780,w:510,h:26},
{t:"Aurais-je pu fléchir...",p:52,x:89,y:812,w:230,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:52,x:89,y:864,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Vous l'entendrez lui-même :",p:52,x:89,y:915,w:309,h:26},
{t:"Il vient à vous.",p:52,x:89,y:947,w:163,h:26},
{t:"Scène 2",p:52,x:89,y:1009,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Hippolyte, Aricie, Ismène",p:52,x:89,y:1073,w:299,h:30},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:52,x:89,y:1157,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Madame, avant que de partir,",p:52,x:89,y:1209,w:323,h:26},
{t:"J'ai cru de votre sort devoir vous avertir.",p:52,x:89,y:1240,w:444,h:26},
{t:"50",p:53,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"that came so readily, so casually borne.",p:53,x:94,y:84,w:433,h:26},
{t:"440. He took no pleasure in them, seemed to scorn",p:53,x:94,y:115,w:560,h:26},
{t:"his rich embodiment of noble laws:",p:53,x:94,y:147,w:382,h:26},
{t:"so like the father but bereft of flaws.",p:53,x:94,y:179,w:398,h:26},
{t:"I love, I own I love that elevation",p:53,x:94,y:210,w:364,h:26},
{t:"which never stooped before to adoration.",p:53,x:94,y:242,w:448,h:26},
{t:"Phaedre honoured Theseus’s sighs",p:53,x:94,y:274,w:374,h:26},
{t:"but I, more proud than her, that homage prize",p:53,x:94,y:305,w:508,h:26},
{t:"reserved for me alone, not thousands more",p:53,x:94,y:337,w:473,h:26},
{t:"who make their heart appear an open door.",p:53,x:94,y:369,w:475,h:26},
{t:"I’ll bend to me a heart insensible",p:53,x:94,y:400,w:358,h:26},
{t:"450. to love, courageous and inflexible",p:53,x:94,y:432,w:422,h:26},
{t:"until the captive, startled by his pains,",p:53,x:94,y:464,w:418,h:26},
{t:"assume, against his wishes, sudden chains.",p:53,x:94,y:495,w:473,h:26},
{t:"This is what I want: Hippolytus",p:53,x:94,y:527,w:338,h:26},
{t:"is more than Hercules’ success to us.",p:53,x:94,y:559,w:403,h:26},
{t:"He fell too often to be counted prize",p:53,x:94,y:590,w:392,h:26},
{t:"beneath our glorious and mastering eyes.",p:53,x:94,y:622,w:453,h:26},
{t:"Such impudence, Ismene, that I’d plan",p:53,x:94,y:654,w:424,h:26},
{t:"against so most invulnerable a man.",p:53,x:94,y:685,w:396,h:26},
{t:"You’ll hear me humbled by my grief, in days",p:53,x:94,y:717,w:483,h:26},
{t:"460 to come perhaps regret these vaunting ways.",p:53,x:94,y:749,w:542,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus in love: what happiness",p:53,x:94,y:780,w:380,h:26},
{t:"would come from that!",p:53,x:94,y:812,w:248,h:26},
{t:"ISMENE",p:53,x:94,y:864,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Madam, you need not guess.",p:53,x:94,y:915,w:315,h:26},
{t:"He comes.",p:53,x:94,y:947,w:114,h:26},
{t:"Scene 2",p:53,x:94,y:1009,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Hippolytus, Aricia, Ismene",p:53,x:94,y:1073,w:309,h:30},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:53,x:94,y:1157,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Some matters, Madam, before I go",p:53,x:94,y:1209,w:383,h:26},
{t:"that touch your interests you ought to know.",p:53,x:94,y:1240,w:487,h:26},
{t:"51",p:54,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Mon père ne vit plus. Ma juste défiance",p:54,x:89,y:84,w:428,h:26},
{t:"Présageait les raisons de sa trop longue absence :",p:54,x:89,y:115,w:546,h:26},
{t:"La mort seule, bornant ses travaux éclatants,",p:54,x:89,y:147,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Pouvait à l'univers le cacher si longtemps.",p:54,x:89,y:179,w:457,h:26},
{t:"Les Dieux livrent enfin à la Parque homicide",p:54,x:89,y:210,w:478,h:26},
{t:"470. L'ami, le compagnon, le successeur d'Alcide.",p:54,x:89,y:242,w:541,h:26},
{t:"Je crois que votre haine, épargnant ses vertus,",p:54,x:89,y:274,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Ecoute sans regret ces noms qui lui sont dus.",p:54,x:89,y:305,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Un espoir adoucit ma tristesse mortelle :",p:54,x:89,y:337,w:444,h:26},
{t:"Je puis vous affranchier d'une austère tutelle.",p:54,x:89,y:369,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Je révoque des lois dont j'ai plaint la rigueur :",p:54,x:89,y:400,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Vous pouvez disposer de vous, de votre coeur ;",p:54,x:89,y:432,w:519,h:26},
{t:"Et dans cette Trézène, aujourd'hui mon partage,",p:54,x:89,y:464,w:528,h:26},
{t:"De mon aïeul Pitthée autrefois l'héritage,",p:54,x:89,y:495,w:445,h:26},
{t:"Qui m'a sans balancer reconnu pour son roi,",p:54,x:89,y:527,w:481,h:26},
{t:"480. Je vous laisse aussi libre, et plus libre que moi.",p:54,x:89,y:559,w:570,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:54,x:89,y:610,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Modérez des bontés dont l'excès m'embarrasse.",p:54,x:89,y:662,w:523,h:26},
{t:"D'un soin si généreux honorer ma disgrâce,",p:54,x:89,y:694,w:475,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur, c'est me ranger, plus que vous ne pensez,",p:54,x:89,y:725,w:573,h:26},
{t:"Sous ces austères lois dont vous me dispensez.",p:54,x:89,y:757,w:517,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:54,x:89,y:809,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Du choix d'un successeur Athènes incertaine,",p:54,x:89,y:860,w:492,h:26},
{t:"Parle de vous, me nomme, et le fils de la Reine.",p:54,x:89,y:892,w:523,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:54,x:89,y:944,w:76,h:26},
{t:"De moi, Seigneur ?",p:54,x:89,y:995,w:209,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:54,x:89,y:1047,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Je sais, sans vouloir me flatter,",p:54,x:89,y:1099,w:340,h:26},
{t:"Qu'une superbe loi semble me rejeter.",p:54,x:89,y:1130,w:419,h:26},
{t:"La Grèce me reproche une mère étrangère.",p:54,x:89,y:1162,w:472,h:26},
{t:"490. Mais si pour concurrent je n'avais que mon frère,",p:54,x:89,y:1194,w:591,h:26},
{t:"52",p:55,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"My father now is dead. My earlier fear",p:55,x:94,y:84,w:413,h:26},
{t:"foretold the cause of his long absence here.",p:55,x:94,y:115,w:476,h:26},
{t:"For one so celebrated, death alone",p:55,x:94,y:147,w:378,h:26},
{t:"could keep his enterprises so unknown.",p:55,x:94,y:179,w:429,h:26},
{t:"The gods required that Hercules’s friend,",p:55,x:94,y:210,w:444,h:26},
{t:"470. his heir and true companion, meet his end.",p:55,x:94,y:242,w:526,h:26},
{t:"Think what you like of him, you’ll not refuse,",p:55,x:94,y:274,w:487,h:26},
{t:"the honours paid to him, I trust, as dues.",p:55,x:94,y:305,w:451,h:26},
{t:"That done, to soften mortal sadness, I,",p:55,x:94,y:337,w:425,h:26},
{t:"now guardian of that stern decree, must try",p:55,x:94,y:369,w:477,h:26},
{t:"to lift the laws which played their unfair part",p:55,x:94,y:400,w:483,h:26},
{t:"and say: dispose your person as your heart.",p:55,x:94,y:432,w:482,h:26},
{t:"Troezen now is mine, my heritage",p:55,x:94,y:464,w:370,h:26},
{t:"from Pittheus as of old, a solemn pledge",p:55,x:94,y:495,w:440,h:26},
{t:"that none contests: with that authority,",p:55,x:94,y:527,w:429,h:26},
{t:"480. I leave you wholly free, more free than me.",p:55,x:94,y:559,w:532,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:55,x:94,y:610,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Moderate your gift, my lord, for such excess",p:55,x:94,y:662,w:482,h:26},
{t:"that honours me must add to my distress.",p:55,x:94,y:694,w:459,h:26},
{t:"You leave me in your debt. I am more yoked",p:55,x:94,y:725,w:488,h:26},
{t:"by kindliness than laws you’ve just revoked.",p:55,x:94,y:757,w:481,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:55,x:94,y:809,w:138,h:26},
{t:"For heir Athens is uncertain, has begun",p:55,x:94,y:860,w:428,h:26},
{t:"to speak of you and me and Phaedre’s son.",p:55,x:94,y:892,w:471,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:55,x:94,y:944,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Me?",p:55,x:94,y:995,w:42,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:55,x:94,y:1047,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Not ones to flatter, Greece has tried",p:55,x:94,y:1099,w:393,h:26},
{t:"with trumped-up laws to put my claims aside:",p:55,x:94,y:1130,w:501,h:26},
{t:"I have my mother’s blood, but am the one",p:55,x:94,y:1162,w:463,h:26},
{t:"490. who’s sole competitor to Phaedra’s son,",p:55,x:94,y:1194,w:488,h:26},
{t:"53",p:56,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Madame, j'ai sur lui de véritables droits",p:56,x:89,y:84,w:430,h:26},
{t:"Que je saurais sauver du caprice des lois.",p:56,x:89,y:115,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Un frein plus légitime arrête mon audace :",p:56,x:89,y:147,w:463,h:26},
{t:"Je vous cède, ou plutôt je vous rends une place,",p:56,x:89,y:179,w:526,h:26},
{t:"Un sceptre que jadis vos aïeux ont reçu",p:56,x:89,y:210,w:431,h:26},
{t:"De ce fameux mortel que la terre a conçu.",p:56,x:89,y:242,w:460,h:26},
{t:"L'adoption le mit entre les mains d'Egée.",p:56,x:89,y:274,w:444,h:26},
{t:"Athènes, par mon père accrue et protégée,",p:56,x:89,y:305,w:469,h:26},
{t:"Reconnut avec joie un roi si généreux,",p:56,x:89,y:337,w:418,h:26},
{t:"500. Et laissa dans l'oubli vos frères malheureux.",p:56,x:89,y:369,w:536,h:26},
{t:"Athènes dans ses murs maintenant vous rappelle.",p:56,x:89,y:400,w:542,h:26},
{t:"Assez elle a gémi d'une longue querelle,",p:56,x:89,y:432,w:437,h:26},
{t:"Assez dans ses sillons votre sang englouti",p:56,x:89,y:464,w:455,h:26},
{t:"A fait fumer le champ dont il était sorti.",p:56,x:89,y:495,w:431,h:26},
{t:"Trézène m'obéit. Les campagnes de Crète",p:56,x:89,y:527,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Offrent au fils de Phèdre une riche retraite.",p:56,x:89,y:559,w:469,h:26},
{t:"L'Attique est votre bien. Je pars et vais pour vous",p:56,x:89,y:590,w:541,h:26},
{t:"Réunir tous les voeux partagés entre nous.",p:56,x:89,y:622,w:469,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:56,x:89,y:674,w:76,h:26},
{t:"De tout ce que j'entends étonnée et confuse,",p:56,x:89,y:725,w:490,h:26},
{t:"510. Je crains presque, je crains qu'un songe ne m'abuse.",p:56,x:89,y:757,w:633,h:26},
{t:"Veillé-je ? Puis-je croire un semblable dessein ?",p:56,x:89,y:789,w:519,h:26},
{t:"Quel Dieu, Seigneur, quel Dieu l'a mis dans votre sein ?",p:56,x:89,y:820,w:609,h:26},
{t:"Qu'à bon droit votre gloire; en tous lieux est semée !",p:56,x:89,y:852,w:579,h:26},
{t:"Et que la vérité passe la renommée !",p:56,x:89,y:884,w:401,h:26},
{t:"Vous-même en ma faveur vous voulez vous trahir !",p:56,x:89,y:915,w:560,h:26},
{t:"N'était-ce pas assez de ne me point haïr ?",p:56,x:89,y:947,w:457,h:26},
{t:"Et d'avoir si longtemps pu défendre votre âme",p:56,x:89,y:979,w:506,h:26},
{t:"De cette inimitié...",p:56,x:89,y:1010,w:202,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:56,x:89,y:1062,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Moi, vous haïr, Madame ?",p:56,x:89,y:1114,w:279,h:26},
{t:"Avec quelques couleurs qu'on ait peint ma fierté,",p:56,x:89,y:1145,w:533,h:26},
{t:"520. Croit-on que dans ses flancs un monstre m'ait porté ?",p:56,x:89,y:1177,w:642,h:26},
{t:"Quelles sauvages moeurs, quelle haine endurcie",p:56,x:89,y:1209,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Pourrait, en vous voyant, n'être point adoucie ?",p:56,x:89,y:1240,w:518,h:26},
{t:"Ai-je pu résister au charme décevant...",p:56,x:89,y:1272,w:427,h:26},
{t:"54",p:57,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"and over him I have such powerful cause",p:57,x:94,y:84,w:448,h:26},
{t:"that he’d be foolish to resort to laws.",p:57,x:94,y:115,w:402,h:26},
{t:"But justice checks that enterprise: to you",p:57,x:94,y:147,w:449,h:26},
{t:"I yield, indeed give back what is your due:",p:57,x:94,y:179,w:466,h:26},
{t:"that sceptred rule your ancestors obtained",p:57,x:94,y:210,w:462,h:26},
{t:"from that first man of men the earth contained.",p:57,x:94,y:242,w:518,h:26},
{t:"Aegeus took it up. My father served",p:57,x:94,y:274,w:390,h:26},
{t:"to have that claim extended and preserved",p:57,x:94,y:305,w:468,h:26},
{t:"until all Athens gloried in their generous king",p:57,x:94,y:337,w:489,h:26},
{t:"500. and left your brothers a forgotten thing.",p:57,x:94,y:369,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Enough those sounds of quarrel: Athens calls",p:57,x:94,y:400,w:492,h:26},
{t:"you back to rule within her circling walls.",p:57,x:94,y:432,w:445,h:26},
{t:"Enough of blood has drenched the furrowed earth",p:57,x:94,y:464,w:542,h:26},
{t:"in smoking fields from which it drew its birth.",p:57,x:94,y:495,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Troezen obeys me, and the plains of Crete",p:57,x:94,y:527,w:462,h:26},
{t:"will offer Phaedre’s son a rich retreat.",p:57,x:94,y:559,w:410,h:26},
{t:"Athens is yours in short, and I’ll promote",p:57,x:94,y:590,w:446,h:26},
{t:"your name if interests divide the vote.",p:57,x:94,y:622,w:417,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:57,x:94,y:674,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Fate whirls me round. I am confused and fear",p:57,x:94,y:725,w:498,h:26},
{t:"510. I will awaken from the words I hear.",p:57,x:94,y:757,w:453,h:26},
{t:"It’s true I had the hopes, but what possessed",p:57,x:94,y:789,w:495,h:26},
{t:"some God to put such valour in your breast?",p:57,x:94,y:820,w:485,h:26},
{t:"If this be token of a glory sown",p:57,x:94,y:852,w:340,h:26},
{t:"across the world, that honour’s fairly known.",p:57,x:94,y:884,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Against your better interests you have turned",p:57,x:94,y:915,w:496,h:26},
{t:"to help the hated one you should have spurned.",p:57,x:94,y:947,w:522,h:26},
{t:"How long you’ve kept your soul dissociate",p:57,x:94,y:979,w:457,h:26},
{t:"from enmity.",p:57,x:94,y:1010,w:141,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:57,x:94,y:1062,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Madam, I do not hate.",p:57,x:94,y:1114,w:244,h:26},
{t:"Whatever shape my uncouth pride assume",p:57,x:94,y:1145,w:465,h:26},
{t:"520. I was not born from some fierce monster’s womb.",p:57,x:94,y:1177,w:602,h:26},
{t:"Hardened, brought up in fields, but no such field",p:57,x:94,y:1209,w:528,h:26},
{t:"could breed a disposition not to yield",p:57,x:94,y:1240,w:401,h:26},
{t:"to one so charming with a gentle touch. . .",p:57,x:94,y:1272,w:464,h:26},
{t:"55",p:58,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ARICIE",p:58,x:89,y:84,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Quoi ? Seigneur.",p:58,x:89,y:135,w:181,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:58,x:89,y:187,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Je me suis engagé trop avant.",p:58,x:89,y:239,w:328,h:26},
{t:"Je vois que la raison cède à la violence.",p:58,x:89,y:270,w:430,h:26},
{t:"Puisque j'ai commencé de rompre le silence,",p:58,x:89,y:302,w:485,h:26},
{t:"Madame, il faut poursuivre : il faut vous informer",p:58,x:89,y:334,w:538,h:26},
{t:"D'un secret que mon coeur ne peut plus renfermer.",p:58,x:89,y:365,w:559,h:26},
{t:"Vous voyez devant vous un prince déplorable,",p:58,x:89,y:397,w:501,h:26},
{t:"D'un téméraire orgueil exemple mémorable.",p:58,x:89,y:429,w:482,h:26},
{t:"Moi qui, contre l'amour fièrement révolté,",p:58,x:89,y:460,w:454,h:26},
{t:"Aux fers de ses captifs ai longtemps insulté ;",p:58,x:89,y:492,w:489,h:26},
{t:"Qui des faibles mortels déplorant les naufrages,",p:58,x:89,y:524,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Pensais toujours du bord contempler les orages ;",p:58,x:89,y:555,w:535,h:26},
{t:"Asservi maintenant sous la commune loi,",p:58,x:89,y:587,w:446,h:26},
{t:"Par quel trouble me vois-je emporté loin de moi ?",p:58,x:89,y:619,w:542,h:26},
{t:"Un moment a vaincu mon audace imprudente :",p:58,x:89,y:650,w:515,h:26},
{t:"Cette âme si superbe est enfin dépendante.",p:58,x:89,y:682,w:475,h:26},
{t:"Depuis près de six mois, honteux, désespéré,",p:58,x:89,y:714,w:496,h:26},
{t:"Portant partout le trait dont je suis déchiré,",p:58,x:89,y:745,w:473,h:26},
{t:"Contre vous, contre moi, vainement je m'éprouve :",p:58,x:89,y:777,w:560,h:26},
{t:"Présente je vous fuis, absente je vous trouve ;",p:58,x:89,y:809,w:508,h:26},
{t:"Dans le fond des forêts votre image me suit ;",p:58,x:89,y:840,w:495,h:26},
{t:"La lumière du jour, les ombres de la nuit,",p:58,x:89,y:872,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Tout retrace à mes yeux les charmes que j'évite,",p:58,x:89,y:904,w:532,h:26},
{t:"Tout vous livre à l'envi le rebelle Hippolyte.",p:58,x:89,y:935,w:471,h:26},
{t:"Moi-même, pour tout fruit de mes soins superflus,",p:58,x:89,y:967,w:548,h:26},
{t:"Maintenant je me cherche, et ne me trouve plus.",p:58,x:89,y:999,w:531,h:26},
{t:"Mon arc, mes javelots, mon char, tout m'importune.",p:58,x:89,y:1030,w:570,h:26},
{t:"Je ne me souviens plus des leçons de Neptune.",p:58,x:89,y:1062,w:513,h:26},
{t:"Mes seuls gémissements font retentir les bois,",p:58,x:89,y:1094,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Et mes coursiers oisifs ont oublié ma voix.",p:58,x:89,y:1125,w:460,h:26},
{t:"Peut-être le récit d'un amour si sauvage",p:58,x:89,y:1157,w:437,h:26},
{t:"Vous fait en m'écoutant rougir de votre ouvrage.",p:58,x:89,y:1189,w:532,h:26},
{t:"D'un coeur qui s'offre à vous quel farouche entretien !",p:58,x:89,y:1220,w:589,h:26},
{t:"Quel étrange captif pour un si beau lien !",p:58,x:89,y:1252,w:447,h:26},
{t:"56",p:59,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ARICIA",p:59,x:94,y:84,w:77,h:26},
{t:"My lord, what do you say?",p:59,x:94,y:135,w:286,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:59,x:94,y:187,w:138,h:26},
{t:"By now too much",p:59,x:94,y:239,w:189,h:26},
{t:"to not press on, and since the passions force",p:59,x:94,y:270,w:486,h:26},
{t:"our reasons from their safe and silent course,",p:59,x:94,y:302,w:496,h:26},
{t:"I must confess a truth so far untold",p:59,x:94,y:334,w:386,h:26},
{t:"and one too aching for the heart to hold.",p:59,x:94,y:365,w:444,h:26},
{t:"You have before you all too memorably",p:59,x:94,y:397,w:428,h:26},
{t:"530. a prince of lofty spirit, one to be",p:59,x:94,y:429,w:407,h:26},
{t:"disdainful of what subject love attains.",p:59,x:94,y:460,w:419,h:26},
{t:"I laughed to see those captives in their chains",p:59,x:94,y:492,w:501,h:26},
{t:"from safety, so I thought. From nearby shores",p:59,x:94,y:524,w:506,h:26},
{t:"I watched as storms swept by. A moment’s pause",p:59,x:94,y:555,w:543,h:26},
{t:"and I with those poor mortals had good cause",p:59,x:94,y:587,w:501,h:26},
{t:"to fall subservient to the selfsame laws.",p:59,x:94,y:619,w:433,h:26},
{t:"A moment vanquished me, and soul now fares",p:59,x:94,y:650,w:506,h:26},
{t:"from proud audacities to long despairs.",p:59,x:94,y:682,w:427,h:26},
{t:"In truth, for six months now, and all in vain",p:59,x:94,y:714,w:476,h:26},
{t:"540. I’ve sought to fight love’s arrow and its pain.",p:59,x:94,y:745,w:546,h:26},
{t:"In leaving you my very self I’d dare",p:59,x:94,y:777,w:389,h:26},
{t:"to lose, but find you’re back and everywhere.",p:59,x:94,y:809,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Your image follows me to forest deeps,",p:59,x:94,y:840,w:425,h:26},
{t:"by day and night it haunts me, never sleeps:",p:59,x:94,y:872,w:489,h:26},
{t:"such charms it captures of you, each new cast",p:59,x:94,y:904,w:503,h:26},
{t:"must bring Hippolytus to you at last.",p:59,x:94,y:935,w:399,h:26},
{t:"In shame and consequence it seems I stare",p:59,x:94,y:967,w:474,h:26},
{t:"on someone who is only absent air.",p:59,x:94,y:999,w:386,h:26},
{t:"My bow, my chariot, my javelin",p:59,x:94,y:1030,w:343,h:26},
{t:"550. grow tedious to me, and I now begin",p:59,x:94,y:1062,w:458,h:26},
{t:"to lose what Neptune taught me, hear my shout",p:59,x:94,y:1094,w:523,h:26},
{t:"grow rare and distant in the woods about.",p:59,x:94,y:1125,w:457,h:26},
{t:"No doubt a narrative from so uncouth",p:59,x:94,y:1157,w:410,h:26},
{t:"a one will make you blush and doubt the truth.",p:59,x:94,y:1189,w:511,h:26},
{t:"So wild a way with words and you will think",p:59,x:94,y:1220,w:475,h:26},
{t:"me strange a captive for so rare a link,",p:59,x:94,y:1252,w:424,h:26},
{t:"57",p:60,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Mais l'offrande à vos yeux en doit être plus chère.",p:60,x:89,y:84,w:544,h:26},
{t:"Songez que je vous parle une langue étrangère,",p:60,x:89,y:115,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Et ne rejetz pas des voeux mal exprimés,",p:60,x:89,y:147,w:451,h:26},
{t:"560. Qu'Hippolyte sans vous n'aurait jamais formés.",p:60,x:89,y:179,w:570,h:26},
{t:"Scène 3",p:60,x:89,y:264,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Hippolyte, Aricie, Théramène",p:60,x:89,y:317,w:316,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:60,x:89,y:369,w:134,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur, la reine vient, et je l'ai devancée.",p:60,x:89,y:420,w:475,h:26},
{t:"Elle vous cherche.",p:60,x:89,y:452,w:197,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:60,x:89,y:504,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Moi ?",p:60,x:89,y:555,w:56,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:60,x:89,y:607,w:134,h:26},
{t:"J'ignore sa pensée,",p:60,x:89,y:659,w:208,h:26},
{t:"Mais on vous est venu demander de sa part.",p:60,x:89,y:690,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre veut vous parler avant votre départ.",p:60,x:89,y:722,w:479,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:60,x:89,y:774,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre ? Que lui dirai-je ? Et que peut-elle attendre...",p:60,x:89,y:825,w:587,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:60,x:89,y:877,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur, vous ne pouvez refuser de l'entendre.",p:60,x:89,y:929,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Quoique trop convaincu de son inimitié,",p:60,x:89,y:960,w:432,h:26},
{t:"Vous devez à ses pleurs quelque ombre de pitié.",p:60,x:89,y:992,w:528,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:60,x:89,y:1044,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Cependant vous sortez. Et je pars. Et j'ignore",p:60,x:89,y:1095,w:495,h:26},
{t:"570. Si je n'offense point les charmes que j'adore.",p:60,x:89,y:1127,w:549,h:26},
{t:"J'ignore si ce coeur que je laisse en vos mains...",p:60,x:89,y:1159,w:526,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:60,x:89,y:1210,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Partez, Prince, et suivez vos généreux desseins.",p:60,x:89,y:1262,w:522,h:26},
{t:"58",p:61,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"but see it all the greater to succeed",p:61,x:94,y:84,w:387,h:26},
{t:"if in a tongue unknown to me I plead.",p:61,x:94,y:115,w:411,h:26},
{t:"Do not reject the vows of such a suit:",p:61,x:94,y:147,w:411,h:26},
{t:"560. Hippolytus without you would be mute.",p:61,x:94,y:179,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Scene 3",p:61,x:94,y:264,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Hippolytus, Aricia, Theramenes",p:61,x:94,y:317,w:339,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:61,x:94,y:369,w:149,h:26},
{t:"The queen approaches, sir: she looks for you.",p:61,x:94,y:420,w:499,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:61,x:94,y:472,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Me? Why me?",p:61,x:94,y:524,w:151,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:61,x:94,y:575,w:149,h:26},
{t:"What end she has in view",p:61,x:94,y:627,w:278,h:26},
{t:"I do not know, but wants before you go",p:61,x:94,y:659,w:431,h:26},
{t:"to speak, and I am sent to tell you so.",p:61,x:94,y:690,w:417,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:61,x:94,y:742,w:138,h:26},
{t:"What can I say, or Phaedra want from me?",p:61,x:94,y:794,w:468,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:61,x:94,y:845,w:149,h:26},
{t:"She’s one, my lord, you can’t refuse to see.",p:61,x:94,y:897,w:476,h:26},
{t:"However deep her enmity appears",p:61,x:94,y:929,w:374,h:26},
{t:"you’ll show some shade of pity for her tears.",p:61,x:94,y:960,w:486,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:61,x:94,y:1012,w:138,h:26},
{t:"I’ll go, but do not leave me here before,",p:61,x:94,y:1064,w:437,h:26},
{t:"570. perhaps offending one whom I adore",p:61,x:94,y:1095,w:458,h:26},
{t:"I know what hope my heart has in her hands. . .",p:61,x:94,y:1127,w:528,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:61,x:94,y:1179,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Pursue your generous measure as it stands,",p:61,x:94,y:1230,w:479,h:26},
{t:"59",p:62,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Rendez de mon pouvoir Athènes tributaire.",p:62,x:89,y:84,w:468,h:26},
{t:"J'accepte tous les dons que vous voulez me faire.",p:62,x:89,y:115,w:538,h:26},
{t:"Mais cet Empire enfin si grand, si glorieux,",p:62,x:89,y:147,w:464,h:26},
{t:"N'est pas de vos présents le plus cher à mes yeux.",p:62,x:89,y:179,w:553,h:26},
{t:"Scène 4",p:62,x:89,y:262,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte, Théramène",p:62,x:89,y:314,w:240,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:62,x:89,y:397,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Ami, tout est-il prêt ? Mais la Reine s'avance.",p:62,x:89,y:449,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Va, que pour le départ tout s'arme en diligence.",p:62,x:89,y:480,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Fais donner le signal, cours, ordonne et revien",p:62,x:89,y:512,w:506,h:26},
{t:"580. Me délivrer bientôt d'un fâcheux entretien.",p:62,x:89,y:544,w:520,h:26},
{t:"Scène 5",p:62,x:89,y:629,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phèdre, Hippolyte, Oenone",p:62,x:89,y:682,w:292,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE à OENONE",p:62,x:89,y:765,w:210,h:26},
{t:"Le voici. Vers mon coeur tout mon sang se retire.",p:62,x:89,y:817,w:540,h:26},
{t:"J'oublie, en le voyant, ce que je viens lui dire.",p:62,x:89,y:849,w:500,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:62,x:89,y:900,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Souvenez-vous d'un fils qui n'espère qu'en vous.",p:62,x:89,y:952,w:532,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:62,x:89,y:1004,w:88,h:26},
{t:"On dit qu'un prompt départ vous éloigne de nous,",p:62,x:89,y:1055,w:544,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur. A vos douleurs je viens joindre mes larmes.",p:62,x:89,y:1087,w:589,h:26},
{t:"Je vous viens pour un fils expliquer mes alarmes.",p:62,x:89,y:1119,w:538,h:26},
{t:"Mon fils n'a plus de père, et le jour n'est pas loin",p:62,x:89,y:1150,w:531,h:26},
{t:"Qui de ma mort encor doit le rendre témoin.",p:62,x:89,y:1182,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Déjà mille ennemis attaquent son enfance ;",p:62,x:89,y:1214,w:476,h:26},
{t:"590. Vous seul pouvez contre eux embrasser sa défense.",p:62,x:89,y:1245,w:622,h:26},
{t:"60",p:63,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"make Athens tributary to my power",p:63,x:94,y:84,w:388,h:26},
{t:"and I will gladly take what’s in this hour.",p:63,x:94,y:115,w:443,h:26},
{t:"For great and glorious though that empire be,",p:63,x:94,y:147,w:499,h:26},
{t:"it’s not the offer, sir, most dear to me.",p:63,x:94,y:179,w:421,h:26},
{t:"Scene 4",p:63,x:94,y:241,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Hippolytus, Theramenes",p:63,x:94,y:304,w:287,h:30},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:63,x:94,y:391,w:139,h:30},
{t:"Is all then ready, friend —  I see the queen",p:63,x:94,y:444,w:471,h:26},
{t:"approaches — speedily to quit the scene?",p:63,x:94,y:475,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Go set the sail and course, and then, I’d ask,",p:63,x:94,y:507,w:490,h:26},
{t:"580. return to save me from a tiresome task.",p:63,x:94,y:539,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Scène 5",p:63,x:94,y:624,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phaedre, Hippolytus, Oenone",p:63,x:94,y:677,w:317,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA to OENONE",p:63,x:94,y:760,w:235,h:26},
{t:"He’s here. My blood runs back into the heart,",p:63,x:94,y:812,w:492,h:26},
{t:"forgets in seeing him just where to start.",p:63,x:94,y:844,w:446,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:63,x:94,y:895,w:93,h:26},
{t:"You have a son whose only hope you are.",p:63,x:94,y:947,w:453,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:63,x:94,y:999,w:104,h:26},
{t:"I hear you mean to go from us and far,",p:63,x:94,y:1050,w:428,h:26},
{t:"so come to add my grieving tears to yours",p:63,x:94,y:1082,w:463,h:26},
{t:"and, Prince, to ask you of a son whose cause",p:63,x:94,y:1114,w:490,h:26},
{t:"is truly pitiful, and may be left",p:63,x:94,y:1145,w:329,h:26},
{t:"and all too shortly even more bereft.",p:63,x:94,y:1177,w:400,h:26},
{t:"He has a thousand enemies and you",p:63,x:94,y:1209,w:396,h:26},
{t:"590. alone to count on for defence. It’s true",p:63,x:94,y:1240,w:477,h:26},
{t:"61",p:64,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Mais un secret remords agite mes esprits.",p:64,x:89,y:84,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Je crains d'avoir fermé votre oreille à ses cris.",p:64,x:89,y:115,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Je tremble que sur lui votre juste colère",p:64,x:89,y:147,w:435,h:26},
{t:"Ne poursuive bientôt une odieuse mère.",p:64,x:89,y:179,w:436,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:64,x:89,y:230,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Madame, je n'ai point des sentiments si bas.",p:64,x:89,y:282,w:485,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:64,x:89,y:334,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Quand vous me haïriez, je ne m'en plaindrais pas,",p:64,x:89,y:385,w:546,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur. Vous m'avez vue attachée à vous nuire ;",p:64,x:89,y:417,w:556,h:26},
{t:"Dans le fond de mon coeur vous ne pouviez pas lire.",p:64,x:89,y:449,w:571,h:26},
{t:"A votre inimitié j'ai pris soin de m'offrir.",p:64,x:89,y:480,w:434,h:26},
{t:"600. Aux bords que j'habitais je n'ai pu vous souffrir.",p:64,x:89,y:512,w:579,h:26},
{t:"En public, en secret, contre vous déclarée,",p:64,x:89,y:544,w:463,h:26},
{t:"J'ai voulu par des mers en être séparée ;",p:64,x:89,y:575,w:448,h:26},
{t:"J'ai même défendu par une expresse loi",p:64,x:89,y:607,w:433,h:26},
{t:"Qu'on osât prononcer votre nom devant moi.",p:64,x:89,y:639,w:490,h:26},
{t:"Si pourtant à l'offense on mesure la peine,",p:64,x:89,y:670,w:463,h:26},
{t:"Si la haine peut seule attirer votre haine,",p:64,x:89,y:702,w:448,h:26},
{t:"Jamais femme ne fut plus digne de pitié,",p:64,x:89,y:734,w:443,h:26},
{t:"Et moins digne, Seigneur, de votre inimitié.",p:64,x:89,y:765,w:475,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:64,x:89,y:817,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Des droits de ses enfants une mère jalouse",p:64,x:89,y:869,w:470,h:26},
{t:"610. Pardonne rarement au fils d'une autre épouse.",p:64,x:89,y:900,w:563,h:26},
{t:"Madame, je le sais. Les soupçons importuns",p:64,x:89,y:932,w:480,h:26},
{t:"Sont d'un second hymen les fruits les plus communs.",p:64,x:89,y:964,w:580,h:26},
{t:"Toute autre aurait pour moi pris les mêmes ombrages,",p:64,x:89,y:995,w:596,h:26},
{t:"Et j'en aurais peut-être essuyé plus d'outrages.",p:64,x:89,y:1027,w:516,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:64,x:89,y:1079,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! Seigneur, que le Ciel, j'ose ici l'attester,",p:64,x:89,y:1130,w:487,h:26},
{t:"De cette loi commune a voulu m'excepter !",p:64,x:89,y:1162,w:469,h:26},
{t:"Qu'un soin bien différent me trouble et me dévore !",p:64,x:89,y:1194,w:562,h:26},
{t:"62",p:65,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"my spirits are consumed by hidden fears,",p:65,x:94,y:84,w:451,h:26},
{t:"that my behaviour will have closed your ears.",p:65,x:94,y:115,w:496,h:26},
{t:"I tremble lest that angry hate which you",p:65,x:94,y:147,w:439,h:26},
{t:"will rightly feel towards me hurt him too.",p:65,x:94,y:179,w:445,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:65,x:94,y:230,w:138,h:26},
{t:"I never felt a sentiment so base.",p:65,x:94,y:282,w:354,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:65,x:94,y:334,w:104,h:26},
{t:"I would not blame you for it. I’ve no case",p:65,x:94,y:385,w:450,h:26},
{t:"expecting otherwise:  you never knew",p:65,x:94,y:417,w:415,h:26},
{t:"my rationale at heart for hurting you.",p:65,x:94,y:449,w:407,h:26},
{t:"Whatever place I found myself, upon",p:65,x:94,y:480,w:402,h:26},
{t:"600. what shore, my hate made certain you were gone.",p:65,x:94,y:512,w:607,h:26},
{t:"In public and in secret, my decrees",p:65,x:94,y:544,w:383,h:26},
{t:"ensured there stretched between us distant seas.",p:65,x:94,y:575,w:537,h:26},
{t:"Indeed I even had a law to blame",p:65,x:94,y:607,w:367,h:26},
{t:"you: none in front of me should speak your name.",p:65,x:94,y:639,w:549,h:26},
{t:"If this was hate expressed, it only drew",p:65,x:94,y:670,w:429,h:26},
{t:"more fervently on me the hate from you.",p:65,x:94,y:702,w:447,h:26},
{t:"No woman ever merited your pity",p:65,x:94,y:734,w:366,h:26},
{t:"more, and less deserved your enmity.",p:65,x:94,y:765,w:413,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:65,x:94,y:817,w:138,h:26},
{t:"For her son a mother often spites",p:65,x:94,y:869,w:364,h:26},
{t:"610. another’s offspring that might claim his rights.",p:65,x:94,y:900,w:562,h:26},
{t:"I know as well that from a second bed",p:65,x:94,y:932,w:416,h:26},
{t:"too commonly are deep suspicions bred.",p:65,x:94,y:964,w:440,h:26},
{t:"A fault another would have taken till",p:65,x:94,y:995,w:396,h:26},
{t:"I had by her been treated far worse still.",p:65,x:94,y:1027,w:441,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:65,x:94,y:1079,w:103,h:26},
{t:"How much I am exempt of that, the sky",p:65,x:94,y:1130,w:436,h:26},
{t:"against the common law will testify.",p:65,x:94,y:1162,w:392,h:26},
{t:"My lord, far other troubles weigh on me.",p:65,x:94,y:1194,w:441,h:26},
{t:"63",p:66,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:66,x:89,y:84,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Madame, il n'est pas temps de vous troubler encore.",p:66,x:89,y:135,w:573,h:26},
{t:"Peut-être votre époux voit encore le jour ;",p:66,x:89,y:167,w:462,h:26},
{t:"Le ciel peut à nos pleurs accorder son retour.",p:66,x:89,y:199,w:492,h:26},
{t:"Neptune le protège, et ce Dieu tutélaire",p:66,x:89,y:230,w:431,h:26},
{t:"Ne sera pas en vain imploré par mon père.",p:66,x:89,y:262,w:466,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:66,x:89,y:314,w:88,h:26},
{t:"On ne voit point deux fois le rivage des morts,",p:66,x:89,y:365,w:506,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur. Puisque Thésée a vu les sombres bords,",p:66,x:89,y:397,w:548,h:26},
{t:"En vain vous espérez qu'un Dieu vous le renvoie,",p:66,x:89,y:429,w:535,h:26},
{t:"Et l'avare Achéron ne lâche point sa proie.",p:66,x:89,y:460,w:460,h:26},
{t:"Que dis-je ? Il n'est point mort, puisqu'il respire en vous.",p:66,x:89,y:492,w:623,h:26},
{t:"Toujours devant mes yeux je crois vois mon époux.",p:66,x:89,y:524,w:563,h:26},
{t:"Je le vois, je lui parle, et mon coeur... Je m'égare,",p:66,x:89,y:555,w:549,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur ; ma folle ardeur malgré moi se déclare.",p:66,x:89,y:587,w:544,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:66,x:89,y:639,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Je vois de votre amour l'effet prodigieux.",p:66,x:89,y:690,w:447,h:26},
{t:"Tout mort qu'il est, Thésée est présent à vos yeux ;",p:66,x:89,y:722,w:564,h:26},
{t:"Toujours de son amour votre âme est embrasée.",p:66,x:89,y:754,w:532,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:66,x:89,y:805,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Oui, Prince, je languis, je brûle pour Thésée.",p:66,x:89,y:857,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Je l'aime, non point tel que l'ont vu les enfers,",p:66,x:89,y:889,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Volage adorateur de mille objets divers,",p:66,x:89,y:920,w:435,h:26},
{t:"Qui va du Dieu des morts déshonorer la couche ;",p:66,x:89,y:952,w:535,h:26},
{t:"Mais fidèle, mais fier, et même un peu farouche,",p:66,x:89,y:984,w:529,h:26},
{t:"Charmant, jeune, traînant tous les coeurs après soi,",p:66,x:89,y:1015,w:566,h:26},
{t:"Tel qu'on dépeint nos Dieux, ou tel que je vous voi.",p:66,x:89,y:1047,w:561,h:26},
{t:"Il avait votre port, vos yeux, votre langage,",p:66,x:89,y:1079,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Cette noble pudeur colorait son visage,",p:66,x:89,y:1110,w:426,h:26},
{t:"Lorsque de notre Crète il traversa les flots,",p:66,x:89,y:1142,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Digne sujet des voeux des filles de Minos.",p:66,x:89,y:1174,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Que faisiez-vous alors ? Pourquoi sans Hyppolyte",p:66,x:89,y:1205,w:535,h:26},
{t:"Des héros de la Grèce assembla-t-il l'élite ?",p:66,x:89,y:1237,w:473,h:26},
{t:"64",p:67,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:67,x:94,y:84,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Madam, do not despair. You may still see",p:67,x:94,y:135,w:450,h:26},
{t:"great Theseus return to us. The skies",p:67,x:94,y:167,w:405,h:26},
{t:"620. for safe return will answer our fond sighs.",p:67,x:94,y:199,w:511,h:26},
{t:"Great Neptune is his god: he will not deign",p:67,x:94,y:230,w:466,h:26},
{t:"to let my father cry out long in vain.",p:67,x:94,y:262,w:395,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:67,x:94,y:314,w:104,h:26},
{t:"No man, not Theseus even, can see more",p:67,x:94,y:365,w:452,h:26},
{t:"than once, my lord, that dark and fatal shore.",p:67,x:94,y:397,w:499,h:26},
{t:"In vain you call on gods, for even they",p:67,x:94,y:429,w:420,h:26},
{t:"cannot unfasten Acheron from prey.",p:67,x:94,y:460,w:392,h:26},
{t:"What do I say? He lives. I feel in you",p:67,x:94,y:492,w:402,h:26},
{t:"my husband springs before my fevered view.",p:67,x:94,y:524,w:491,h:26},
{t:"I see, I speak to him, my heart  can feel",p:67,x:94,y:555,w:440,h:26},
{t:"630. the floods of passion that it won’t conceal.",p:67,x:94,y:587,w:517,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:67,x:94,y:639,w:138,h:26},
{t:"I see your love’s phenomenal effect",p:67,x:94,y:690,w:388,h:26},
{t:"that in me Theseus you must detect",p:67,x:94,y:722,w:393,h:26},
{t:"and so the recollections will renew.",p:67,x:94,y:754,w:381,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:67,x:94,y:805,w:104,h:26},
{t:"I long for Theseus, yes, that’s true",p:67,x:94,y:857,w:376,h:26},
{t:"but not as Hades views him and maligns",p:67,x:94,y:889,w:440,h:26},
{t:"as fickle worshipper at countless shrines,",p:67,x:94,y:920,w:446,h:26},
{t:"as one to ravish even Pluto’s bride,",p:67,x:94,y:952,w:383,h:26},
{t:"but faithful, truthful and untamed in pride,",p:67,x:94,y:984,w:463,h:26},
{t:"with charm to lead our wandering hearts astray,",p:67,x:94,y:1015,w:525,h:26},
{t:"640.  as we depict our gods and you portray.",p:67,x:94,y:1047,w:491,h:26},
{t:"He had your eyes, your speech, your walking grace,",p:67,x:94,y:1079,w:567,h:26},
{t:"your modesty that brings its colour to the face,",p:67,x:94,y:1110,w:514,h:26},
{t:"as drawn across the waves to childhood Crete",p:67,x:94,y:1142,w:499,h:26},
{t:"you set there Minos’ daughter’s hearts abeat.",p:67,x:94,y:1174,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Where were you then, why no Hippolytus",p:67,x:94,y:1205,w:449,h:26},
{t:"among the heroes Greece had brought for us?",p:67,x:94,y:1237,w:502,h:26},
{t:"65",p:68,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Pourquoi, trop jeune encor, ne pûtes-vous alors",p:68,x:89,y:84,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Entrer dans le vaisseau qui le mit sur nos bords ?",p:68,x:89,y:115,w:537,h:26},
{t:"Par vous aurait péri le monstre de la Crète,",p:68,x:89,y:147,w:471,h:26},
{t:"650. Malgré tous les détours de sa vaste retraite.",p:68,x:89,y:179,w:536,h:26},
{t:"Pour en développer l'embarras incertain,",p:68,x:89,y:210,w:443,h:26},
{t:"Ma soeur du fil fatal eût armé votre main.",p:68,x:89,y:242,w:455,h:26},
{t:"Mais non, dans ce dessein je l'aurais devancée :",p:68,x:89,y:274,w:525,h:26},
{t:"L'amour m'en eût d'abord inspiré la pensée.",p:68,x:89,y:305,w:480,h:26},
{t:"C'est moi, Prince, c'est moi dont l'utile secours",p:68,x:89,y:337,w:509,h:26},
{t:"Vous eût du Labyrinthe enseigné les détours.",p:68,x:89,y:369,w:491,h:26},
{t:"Que de soins m'eût coûté cette tête charmante !",p:68,x:89,y:400,w:527,h:26},
{t:"Un fil n'eût point assez rassuré votre amante.",p:68,x:89,y:432,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Compagne du péril qu'il vous fallait chercher,",p:68,x:89,y:464,w:494,h:26},
{t:"660. Moi-même devant vous j'aurais voulu marcher ;",p:68,x:89,y:495,w:580,h:26},
{t:"Et Phèdre, au Labyrinthe avec vous descendue,",p:68,x:89,y:527,w:516,h:26},
{t:"Se serait avec vous retrouvée ou perdue.",p:68,x:89,y:559,w:449,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:68,x:89,y:610,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Dieux ! qu'est-ce que j'entends ? Madame, oubliez-vous",p:68,x:89,y:662,w:611,h:26},
{t:"Que Thésée est mon père et qu'il est votre époux ?",p:68,x:89,y:694,w:557,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:68,x:89,y:745,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Et sur quoi jugez-vous que j'en perds la mémoire,",p:68,x:89,y:797,w:546,h:26},
{t:"Prince ? Aurais-je perdu tout le soin de ma gloire; ?",p:68,x:89,y:829,w:563,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:68,x:89,y:880,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Madame, pardonnez. J'avoue, en rougissant,",p:68,x:89,y:932,w:488,h:26},
{t:"Que j'accusais à tort un discours innocent.",p:68,x:89,y:964,w:461,h:26},
{t:"Ma honte ne peut plus soutenir votre vue ;",p:68,x:89,y:995,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Et je vais...",p:68,x:89,y:1027,w:124,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:68,x:89,y:1079,w:88,h:26},
{t:"670. Ah ! cruel, tu m'as trop entendue.",p:68,x:89,y:1130,w:426,h:26},
{t:"Je t'en ai dit assez pour te tirer d'erreur.",p:68,x:89,y:1162,w:441,h:26},
{t:"Hé bien ! connais donc Phèdre et toute sa fureur.",p:68,x:89,y:1194,w:535,h:26},
{t:"J'aime. Ne pense pas qu'au moment que je t'aime,",p:68,x:89,y:1225,w:553,h:26},
{t:"Innocente à mes yeux je m'approuve moi-même,",p:68,x:89,y:1257,w:539,h:26},
{t:"66",p:69,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Why were you then too young; is that the cause",p:69,x:94,y:84,w:525,h:26},
{t:"you never ventured to our fateful shores?",p:69,x:94,y:115,w:453,h:26},
{t:"You would have killed the Cretan monster there",p:69,x:94,y:147,w:520,h:26},
{t:"650. despite the endless windings of his lair.",p:69,x:94,y:179,w:485,h:26},
{t:"To help you wondering where the turnings led",p:69,x:94,y:210,w:500,h:26},
{t:"would be my sister armed with such a thread",p:69,x:94,y:242,w:492,h:26},
{t:"that. . . no, I would have thought of that from first",p:69,x:94,y:274,w:552,h:26},
{t:"and been by simple love of you rehearsed.",p:69,x:94,y:305,w:464,h:26},
{t:"I, Prince, would have drawn you through the maze",p:69,x:94,y:337,w:553,h:26},
{t:"and taught you all its labyrinthine ways.",p:69,x:94,y:369,w:437,h:26},
{t:"The love I would have borne for that dear head",p:69,x:94,y:400,w:514,h:26},
{t:"would not have trusted to a single thread",p:69,x:94,y:432,w:450,h:26},
{t:"but shared with you each peril that there stalked,",p:69,x:94,y:464,w:538,h:26},
{t:"660. so proud in front of you I would have walked:",p:69,x:94,y:495,w:555,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra in the labyrinth would meet",p:69,x:94,y:527,w:395,h:26},
{t:"a path to safety with you or defeat.",p:69,x:94,y:559,w:385,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:69,x:94,y:610,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Dear gods, what do I hear? Such words that run",p:69,x:94,y:662,w:527,h:26},
{t:"from one who is his wife, as I am son.",p:69,x:94,y:694,w:416,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:69,x:94,y:745,w:104,h:26},
{t:"You think I have forgotten what I claim",p:69,x:94,y:797,w:427,h:26},
{t:"and am not mindful of my own great name?",p:69,x:94,y:829,w:479,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:69,x:94,y:880,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Forgive me, Madam. Blushing, I confess",p:69,x:94,y:932,w:437,h:26},
{t:"I wronged an all-too-innocent address,",p:69,x:94,y:964,w:423,h:26},
{t:"for which I feel more shame than I can tell.",p:69,x:94,y:995,w:473,h:26},
{t:"I go. . .",p:69,x:94,y:1027,w:82,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:69,x:94,y:1079,w:104,h:26},
{t:"670. You understood me all too well,",p:69,x:94,y:1130,w:400,h:26},
{t:"you wretch: my words allowed no room for doubt.",p:69,x:94,y:1162,w:547,h:26},
{t:"But now that Phaedra’s wild desires are out,",p:69,x:94,y:1194,w:481,h:26},
{t:"do not suppose that as I speak, the fire",p:69,x:94,y:1225,w:430,h:26},
{t:"appears with innocence that I’d desire,",p:69,x:94,y:1257,w:423,h:26},
{t:"67",p:70,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Ni que du fol amour qui trouble ma raison",p:70,x:89,y:84,w:457,h:26},
{t:"Ma lâche complaisance ait nourri le poison.",p:70,x:89,y:115,w:468,h:26},
{t:"Objet infortuné des vengeances célestes,",p:70,x:89,y:147,w:447,h:26},
{t:"Je m'abhorre encor plus que tu ne me détestes.",p:70,x:89,y:179,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Les Dieux m'en sont témoins, ces Dieux qui dans mon flanc",p:70,x:89,y:210,w:649,h:26},
{t:"680. Ont allumé le feu fatal à tout mon sang,",p:70,x:89,y:242,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Ces Dieux qui se sont fait une gloire; cruelle",p:70,x:89,y:274,w:482,h:26},
{t:"De séduire le coeur d'une faible mortelle.",p:70,x:89,y:305,w:449,h:26},
{t:"Toi-même en ton esprit rappelle le passé.",p:70,x:89,y:337,w:454,h:26},
{t:"C'est peu de t'avoir fui, cruel, je t'ai chassé.",p:70,x:89,y:369,w:480,h:26},
{t:"J'ai voulu te paraître odieuse, inhumaine.",p:70,x:89,y:400,w:450,h:26},
{t:"Pour mieux te résister, j'ai recherché ta haine.",p:70,x:89,y:432,w:506,h:26},
{t:"De quoi m'ont profité mes inutiles soins ?",p:70,x:89,y:464,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Tu me haïssais plus, je ne t'aimais pas moins.",p:70,x:89,y:495,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Tes malheurs te prêtaient encor de nouveaux charmes.",p:70,x:89,y:527,w:601,h:26},
{t:"690. J'ai langui, j'ai séché, dans les feux, dans les larmes.",p:70,x:89,y:559,w:633,h:26},
{t:"Il suffit de tes yeux pour t'en persuader,",p:70,x:89,y:590,w:441,h:26},
{t:"Si tes yeux un moment pouvaient me regarder.",p:70,x:89,y:622,w:518,h:26},
{t:"Que dis-je ? Cet aveu que je viens de te faire,",p:70,x:89,y:654,w:502,h:26},
{t:"Cet aveu si honteux, le crois-tu volontaire ?",p:70,x:89,y:685,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Tremblante pour un fils que je n'osais trahir,",p:70,x:89,y:717,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Je te venais prier de ne le point haïr.",p:70,x:89,y:749,w:400,h:26},
{t:"Faibles projets d'un coeur trop plein de ce qu'il aime !",p:70,x:89,y:780,w:586,h:26},
{t:"Hélas ! je ne t'ai pu parler que de toi-même.",p:70,x:89,y:812,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Venge-toi, punis-moi d'un odieux amour.",p:70,x:89,y:844,w:448,h:26},
{t:"700. Digne fils du héros qui t'a donné le jour,",p:70,x:89,y:875,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Délivre l'univers d'un monstre qui t'irrite.",p:70,x:89,y:907,w:449,h:26},
{t:"La veuve de Thésée ose aimer Hippolyte !",p:70,x:89,y:939,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Crois-moi, ce monstre affreux ne doit point t'échapper.",p:70,x:89,y:970,w:600,h:26},
{t:"Voilà mon coeur. C'est là que ta main doit frapper.",p:70,x:89,y:1002,w:552,h:26},
{t:"Impatient déjà d'expier son offense,",p:70,x:89,y:1034,w:394,h:26},
{t:"Au-devant de ton bras je le sens qui s'avance.",p:70,x:89,y:1065,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Frappe. Ou si tu le crois indigne de tes coups,",p:70,x:89,y:1097,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Si ta haine m'envie un supplice si doux,",p:70,x:89,y:1129,w:432,h:26},
{t:"Ou si d'un sang trop vil ta main serait trempée,",p:70,x:89,y:1160,w:517,h:26},
{t:"710. Au défaut de ton bras prête-moi ton épée.",p:70,x:89,y:1192,w:517,h:26},
{t:"Donne.",p:70,x:89,y:1224,w:78,h:26},
{t:"68",p:71,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"or that the madness threatening to spill",p:71,x:94,y:84,w:431,h:26},
{t:"from reason came from my compliant will.",p:71,x:94,y:115,w:462,h:26},
{t:"A wretched victim of the gods, you see",p:71,x:94,y:147,w:424,h:26},
{t:"me hate myself far worse than you hate me.",p:71,x:94,y:179,w:486,h:26},
{t:"As gods are witnesses, this breast of mine",p:71,x:94,y:210,w:460,h:26},
{t:"was seared with fire that’s fatal to my line.",p:71,x:94,y:242,w:465,h:26},
{t:"The gods it is, that in their glorious play",p:71,x:94,y:274,w:435,h:26},
{t:"would draw the mortal hearts of us astray.",p:71,x:94,y:305,w:464,h:26},
{t:"You know the past. Recall, what did I do?",p:71,x:94,y:337,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Not mere avoided but I hounded you.",p:71,x:94,y:369,w:410,h:26},
{t:"I made myself so vile you’d understand",p:71,x:94,y:400,w:430,h:26},
{t:"the more to hate me, I to more withstand",p:71,x:94,y:432,w:456,h:26},
{t:"your charms, your manliness, but I confess",p:71,x:94,y:464,w:472,h:26},
{t:"with hate indeed I did not love you less.",p:71,x:94,y:495,w:437,h:26},
{t:"Misfortune at my hands conspired with fears",p:71,x:94,y:527,w:483,h:26},
{t:"690. of more attraction. True. Such fire, such tears!",p:71,x:94,y:559,w:565,h:26},
{t:"If you would look at me, your eyes would lay",p:71,x:94,y:590,w:491,h:26},
{t:"the truth self-evident in what I say.",p:71,x:94,y:622,w:387,h:26},
{t:"You think that what is rudely forced from me,",p:71,x:94,y:654,w:496,h:26},
{t:"as vile and shameful, could be voluntary?",p:71,x:94,y:685,w:452,h:26},
{t:"I, trembling for a son I dare not fail,",p:71,x:94,y:717,w:396,h:26},
{t:"had hoped my supplications would prevail;",p:71,x:94,y:749,w:466,h:26},
{t:"but heart, so full of you, what could it do",p:71,x:94,y:780,w:445,h:26},
{t:"but think and talk of no one else but you?",p:71,x:94,y:812,w:455,h:26},
{t:"Revenge yourself on such an odious one",p:71,x:94,y:844,w:438,h:26},
{t:"700. and rid the world, as would a hero’s son,",p:71,x:94,y:875,w:501,h:26},
{t:"of her who dared to love Hippolytus,",p:71,x:94,y:907,w:397,h:26},
{t:"this monster wife of Theseus that was.",p:71,x:94,y:939,w:420,h:26},
{t:"How terrible to let this wretch go free.",p:71,x:94,y:970,w:417,h:26},
{t:"Here is the heart to strike, your hand must see",p:71,x:94,y:1002,w:512,h:26},
{t:"it keen to expiate its lurid harm.",p:71,x:94,y:1034,w:351,h:26},
{t:"Impatiently it leans towards your arm.",p:71,x:94,y:1065,w:420,h:26},
{t:"Strike. But if unworthy of your blows,",p:71,x:94,y:1097,w:409,h:26},
{t:"if thought too soft a torture with it goes,",p:71,x:94,y:1129,w:441,h:26},
{t:"or mine’s a blood too wicked and abhorred",p:71,x:94,y:1160,w:465,h:26},
{t:"710, to stain your hand with, give the arm or sword",p:71,x:94,y:1192,w:565,h:26},
{t:"to me.",p:71,x:94,y:1224,w:71,h:26},
{t:"69",p:72,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OENONE",p:72,x:89,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Que faites-vous, Madame ? Justes Dieux !",p:72,x:89,y:135,w:458,h:26},
{t:"Mais on vient. Evitez des témoins odieux ;",p:72,x:89,y:167,w:460,h:26},
{t:"710. Venez, rentrez, fuyez une honte certaine.",p:72,x:89,y:199,w:509,h:26},
{t:"Scène 6",p:72,x:89,y:293,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Hippolyte, Théramène",p:72,x:89,y:356,w:269,h:30},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:72,x:89,y:443,w:142,h:30},
{t:"Est-ce Phèdre qui fuit, ou plutôt qu'on entraîne ?",p:72,x:89,y:495,w:531,h:26},
{t:"Pourquoi, Seigneur, pourquoi ces marques de douleur ?",p:72,x:89,y:527,w:606,h:26},
{t:"Je vous vois sans épée, interdit, sans couleur ?",p:72,x:89,y:559,w:513,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:72,x:89,y:610,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Théramène, fuyons. Ma surprise est extrême.",p:72,x:89,y:662,w:496,h:26},
{t:"Je ne puis sans horreur me regarder moi-même.",p:72,x:89,y:694,w:529,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre... Mais non, grands Dieux ! qu'en un profond oubli",p:72,x:89,y:725,w:631,h:26},
{t:"720. Cet horrible secret demeure enseveli.",p:72,x:89,y:757,w:464,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:72,x:89,y:809,w:134,h:26},
{t:"Si vous voulez partir, la voile est préparée.",p:72,x:89,y:860,w:468,h:26},
{t:"Mais Athènes, Seigneur, s'est déjà déclarée.",p:72,x:89,y:892,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Ses chefs ont pris les voix de toutes ses tribus.",p:72,x:89,y:924,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Votre frère l'emporte, et Phèdre a le dessus.",p:72,x:89,y:955,w:484,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:72,x:89,y:1007,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre ?",p:72,x:89,y:1059,w:94,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:72,x:89,y:1110,w:134,h:26},
{t:"Un héraut chargé des volontés d'Athènes",p:72,x:89,y:1162,w:446,h:26},
{t:"De l'Etat en ses mains vient remettre les rênes.",p:72,x:89,y:1194,w:518,h:26},
{t:"Son fils est roi, Seigneur.",p:72,x:89,y:1225,w:276,h:26},
{t:"70",p:73,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"OENONE",p:73,x:94,y:84,w:93,h:26},
{t:"For God’s sake come, my queen, unless",p:73,x:94,y:135,w:434,h:26},
{t:"you want the shame of harmful witnesses.",p:73,x:94,y:167,w:461,h:26},
{t:"710. Now flee immediately this fearful place.",p:73,x:94,y:199,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Scene 6",p:73,x:94,y:293,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Hippolytus, Theramenes",p:73,x:94,y:356,w:287,h:30},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:73,x:94,y:443,w:154,h:30},
{t:"Was that Queen Phaedra that I saw a space",p:73,x:94,y:495,w:475,h:26},
{t:"back hastening from you, who has left you, lord,",p:73,x:94,y:527,w:529,h:26},
{t:"bereft of words and colour and your sword.",p:73,x:94,y:559,w:471,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:73,x:94,y:610,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Let’s go from here, Theramenes.",p:73,x:94,y:662,w:356,h:26},
{t:"I hardly now know who I am, but seize",p:73,x:94,y:694,w:425,h:26},
{t:"on horror . . . Phaedra. . . no, let what I’ve seen",p:73,x:94,y:725,w:527,h:26},
{t:"720. be left forgotten in this dreadful scene.",p:73,x:94,y:757,w:480,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:73,x:94,y:809,w:149,h:26},
{t:"If, Prince, you wish to go, the sails are spread,",p:73,x:94,y:860,w:509,h:26},
{t:"but Athens has considered, voted, said,",p:73,x:94,y:892,w:430,h:26},
{t:"with all the chiefs of clans, it is her son",p:73,x:94,y:924,w:424,h:26},
{t:"your brother who’s elected: Phaedra’s won.",p:73,x:94,y:955,w:473,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:73,x:94,y:1007,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra?",p:73,x:94,y:1059,w:99,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:73,x:94,y:1110,w:149,h:26},
{t:"I have watched a herald land",p:73,x:94,y:1162,w:316,h:26},
{t:"to put the mace of statehood in her hand.",p:73,x:94,y:1194,w:455,h:26},
{t:"Her son is king.",p:73,x:94,y:1225,w:170,h:26},
{t:"71",p:74,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:74,x:89,y:84,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Dieux, qui la connaissez,",p:74,x:89,y:135,w:269,h:26},
{t:"Est-ce donc sa vertu que vous récompensez ?",p:74,x:89,y:167,w:498,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:74,x:89,y:219,w:134,h:26},
{t:"Cependant un bruit sourd veut que le Roi respire.",p:74,x:89,y:270,w:539,h:26},
{t:"730. On prétend que Thésée a paru dans l'Epire.",p:74,x:89,y:302,w:529,h:26},
{t:"Mais moi qui l'y cherchai, Seigneur, je sais trop bien...",p:74,x:89,y:334,w:593,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:74,x:89,y:385,w:121,h:26},
{t:"N'importe, écoutons tout, et ne négligeons rien.",p:74,x:89,y:437,w:522,h:26},
{t:"Examinons ce bruit, remontons à sa source.",p:74,x:89,y:469,w:479,h:26},
{t:"S'il ne mérite pas d'interrompre ma course,",p:74,x:89,y:500,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Partons ; et quelque prix qu'il en puisse coûter,",p:74,x:89,y:532,w:517,h:26},
{t:"Mettons le sceptre aux mains dignes de le porter.",p:74,x:89,y:564,w:539,h:26},
{t:"72",p:75,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:75,x:94,y:84,w:138,h:26},
{t:"How justice hurts",p:75,x:94,y:135,w:189,h:26},
{t:"if this is how the good get their deserts.",p:75,x:94,y:167,w:435,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:75,x:94,y:219,w:149,h:26},
{t:"And yet a rumour fills our seas between",p:75,x:94,y:270,w:435,h:26},
{t:"730. that in Epirus Theseus has been seen,",p:75,x:94,y:302,w:470,h:26},
{t:"although I searched that place so well before.",p:75,x:94,y:334,w:497,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:75,x:94,y:385,w:138,h:26},
{t:"If such is needed let us search once more,",p:75,x:94,y:437,w:461,h:26},
{t:"but first trace back the rumour to its source",p:75,x:94,y:469,w:477,h:26},
{t:"to see if something new must stay our course.",p:75,x:94,y:500,w:506,h:26},
{t:"If not we sail, and, cost what price it may,",p:75,x:94,y:532,w:461,h:26},
{t:"we’ll place in worthier hands the sceptre’s sway.",p:75,x:94,y:564,w:527,h:26},
{t:"73",p:76,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ACTE TROISIEME",p:76,x:89,y:121,w:240,h:37},
{t:"Scène 1",p:76,x:89,y:237,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phèdre, Oenone",p:76,x:89,y:290,w:174,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:76,x:89,y:393,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! que l'on porte ailleurs les honneurs qu'on m'envoie.",p:76,x:89,y:445,w:615,h:26},
{t:"Importune, peux-tu souhaiter qu'on me voie ?",p:76,x:89,y:477,w:504,h:26},
{t:"De quoi viens-tu flatter mon esprit désolé ?",p:76,x:89,y:508,w:473,h:26},
{t:"740. Cache-moi bien plutôt, je n'ai que trop parlé.",p:76,x:89,y:540,w:548,h:26},
{t:"Mes fureurs au-dehors ont osé se répandre.",p:76,x:89,y:572,w:477,h:26},
{t:"J'ai dit ce que jamais on ne devait entendre.",p:76,x:89,y:603,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Ciel ! comme il m'écoutait ! Par combien de détours",p:76,x:89,y:635,w:565,h:26},
{t:"L'insensible a longtemps éludé mes discours !",p:76,x:89,y:667,w:498,h:26},
{t:"Comme il ne respirait qu'une retraite prompte !",p:76,x:89,y:698,w:517,h:26},
{t:"Et combien sa rougeur a redoublé ma honte !",p:76,x:89,y:730,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Pourquoi détournais-tu mon funeste dessein ?",p:76,x:89,y:762,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Hélas ! quand son épée allait chercher mon sein,",p:76,x:89,y:793,w:531,h:26},
{t:"A-t-il pâli pour moi ? me l'a-t-il arrachée ?",p:76,x:89,y:825,w:461,h:26},
{t:"750. Il suffit que ma main l'ait une fois touchée,",p:76,x:89,y:857,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Je l'ai rendue horrible à ses yeux inhumains ;",p:76,x:89,y:888,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Et ce fer malheureux profanerait ses mains.",p:76,x:89,y:920,w:477,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:76,x:89,y:972,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Ainsi dans vos malheurs ne songeant qu'à vous plaindre,",p:76,x:89,y:1023,w:619,h:26},
{t:"Vous nourrissez un feu qu'il vous faudrait éteindre.",p:76,x:89,y:1055,w:555,h:26},
{t:"Ne vaudrait-il pas mieux, digne sang de Minos,",p:76,x:89,y:1087,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Dans de plus nobles soins chercher votre repos,",p:76,x:89,y:1118,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Contre un ingrat qui plaît recourir à la fuite,",p:76,x:89,y:1150,w:477,h:26},
{t:"Régner, et de l'Etat embrasser la conduite ?",p:76,x:89,y:1182,w:478,h:26},
{t:"74",p:77,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ACT THREE",p:77,x:94,y:121,w:157,h:37},
{t:"Scene 1",p:77,x:94,y:237,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phaedre, Oenone",p:77,x:94,y:290,w:186,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRE",p:77,x:94,y:393,w:103,h:26},
{t:"No, dispense with honours they have sent,",p:77,x:94,y:445,w:465,h:26},
{t:"I need no solaces they represent.",p:77,x:94,y:477,w:365,h:26},
{t:"Why flatter me with this incongruous touch",p:77,x:94,y:508,w:469,h:26},
{t:"740. who’d hide herself but finds she’s said too much?",p:77,x:94,y:540,w:592,h:26},
{t:"My inner furies bursting out have spelt",p:77,x:94,y:572,w:421,h:26},
{t:"the very words of what he should have felt",p:77,x:94,y:603,w:466,h:26},
{t:"but was repelled, feigned ignorance, misread",p:77,x:94,y:635,w:490,h:26},
{t:"the very fervour in the things I said.",p:77,x:94,y:667,w:395,h:26},
{t:"He blushed, evaded me, and longed to go,",p:77,x:94,y:698,w:464,h:26},
{t:"which caused my all-too burning guilt to show.",p:77,x:94,y:730,w:510,h:26},
{t:"Why did you stop the blade as on it pressed",p:77,x:94,y:762,w:478,h:26},
{t:"for access to this bared and waiting breast —",p:77,x:94,y:793,w:492,h:26},
{t:"and did he pale or quick snatch back the blade?",p:77,x:94,y:825,w:520,h:26},
{t:"750. Too late! I touched it, and that touch has made",p:77,x:94,y:857,w:573,h:26},
{t:"the thing unworthy of his hands and stained,",p:77,x:94,y:888,w:488,h:26},
{t:"and to his cold, inhuman eyes profaned.",p:77,x:94,y:920,w:438,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:77,x:94,y:972,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Why turn these sad reverses round about",p:77,x:94,y:1023,w:451,h:26},
{t:"to nurture longings that you should put out?",p:77,x:94,y:1055,w:482,h:26},
{t:"Surely the blood of Minos’ kings can find",p:77,x:94,y:1087,w:441,h:26},
{t:"a worthier object for its peace of mind.",p:77,x:94,y:1118,w:424,h:26},
{t:"The ingrate flees you: you have loved in vain:",p:77,x:94,y:1150,w:501,h:26},
{t:"why not assume the governance, and reign.",p:77,x:94,y:1182,w:479,h:26},
{t:"75",p:78,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:78,x:89,y:84,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Moi régner ! Moi ranger un Etat sous ma loi,",p:78,x:89,y:135,w:480,h:26},
{t:"760. Quand ma faible raison ne règne plus sur moi !",p:78,x:89,y:167,w:570,h:26},
{t:"Lorsque j'ai de mes sens abandonné l'empire !",p:78,x:89,y:199,w:507,h:26},
{t:"Quand sous un joug honteux à peine je respire !",p:78,x:89,y:230,w:526,h:26},
{t:"Quand je me meurs !",p:78,x:89,y:262,w:232,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:78,x:89,y:314,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Fuyez.",p:78,x:89,y:365,w:70,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:78,x:89,y:417,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Je ne le puis quitter.",p:78,x:89,y:469,w:222,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:78,x:89,y:520,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Vous l'osâtes bannir, vous n'osez l'éviter.",p:78,x:89,y:572,w:449,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:78,x:89,y:624,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Il n'est plus temps. Il sait mes ardeurs insensées.",p:78,x:89,y:675,w:542,h:26},
{t:"De l'austère pudeur les bornes sont passées.",p:78,x:89,y:707,w:488,h:26},
{t:"J'ai déclaré ma honte aux yeux de mon vainqueur,",p:78,x:89,y:739,w:551,h:26},
{t:"Et l'espoir, malgré moi, s'est glissé dans mon coeur.",p:78,x:89,y:770,w:570,h:26},
{t:"Toi-même, rappelant ma force défaillante,",p:78,x:89,y:802,w:460,h:26},
{t:"770. Et mon âme déjà sur mes lèvres errante,",p:78,x:89,y:834,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Par tes conseils flatteurs tu m'as su ranimer.",p:78,x:89,y:865,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Tu m'as fait entrevoir que je pouvais l'aimer.",p:78,x:89,y:897,w:489,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:78,x:89,y:949,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Hélas ! de vos malheurs innocente ou coupable,",p:78,x:89,y:1000,w:521,h:26},
{t:"De quoi pour vous sauver n'étais-je point capable ?",p:78,x:89,y:1032,w:560,h:26},
{t:"Mais si jamais l'offense irrita vos esprits,",p:78,x:89,y:1064,w:443,h:26},
{t:"Pouvez-vous d'un superbe oublier les mépris ?",p:78,x:89,y:1095,w:506,h:26},
{t:"Avec quels yeux cruels sa rigueur obstinée",p:78,x:89,y:1127,w:464,h:26},
{t:"Vous laissait à ses pieds peu s'en faut prosternée !",p:78,x:89,y:1159,w:552,h:26},
{t:"Que son farouche orgueil le rendait odieux !",p:78,x:89,y:1190,w:478,h:26},
{t:"780. Que Phèdre en ce moment n'avait-elle mes yeux !",p:78,x:89,y:1222,w:602,h:26},
{t:"76",p:79,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:79,x:94,y:84,w:104,h:26},
{t:"What, reign, and have a state in my control",p:79,x:94,y:135,w:474,h:26},
{t:"760. when reason no more lingers in my soul?",p:79,x:94,y:167,w:504,h:26},
{t:"I’ve lost the empire of my senses; weight",p:79,x:94,y:199,w:452,h:26},
{t:"of shame oppresses me; I suffocate;",p:79,x:94,y:230,w:400,h:26},
{t:"I die.",p:79,x:94,y:262,w:57,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:79,x:94,y:314,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Then flee.",p:79,x:94,y:365,w:108,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:79,x:94,y:417,w:104,h:26},
{t:"What the heart loves?  How?",p:79,x:94,y:469,w:312,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:79,x:94,y:520,w:93,h:26},
{t:"You dared to banish once, so do so now.",p:79,x:94,y:572,w:441,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:79,x:94,y:624,w:104,h:26},
{t:"Too late. He knows what fervour burns in me",p:79,x:94,y:675,w:491,h:26},
{t:"beyond what’s possible for modesty.",p:79,x:94,y:707,w:398,h:26},
{t:"Before my conqueror I stand undressed",p:79,x:94,y:739,w:432,h:26},
{t:"by hope that slipped unwanted from my breast.",p:79,x:94,y:770,w:520,h:26},
{t:"Recall that when my force was in eclipse,",p:79,x:94,y:802,w:448,h:26},
{t:"770. and soul was waiting at expiring lips,",p:79,x:94,y:834,w:458,h:26},
{t:"your words and flattering counsels took it in:",p:79,x:94,y:865,w:489,h:26},
{t:"there now is life, you said, without the sin.",p:79,x:94,y:897,w:465,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:79,x:94,y:949,w:93,h:26},
{t:"The blame for these or not I leave to you,",p:79,x:94,y:1000,w:456,h:26},
{t:"but saving you is always what I’d do.",p:79,x:94,y:1032,w:404,h:26},
{t:"From insults majesty is not exempt",p:79,x:94,y:1064,w:384,h:26},
{t:"but who could overlook that youth’s contempt?",p:79,x:94,y:1095,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Those fixed and cruel eyes one couldn’t meet",p:79,x:94,y:1127,w:492,h:26},
{t:"that left you well-nigh prostrate at his feet.",p:79,x:94,y:1159,w:470,h:26},
{t:"An ill-bred arrogance he’d not have hid",p:79,x:94,y:1190,w:426,h:26},
{t:"780. if you had seen him, Madam, as I did.",p:79,x:94,y:1222,w:470,h:26},
{t:"77",p:80,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:80,x:89,y:84,w:88,h:26},
{t:"OEnone, il peut quitter cet orgueil qui te blesse.",p:80,x:89,y:135,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Nourri dans les forêts, il en a la rudesse.",p:80,x:89,y:167,w:442,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte, endurci par de sauvages lois,",p:80,x:89,y:199,w:436,h:26},
{t:"Entend parler d'amour pour la première fois.",p:80,x:89,y:230,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Peut-être sa surprise a causé son silence,",p:80,x:89,y:262,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Et nos plaintes peut-être ont trop de violence.",p:80,x:89,y:294,w:501,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:80,x:89,y:345,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Songez qu'une barbare en son sein l'a formé.",p:80,x:89,y:397,w:494,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:80,x:89,y:449,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Quoique Scythe et barbare, elle a pourtant aimé.",p:80,x:89,y:500,w:534,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:80,x:89,y:552,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Il a pour tout le sexe une haine fatale.",p:80,x:89,y:604,w:417,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:80,x:89,y:655,w:88,h:26},
{t:"790. Je ne me verrai point préférer de rivale.",p:80,x:89,y:707,w:491,h:26},
{t:"Enfin tous tes conseils ne sont plus de saison.",p:80,x:89,y:739,w:498,h:26},
{t:"Sers ma fureur, OEnone, et non point ma raison.",p:80,x:89,y:770,w:533,h:26},
{t:"Il oppose à l'amour un coeur inaccessible :",p:80,x:89,y:802,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Cherchons, pour l'attaquer, quelque endroit plus sensible.",p:80,x:89,y:834,w:630,h:26},
{t:"Les charmes d'un Empire ont paru le toucher ;",p:80,x:89,y:865,w:507,h:26},
{t:"Athènes l'attirait, il n'a su s'en cacher ;",p:80,x:89,y:897,w:426,h:26},
{t:"Déjà de ses vaisseaux la pointe était tournée,",p:80,x:89,y:929,w:498,h:26},
{t:"Et la voile flottait aux vents abandonnée.",p:80,x:89,y:960,w:446,h:26},
{t:"Va trouver de ma part ce jeune ambitieux,",p:80,x:89,y:992,w:464,h:26},
{t:"800. OEnone. Fais briller la couronne à ses yeux.",p:80,x:89,y:1024,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Qu'il mette sur son front le sacré diadème ;",p:80,x:89,y:1055,w:475,h:26},
{t:"Je ne veux que l'honneur de l'attacher moi-même.",p:80,x:89,y:1087,w:549,h:26},
{t:"Cédons-lui ce pouvoir que je ne puis garder.",p:80,x:89,y:1119,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Il instruira mon fils dans l'art de commander.",p:80,x:89,y:1150,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Peut-être il voudra bien lui tenir lieu de père.",p:80,x:89,y:1182,w:491,h:26},
{t:"Je mets sous son pouvoir et le fils et la mère.",p:80,x:89,y:1214,w:496,h:26},
{t:"78",p:81,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:81,x:94,y:84,w:104,h:26},
{t:"He’ll quit in time the pride that irritates",p:81,x:94,y:135,w:428,h:26},
{t:"you. Rough-hewn, brought up to the forest states,",p:81,x:94,y:167,w:549,h:26},
{t:"he’s wild, untutored and above all young:",p:81,x:94,y:199,w:453,h:26},
{t:"the suddenness of love has stopped his tongue.",p:81,x:94,y:230,w:518,h:26},
{t:"The sheer surprise of it has made him shy:",p:81,x:94,y:262,w:468,h:26},
{t:"we judge too violently with reasons why.",p:81,x:94,y:294,w:445,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:81,x:94,y:345,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What of that barbarian mother’s source?",p:81,x:94,y:397,w:440,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:81,x:94,y:449,w:104,h:26},
{t:"Scythian, barbarian, she felt its force.",p:81,x:94,y:500,w:410,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:81,x:94,y:552,w:93,h:26},
{t:"He holds a fierce aversion to our sex.",p:81,x:94,y:604,w:407,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:81,x:94,y:655,w:104,h:26},
{t:"790. I have no rival’s triumphs here to vex",p:81,x:94,y:707,w:467,h:26},
{t:"me. Come, Oenone, time to leave unsaid",p:81,x:94,y:739,w:447,h:26},
{t:"your counsels: serve my heart more, not my head.",p:81,x:94,y:770,w:556,h:26},
{t:"Through love he’s inaccessible? We’ll make a start",p:81,x:94,y:802,w:546,h:26},
{t:"of finding some new pathway to his heart.",p:81,x:94,y:834,w:460,h:26},
{t:"Athens attracts him, and he could not hide",p:81,x:94,y:865,w:464,h:26},
{t:"that ships of his were headed to her side.",p:81,x:94,y:897,w:451,h:26},
{t:"His sails are open to the winds that blow,",p:81,x:94,y:929,w:449,h:26},
{t:"so find this young, ambitious blood, and show",p:81,x:94,y:960,w:501,h:26},
{t:"the crown of Troezen to him, let the blaze",p:81,x:94,y:992,w:456,h:26},
{t:"800. of sacred diadem attract his gaze.",p:81,x:94,y:1024,w:426,h:26},
{t:"I ask to place it there, and be as bold",p:81,x:94,y:1055,w:408,h:26},
{t:"to cede to him the power I cannot hold.",p:81,x:94,y:1087,w:432,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus in time will maybe deign",p:81,x:94,y:1119,w:388,h:26},
{t:"to teach my son, as father, how to reign.",p:81,x:94,y:1150,w:446,h:26},
{t:"Myself, my son and everything I place.",p:81,x:94,y:1182,w:423,h:26},
{t:"as under him and subject to his grace.",p:81,x:94,y:1214,w:419,h:26},
{t:"79",p:82,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Pour le fléchir enfin tente tous les moyens :",p:82,x:89,y:84,w:475,h:26},
{t:"Tes discours trouveront plus d'accès que les miens.",p:82,x:89,y:115,w:559,h:26},
{t:"Presse, pleure, gémis, peins-lui Phèdre mourante,",p:82,x:89,y:147,w:546,h:26},
{t:"810. Ne rougis point de prendre une voix suppliante.",p:82,x:89,y:179,w:575,h:26},
{t:"Je t'avoûrai de tout ; je n'espère qu'en toi.",p:82,x:89,y:210,w:465,h:26},
{t:"Va, j'attends ton retour pour disposer de moi.",p:82,x:89,y:242,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Scène 2",p:82,x:89,y:327,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phèdre",p:82,x:89,y:380,w:75,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:82,x:89,y:432,w:88,h:26},
{t:"O toi, qui vois la honte où je suis descendue,",p:82,x:89,y:484,w:490,h:26},
{t:"Implacable Vénus, suis-je assez confondue ?",p:82,x:89,y:515,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Tu ne saurais plus loin pousser ta cruauté.",p:82,x:89,y:547,w:462,h:26},
{t:"Ton triomphe est parfait ; tous tes traits ont porté.",p:82,x:89,y:579,w:554,h:26},
{t:"Cruelle, si tu veux une gloire; nouvelle,",p:82,x:89,y:610,w:429,h:26},
{t:"Attaque un ennemi qui te soit plus rebelle.",p:82,x:89,y:642,w:463,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte te fuit, et bravant ton courroux,",p:82,x:89,y:674,w:456,h:26},
{t:"820. Jamais à tes autels n'a fléchi ses genoux.",p:82,x:89,y:705,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Ton nom semble offenser ses superbes oreilles.",p:82,x:89,y:737,w:517,h:26},
{t:"Déesse, venge-toi : nos causes sont pareilles.",p:82,x:89,y:769,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Qu'il aime. Mais déjà tu reviens sur tes pas,",p:82,x:89,y:800,w:478,h:26},
{t:"OEnone ? On me déteste, on ne t'écoute pas.",p:82,x:89,y:832,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Scène 3",p:82,x:89,y:894,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phèdre, Oenone",p:82,x:89,y:947,w:174,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:82,x:89,y:999,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Il faut d'un vain amour étouffer la pensée,",p:82,x:89,y:1050,w:462,h:26},
{t:"Madame. Rappelez votre vertu passée.",p:82,x:89,y:1082,w:424,h:26},
{t:"Le Roi, qu'on a cru mort, va paraître à vos yeux ;",p:82,x:89,y:1114,w:539,h:26},
{t:"Thésée est arrivé, Thésée est en ces lieux.",p:82,x:89,y:1145,w:462,h:26},
{t:"830. Le peuple, pour le voir, court et se précipite.",p:82,x:89,y:1177,w:542,h:26},
{t:"Je sortais par votre ordre, et cherchais Hippolyte ,",p:82,x:89,y:1209,w:547,h:26},
{t:"Lorsque jusques au ciel mille cris élancés...",p:82,x:89,y:1240,w:471,h:26},
{t:"80",p:83,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Adopt all means with him, he will incline",p:83,x:94,y:84,w:438,h:26},
{t:"much more to your entreaties than to mine.",p:83,x:94,y:115,w:479,h:26},
{t:"Urge, weep, depict for him a Phaedra dying,",p:83,x:94,y:147,w:482,h:26},
{t:"810. increase the supplication and the sighing,",p:83,x:94,y:179,w:508,h:26},
{t:"I’ll be the surety for that. I learn",p:83,x:94,y:210,w:354,h:26},
{t:"in your success  my fate. Till you return. . .",p:83,x:94,y:242,w:472,h:26},
{t:"Scène 2",p:83,x:94,y:327,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phaedre",p:83,x:94,y:380,w:88,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:83,x:94,y:432,w:104,h:26},
{t:"Venus, you see how much I am abused",p:83,x:94,y:484,w:428,h:26},
{t:"and shamed, brought down by you and badly used.",p:83,x:94,y:515,w:560,h:26},
{t:"So how much further will your cruelties go?",p:83,x:94,y:547,w:473,h:26},
{t:"Your shafts have found their mark, your triumphs show.",p:83,x:94,y:579,w:611,h:26},
{t:"Cruel one, to add new glory to your state",p:83,x:94,y:610,w:449,h:26},
{t:"attack an enemy more obdurate:",p:83,x:94,y:642,w:360,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus ignores you: still he flees",p:83,x:94,y:674,w:396,h:26},
{t:"820. who at your altar never bent his knees,",p:83,x:94,y:705,w:485,h:26},
{t:"his very ears offended by your name.",p:83,x:94,y:737,w:408,h:26},
{t:"Avenge yourself, our wants are much the same,",p:83,x:94,y:769,w:523,h:26},
{t:"and make him love. . . Oenone’s here again.",p:83,x:94,y:800,w:485,h:26},
{t:"So still he hates, and will not hear us then?",p:83,x:94,y:832,w:472,h:26},
{t:"Scene 3",p:83,x:94,y:894,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phaedre, Oenone",p:83,x:94,y:947,w:186,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:83,x:94,y:999,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Madame, your hopes of love must be suppressed.",p:83,x:94,y:1050,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Assume the virtue that you once possessed.",p:83,x:94,y:1082,w:480,h:26},
{t:"Theseus is not yet dead, but here",p:83,x:94,y:1114,w:365,h:26},
{t:"among us, all too shortly will appear.",p:83,x:94,y:1145,w:404,h:26},
{t:"The people welcome him. He comes to us",p:83,x:94,y:1177,w:453,h:26},
{t:"830. and in the tumult, seeking Hippolytus,",p:83,x:94,y:1209,w:473,h:26},
{t:"I heard a thousand voices mount the air.",p:83,x:94,y:1240,w:445,h:26},
{t:"81",p:84,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:84,x:89,y:84,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Mon époux est vivant, OEnone, c'est assez.",p:84,x:89,y:135,w:472,h:26},
{t:"J'ai fait l'indigne aveu d'un amour qui l'outrage,",p:84,x:89,y:167,w:519,h:26},
{t:"Il vit. Je ne veux pas en savoir davantage.",p:84,x:89,y:199,w:463,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:84,x:89,y:250,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Quoi ?",p:84,x:89,y:302,w:69,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:84,x:89,y:354,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Je te l'ai prédit, mais tu n'as pas voulu.",p:84,x:89,y:405,w:428,h:26},
{t:"Sur mes justes remords tes pleurs ont prévalu.",p:84,x:89,y:437,w:514,h:26},
{t:"Je mourais ce matin digne d'être pleurée ;",p:84,x:89,y:469,w:462,h:26},
{t:"J'ai suivi tes conseils, je meurs déshonorée.",p:84,x:89,y:500,w:477,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:84,x:89,y:552,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Vous mourez ?",p:84,x:89,y:604,w:161,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:84,x:89,y:655,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Juste ciel ! qu'ai-je fait aujourd'hui ?",p:84,x:89,y:707,w:397,h:26},
{t:"840. Mon époux va paraître, et son fils avec lui.",p:84,x:89,y:739,w:520,h:26},
{t:"Je verrai le témoin de ma flamme adultère",p:84,x:89,y:770,w:464,h:26},
{t:"Observer de quel front j'ose aborder son père,",p:84,x:89,y:802,w:506,h:26},
{t:"Le coeur gros de soupirs qu'il n'a point écoutés,",p:84,x:89,y:834,w:521,h:26},
{t:"L'oeil humide de pleurs par l'ingrat rebutés.",p:84,x:89,y:865,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Penses-tu que sensible à l'honneur de Thésée,",p:84,x:89,y:897,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Il lui cache l'ardeur dont je suis embrasée ?",p:84,x:89,y:929,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Laissera-t-il trahir et son père et son roi ?",p:84,x:89,y:960,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Pourra-t-il contenir l'horreur qu'il a pour moi ?",p:84,x:89,y:992,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Il se tairait en vain. Je sais mes perfidies,",p:84,x:89,y:1024,w:453,h:26},
{t:"850. Oenone, et ne suis point de ces femmes hardies",p:84,x:89,y:1055,w:580,h:26},
{t:"Qui goûtant dans le crime une tranquille paix,",p:84,x:89,y:1087,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Ont su se faire un front qui ne rougit jamais.",p:84,x:89,y:1119,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Je connais mes fureurs, je les rappelle toutes.",p:84,x:89,y:1150,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Il me semble déjà que ces murs, que ces voûtes",p:84,x:89,y:1182,w:528,h:26},
{t:"Vont prendre la parole, et prêts à m'accuser,",p:84,x:89,y:1214,w:489,h:26},
{t:"Attendent mon époux pour le désabuser.",p:84,x:89,y:1245,w:445,h:26},
{t:"82",p:85,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:85,x:94,y:84,w:104,h:26},
{t:"My husband’s living. That’s enough. I stare",p:85,x:94,y:135,w:469,h:26},
{t:"on some outrageous love that I’ve confessed.",p:85,x:94,y:167,w:496,h:26},
{t:"He lives. Oenone, spare me all the rest.",p:85,x:94,y:199,w:433,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:85,x:94,y:250,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What rest?",p:85,x:94,y:302,w:117,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:85,x:94,y:354,w:104,h:26},
{t:"You did not listen to my fears,",p:85,x:94,y:405,w:329,h:26},
{t:"and I too stupidly was won by tears.",p:85,x:94,y:437,w:397,h:26},
{t:"Unashamed, I was this morning reconciled",p:85,x:94,y:469,w:463,h:26},
{t:"to death but now I leave my name defiled.",p:85,x:94,y:500,w:464,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:85,x:94,y:552,w:93,h:26},
{t:"You wish to die?",p:85,x:94,y:604,w:176,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:85,x:94,y:655,w:104,h:26},
{t:"Think now what I have done.",p:85,x:94,y:707,w:317,h:26},
{t:"840. My husband’s coming, and he brings his son",p:85,x:94,y:739,w:539,h:26},
{t:"to watch the welcoming that she afford,",p:85,x:94,y:770,w:434,h:26},
{t:"still gorged with shameful love, her rightful lord.",p:85,x:94,y:802,w:527,h:26},
{t:"The heart he would not hear still full of sighs",p:85,x:94,y:834,w:486,h:26},
{t:"with tears betraying her that fill the eyes.",p:85,x:94,y:865,w:453,h:26},
{t:"You think for Theseus’s honour he’ll conspire",p:85,x:94,y:897,w:487,h:26},
{t:"to hide the ugliness of my desire,",p:85,x:94,y:929,w:364,h:26},
{t:"betray a king by blood and fealty,",p:85,x:94,y:960,w:368,h:26},
{t:"restrain the loathing that he feels for me?",p:85,x:94,y:992,w:455,h:26},
{t:"How vain would silence be in any case,",p:85,x:94,y:1024,w:424,h:26},
{t:"850. I wear my guilty passions on my face",p:85,x:94,y:1055,w:463,h:26},
{t:"and not as shameless wretches who for pleasure",p:85,x:94,y:1087,w:528,h:26},
{t:"will savour mischief placidly at leisure.",p:85,x:94,y:1119,w:418,h:26},
{t:"I know my furies, and can feel them all,",p:85,x:94,y:1150,w:435,h:26},
{t:"indeed from every balustrade and wall",p:85,x:94,y:1182,w:419,h:26},
{t:"I hear those villanies: they shout and rail",p:85,x:94,y:1214,w:449,h:26},
{t:"and leave my husband to complete the tale.",p:85,x:94,y:1245,w:480,h:26},
{t:"83",p:86,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Mourons. De tant d'horreurs qu'un trépas me délivre.",p:86,x:89,y:84,w:581,h:26},
{t:"Est-ce un malheur si grand que de cesser de vivre ?",p:86,x:89,y:115,w:566,h:26},
{t:"La mort aux malheureux ne cause point d'effroi.",p:86,x:89,y:147,w:524,h:26},
{t:"860. Je ne crains que le nom que je laisse après moi.",p:86,x:89,y:179,w:580,h:26},
{t:"Pour mes tristes enfants quel affreux héritage !",p:86,x:89,y:210,w:516,h:26},
{t:"Le sang de Jupiter doit enfler leur courage ;",p:86,x:89,y:242,w:478,h:26},
{t:"Mais quelque juste orgueil qu'inspire un sang si beau,",p:86,x:89,y:274,w:585,h:26},
{t:"Le crime d'une mère est un pesant fardeau.",p:86,x:89,y:305,w:477,h:26},
{t:"Je tremble qu'un discours, hélas ! trop véritable,",p:86,x:89,y:337,w:528,h:26},
{t:"Un jour ne leur reproche une mère coupable.",p:86,x:89,y:369,w:490,h:26},
{t:"Je tremble qu'opprimés de ce poids odieux",p:86,x:89,y:400,w:466,h:26},
{t:"L'un ni l'autre jamais n'ose lever les yeux.",p:86,x:89,y:432,w:458,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:86,x:89,y:484,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Il n'en faut point douter, je les plains l'un et l'autre ;",p:86,x:89,y:535,w:573,h:26},
{t:"870. Jamais crainte ne fut plus juste que la vôtre.",p:86,x:89,y:567,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Mais à de tels affronts pourquoi les exposer ?",p:86,x:89,y:599,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Pourquoi contre vous-même allez-vous déposer ?",p:86,x:89,y:630,w:538,h:26},
{t:"C'en est fait : on dira que Phèdre, trop coupable,",p:86,x:89,y:662,w:533,h:26},
{t:"De son époux trahi fuit l'aspect redoutable.",p:86,x:89,y:694,w:471,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte est heureux qu'aux dépens de vos jours",p:86,x:89,y:725,w:545,h:26},
{t:"Vous-même en expirant appuyez ses discours.",p:86,x:89,y:757,w:507,h:26},
{t:"A votre accusateur que pourrai-je répondre ?",p:86,x:89,y:789,w:491,h:26},
{t:"Je serai devant lui trop facile à confondre.",p:86,x:89,y:820,w:457,h:26},
{t:"De son triomphe affreux je le verrai jouir,",p:86,x:89,y:852,w:454,h:26},
{t:"880. Et conter votre honte à qui voudra l'ouïr.",p:86,x:89,y:884,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! que plutôt du ciel la flamme me dévore !",p:86,x:89,y:915,w:496,h:26},
{t:"Mais ne me trompez point, vous est-il cher encore ?",p:86,x:89,y:947,w:566,h:26},
{t:"De quel oeil voyez-vous ce prince audacieux ?",p:86,x:89,y:979,w:502,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:86,x:89,y:1030,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Je le vois comme un monstre effroyable à mes yeux.",p:86,x:89,y:1082,w:576,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:86,x:89,y:1134,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Pourquoi donc lui céder une victoire entière ?",p:86,x:89,y:1185,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Vous le craignez. Osez l'accuser la première",p:86,x:89,y:1217,w:478,h:26},
{t:"84",p:87,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Let’s die, take flight from horror through demise:",p:87,x:94,y:84,w:537,h:26},
{t:"a small thing, isn’t it? to shut the eyes.",p:87,x:94,y:115,w:426,h:26},
{t:"The miserable must welcome it, though find",p:87,x:94,y:147,w:479,h:26},
{t:"860. that fears attack the name they leave behind.",p:87,x:94,y:179,w:554,h:26},
{t:"A foul inheritance each son disdains",p:87,x:94,y:210,w:389,h:26},
{t:"for though the blood of Jupiter should swell his veins",p:87,x:94,y:242,w:575,h:26},
{t:"and keep him thinking of his beauty’s race",p:87,x:94,y:274,w:462,h:26},
{t:"a mother’s crime is terrible, and that disgrace",p:87,x:94,y:305,w:499,h:26},
{t:"must follow him, and truly, when one day",p:87,x:94,y:337,w:454,h:26},
{t:"he hears the truth some casual tongue will say,",p:87,x:94,y:369,w:516,h:26},
{t:"he’ll feel the weight of it and be oppressed",p:87,x:94,y:400,w:463,h:26},
{t:"instead of lifting high the sovereign head.",p:87,x:94,y:432,w:453,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:87,x:94,y:484,w:93,h:26},
{t:"They both deserve our pity, that is true,",p:87,x:94,y:535,w:437,h:26},
{t:"870. but still more true are fears expressed by you.",p:87,x:94,y:567,w:563,h:26},
{t:"But why expose them to a disrespect,",p:87,x:94,y:599,w:411,h:26},
{t:"or be yourself so less than circumspect?",p:87,x:94,y:630,w:436,h:26},
{t:"Suppose you die. They’ll note that Phaedra fled",p:87,x:94,y:662,w:515,h:26},
{t:"both scene and husband, that she now is dead.",p:87,x:94,y:694,w:514,h:26},
{t:"And then Hippolytus will gloat to see",p:87,x:94,y:725,w:399,h:26},
{t:"how much you death supports his calumny.",p:87,x:94,y:757,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Against such accusations where am I?",p:87,x:94,y:789,w:414,h:26},
{t:"What counter confirmations make reply?",p:87,x:94,y:820,w:441,h:26},
{t:"A triumph all too terrible to meet",p:87,x:94,y:852,w:360,h:26},
{t:"880. when he will make your overthrow complete:",p:87,x:94,y:884,w:548,h:26},
{t:"May fire of Heaven devour me, more so since",p:87,x:94,y:915,w:495,h:26},
{t:"you’re still enchanted—tell me—by your prince,",p:87,x:94,y:947,w:515,h:26},
{t:"and will see nothing but audacity.",p:87,x:94,y:979,w:367,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:87,x:94,y:1030,w:104,h:26},
{t:"It is a frightful monster that I see.",p:87,x:94,y:1082,w:373,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:87,x:94,y:1134,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Unless by his successes you’d be cursed,",p:87,x:94,y:1185,w:445,h:26},
{t:"then dash his hopes and dare to charge him first",p:87,x:94,y:1217,w:529,h:26},
{t:"85",p:88,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Du crime dont il peut vous charger aujourd'hui.",p:88,x:89,y:84,w:516,h:26},
{t:"Qui vous démentira ? Tout parle contre lui :",p:88,x:89,y:115,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Son épée en vos mains heureusement laissée,",p:88,x:89,y:147,w:505,h:26},
{t:"890. Votre trouble présent, votre douleur passée,",p:88,x:89,y:179,w:540,h:26},
{t:"Son père par vos cris dès longtemps prévenu,",p:88,x:89,y:210,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Et déjà son exil par vous-même obtenu.",p:88,x:89,y:242,w:437,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:88,x:89,y:294,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Moi, que j'ose opprimer et noircir l'innocence !",p:88,x:89,y:345,w:506,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:88,x:89,y:397,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Mon zèle n'a besoin que de votre silence.",p:88,x:89,y:449,w:448,h:26},
{t:"Tremblante comme vous, j'en sens quelque remords.",p:88,x:89,y:480,w:580,h:26},
{t:"Vous me verriez plus prompte affronter mille morts.",p:88,x:89,y:512,w:567,h:26},
{t:"Mais puisque je vous perds sans ce triste remède,",p:88,x:89,y:544,w:545,h:26},
{t:"Votre vie est pour moi d'un prix à qui tout cède.",p:88,x:89,y:575,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Je parlerai. Thésée, aigri par mes avis,",p:88,x:89,y:607,w:422,h:26},
{t:"900. Bornera sa vengeance à l'exil de son fils.",p:88,x:89,y:639,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Un père en punissant, Madame, est toujours père.",p:88,x:89,y:670,w:547,h:26},
{t:"Un supplice léger suffit à sa colère.",p:88,x:89,y:702,w:381,h:26},
{t:"Mais le sang innocent dût-il être versé,",p:88,x:89,y:734,w:424,h:26},
{t:"Que ne demande point votre honneur menacé ?",p:88,x:89,y:765,w:521,h:26},
{t:"C'est un trésor trop cher pour oser le commettre.",p:88,x:89,y:797,w:537,h:26},
{t:"Quelque loi qu'il vous dicte, il faut vous y soumettre,",p:88,x:89,y:829,w:576,h:26},
{t:"Madame, et pour sauver votre honneur combattu,",p:88,x:89,y:860,w:545,h:26},
{t:"Il faut imoler tout, et même la vertu.",p:88,x:89,y:892,w:403,h:26},
{t:"On vient, je vois Thésée.",p:88,x:89,y:924,w:271,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:88,x:89,y:975,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! je vois Hippolyte,",p:88,x:89,y:1027,w:241,h:26},
{t:"910. Dans ses yeux insolents, je vois ma perte écrite.",p:88,x:89,y:1059,w:586,h:26},
{t:"Fais ce que tu voudras, je m'abandonne à toi.",p:88,x:89,y:1090,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Dans le trouble où je suis, je ne peux rien pour moi",p:88,x:89,y:1122,w:561,h:26},
{t:"86",p:89,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"with what he might accuse you of today.",p:89,x:94,y:84,w:442,h:26},
{t:"You’ll be believed. The facts point all that way.",p:89,x:94,y:115,w:509,h:26},
{t:"His sword most fortunately is in your hand,",p:89,x:94,y:147,w:471,h:26},
{t:"890. your pain and sicknesses they’ll understand",p:89,x:94,y:179,w:531,h:26},
{t:"as will his father whom your cries have pained",p:89,x:94,y:210,w:505,h:26},
{t:"and now already exile have obtained.",p:89,x:94,y:242,w:407,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:89,x:94,y:294,w:104,h:26},
{t:"Me, oppress and blacken innocence?",p:89,x:94,y:345,w:397,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:89,x:94,y:397,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Not you. Stay quiet. I’ll take the matter hence",p:89,x:94,y:449,w:502,h:26},
{t:"although I quake as you and feel remorse.",p:89,x:94,y:480,w:463,h:26},
{t:"I’d face a thousand deaths to take this course.",p:89,x:94,y:512,w:506,h:26},
{t:"Life’s lost unless I take a remedy",p:89,x:94,y:544,w:360,h:26},
{t:"for you above all others dear to me.",p:89,x:94,y:575,w:393,h:26},
{t:"I’ll speak to Theseus and will engage",p:89,x:94,y:607,w:400,h:26},
{t:"900. for all his lordliness and famous rage",p:89,x:94,y:639,w:458,h:26},
{t:"it will be nought but exile for his son.",p:89,x:94,y:670,w:405,h:26},
{t:"That’s how the loves of fathers always run,",p:89,x:94,y:702,w:469,h:26},
{t:"but if some guiltless lifeblood must be shed",p:89,x:94,y:734,w:473,h:26},
{t:"how high the stainless honour in its stead.",p:89,x:94,y:765,w:461,h:26},
{t:"And think the wealth of treasure you commit",p:89,x:94,y:797,w:487,h:26},
{t:"in such an enterprise and so submit,",p:89,x:94,y:829,w:397,h:26},
{t:"for such is reputation, all in view",p:89,x:94,y:860,w:355,h:26},
{t:"of that are secondary, and virtue too.",p:89,x:94,y:892,w:408,h:26},
{t:"Here’s Theseus.",p:89,x:94,y:924,w:172,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:89,x:94,y:975,w:104,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus as well,",p:89,x:94,y:1027,w:204,h:26},
{t:"910. within whose eyes is written my farewell.",p:89,x:94,y:1059,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Do as you wish. I’m given up to you,",p:89,x:94,y:1090,w:402,h:26},
{t:"for in this state there’s nothing I can do.",p:89,x:94,y:1122,w:440,h:26},
{t:"87",p:90,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Scène 4",p:90,x:89,y:94,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Thésée, Hippolyte, Phèdre, Oenone, Théramène",p:90,x:89,y:147,w:522,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:90,x:89,y:230,w:85,h:26},
{t:"La fortune à mes voeux cesse d'être opposée,",p:90,x:89,y:282,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Madame, et dans vos bras met...",p:90,x:89,y:314,w:360,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:90,x:89,y:365,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Arrêtez, Thésée,",p:90,x:89,y:417,w:179,h:26},
{t:"Et ne profanez point des transports si charmants.",p:90,x:89,y:449,w:539,h:26},
{t:"Je ne mérite plus ces doux empressements.",p:90,x:89,y:480,w:478,h:26},
{t:"Vous êtes offensé. La fortune jalouse",p:90,x:89,y:512,w:403,h:26},
{t:"N'a pas en votre absence épargné votre épouse.",p:90,x:89,y:544,w:526,h:26},
{t:"Indigne de vous plaire et de vous approcher,",p:90,x:89,y:575,w:488,h:26},
{t:"920. Je ne dois désormais songer qu'à me cacher.",p:90,x:89,y:607,w:546,h:26},
{t:"Scène 5",p:90,x:89,y:693,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Thésée, Hippolyte, Théramène",p:90,x:89,y:745,w:332,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:90,x:89,y:829,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Quel est l'étrange accueil qu'on fait à votre père,",p:90,x:89,y:880,w:532,h:26},
{t:"Mon fils ?",p:90,x:89,y:912,w:102,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:90,x:89,y:964,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre peut seule expliquer ce mystère.",p:90,x:89,y:1015,w:439,h:26},
{t:"Mais si mes voeux ardents vous peuvent émouvoir,",p:90,x:89,y:1047,w:558,h:26},
{t:"Permettez-moi, Seigneur, de ne la plus revoir ;",p:90,x:89,y:1079,w:514,h:26},
{t:"Souffrez que pour jamais le tremblant Hippolyte",p:90,x:89,y:1110,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Disparaisse des lieux que votre épouse habite.",p:90,x:89,y:1142,w:507,h:26},
{t:"88",p:91,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Scene 4",p:91,x:94,y:94,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Theseus, Hippolytus, Phaedra, Oenone, Theramenes",p:91,x:94,y:147,w:570,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:91,x:94,y:230,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Harsh fortunes, long against me, drop",p:91,x:94,y:282,w:414,h:26},
{t:"their force as in your arms. . .",p:91,x:94,y:314,w:327,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:91,x:94,y:365,w:104,h:26},
{t:"No, Theseus, stop.",p:91,x:94,y:417,w:203,h:26},
{t:"Your words profane me, do not stoop to bless",p:91,x:94,y:449,w:497,h:26},
{t:"one undeserving of your gentleness.",p:91,x:94,y:480,w:396,h:26},
{t:"You have been wronged. The fortune of your house",p:91,x:94,y:512,w:559,h:26},
{t:"has not been kindly to your absent spouse.",p:91,x:94,y:544,w:470,h:26},
{t:"Unworthy now to please you and approach",p:91,x:94,y:575,w:465,h:26},
{t:"920. she takes her leave in silence and reproach.",p:91,x:94,y:607,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Scene 5",p:91,x:94,y:693,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Theseus, Hippolytus, Theramenes",p:91,x:94,y:745,w:368,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:91,x:94,y:829,w:102,h:26},
{t:"What are these curious greetings that we see",p:91,x:94,y:880,w:492,h:26},
{t:"my son?",p:91,x:94,y:912,w:91,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:91,x:94,y:964,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra may solve the mystery,",p:91,x:94,y:1015,w:352,h:26},
{t:"but if my ardent words can move your will,",p:91,x:94,y:1047,w:468,h:26},
{t:"your son asks not to look on Phaedra still,",p:91,x:94,y:1079,w:457,h:26},
{t:"but from these shores, my lord, a fugitive,",p:91,x:94,y:1110,w:463,h:26},
{t:"stay far from any place where she may live.",p:91,x:94,y:1142,w:478,h:26},
{t:"89",p:92,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"THESEE",p:92,x:89,y:84,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Vous, mon fils, me quitter ?",p:92,x:89,y:135,w:303,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:92,x:89,y:187,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Je ne la cherchais pas.",p:92,x:89,y:239,w:246,h:26},
{t:"C'est vous qui sur ces bords conduisites ses pas.",p:92,x:89,y:270,w:530,h:26},
{t:"Vous daignâtes, Seigneur, aux rives de Trézène",p:92,x:89,y:302,w:519,h:26},
{t:"930. Confier en partant Aricie et la Reine :",p:92,x:89,y:334,w:462,h:26},
{t:"Je fus même chargé du soin de les garder.",p:92,x:89,y:365,w:464,h:26},
{t:"Mais quels soins désormais peuvent me retarder ?",p:92,x:89,y:397,w:547,h:26},
{t:"Assez dans les forêts mon oisive jeunesse",p:92,x:89,y:429,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Sur de vils ennemis a montré son adresse.",p:92,x:89,y:460,w:465,h:26},
{t:"Ne pourrai-je, en fuyant un indigne repos,",p:92,x:89,y:492,w:459,h:26},
{t:"D'un sang plus glorieux teindre mes javelots ?",p:92,x:89,y:524,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Vous n'aviez pas encore atteint l'âge où je touche,",p:92,x:89,y:555,w:549,h:26},
{t:"Déjà plus d'un tyran, plus d'un monstre farouche",p:92,x:89,y:587,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Avait de votre bras senti la pesanteur ;",p:92,x:89,y:619,w:426,h:26},
{t:"940. Déjà, de l'insolent heureux persécuteur,",p:92,x:89,y:650,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Vous aviez des deux mers assuré les rivages,",p:92,x:89,y:682,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Le libre voyageur ne craignait plus d'outrages,",p:92,x:89,y:714,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Hercule, respirant sur le bruit de vos coups,",p:92,x:89,y:745,w:477,h:26},
{t:"Déjà de son travail se reposait sur vous.",p:92,x:89,y:777,w:440,h:26},
{t:"Et moi, fils inconnu d'un si glorieux père,",p:92,x:89,y:809,w:446,h:26},
{t:"Je suis même encor loin des traces de ma mère.",p:92,x:89,y:840,w:528,h:26},
{t:"Souffrez que mon courage ose enfin s'occuper.",p:92,x:89,y:872,w:510,h:26},
{t:"Souffrez, si quelque monstre a pu vous échapper,",p:92,x:89,y:904,w:542,h:26},
{t:"Que j'apporte à vos pieds sa dépouille honorable ;",p:92,x:89,y:935,w:548,h:26},
{t:"950. Ou que d'un beau trépas la mémoire durable,",p:92,x:89,y:967,w:552,h:26},
{t:"Eternisant des jours si noblement finis,",p:92,x:89,y:999,w:424,h:26},
{t:"Prouve à tout l'univers que j'étais votre fils.",p:92,x:89,y:1030,w:475,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:92,x:89,y:1082,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Que vois-je ? Quelle horreur dans ces lieux répandue",p:92,x:89,y:1134,w:579,h:26},
{t:"Fait fuir devant mes yeux ma famille éperdue ?",p:92,x:89,y:1165,w:514,h:26},
{t:"Si je reviens si craint et si peu désiré,",p:92,x:89,y:1197,w:410,h:26},
{t:"O ciel ! de ma prison pourquoi m'as-tu tiré ?",p:92,x:89,y:1229,w:484,h:26},
{t:"90",p:93,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"THESEUS",p:93,x:94,y:84,w:102,h:26},
{t:"You’d go as well, my son?",p:93,x:94,y:135,w:282,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:93,x:94,y:187,w:138,h:26},
{t:"But with some cause:",p:93,x:94,y:239,w:235,h:26},
{t:"not I, my lord, who brought her to these shores.",p:93,x:94,y:270,w:530,h:26},
{t:"But here you left Aricia and the queen",p:93,x:94,y:302,w:414,h:26},
{t:"930. when you left Troezen: they have been",p:93,x:94,y:334,w:484,h:26},
{t:"in truth my earnest care, but now it’s clear",p:93,x:94,y:365,w:466,h:26},
{t:"no heavy duties stay to keep me here.",p:93,x:94,y:397,w:420,h:26},
{t:"Enough in forests hereabouts my claim",p:93,x:94,y:429,w:424,h:26},
{t:"of courage is pursuing paltry game.",p:93,x:94,y:460,w:387,h:26},
{t:"May I not leave an idle life and show",p:93,x:94,y:492,w:399,h:26},
{t:"a javelin blooded by a worthier foe?",p:93,x:94,y:524,w:390,h:26},
{t:"Before my present age you had begun",p:93,x:94,y:555,w:417,h:26},
{t:"that scourge of monsters, and more than one",p:93,x:94,y:587,w:495,h:26},
{t:"had felt the power of your own strong arm,",p:93,x:94,y:619,w:471,h:26},
{t:"940. how many evildoers had been brought to harm",p:93,x:94,y:650,w:568,h:26},
{t:"that travellers along the coast from sea to sea",p:93,x:94,y:682,w:503,h:26},
{t:"were from the threat of piracy made free.",p:93,x:94,y:714,w:454,h:26},
{t:"So that at your exploits great Hercules",p:93,x:94,y:745,w:421,h:26},
{t:"gave up his tasks at length and took his ease.",p:93,x:94,y:777,w:501,h:26},
{t:"But I the offspring of so great a name",p:93,x:94,y:809,w:412,h:26},
{t:"but follow even in my mother’s fame.",p:93,x:94,y:840,w:408,h:26},
{t:"I pray my courage has the chance to find",p:93,x:94,y:872,w:448,h:26},
{t:"some loathsome monster you have left behind",p:93,x:94,y:904,w:506,h:26},
{t:"that I may bring such spoils for you to see.",p:93,x:94,y:935,w:470,h:26},
{t:"950. or if I fail at least the memory",p:93,x:94,y:967,w:384,h:26},
{t:"will prove to all the world that such a one",p:93,x:94,y:999,w:451,h:26},
{t:"was honourably regarded as your son.",p:93,x:94,y:1030,w:417,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:93,x:94,y:1082,w:102,h:26},
{t:"What’s this? What horror can afflict this place",p:93,x:94,y:1134,w:494,h:26},
{t:"that family must flee before my face?",p:93,x:94,y:1165,w:408,h:26},
{t:"If I return to such a tepid show",p:93,x:94,y:1197,w:340,h:26},
{t:"of welcome why did gods then let me go?",p:93,x:94,y:1229,w:453,h:26},
{t:"91",p:94,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Je n'avais qu'un ami. Son impudente flamme",p:94,x:89,y:84,w:490,h:26},
{t:"Du tyran de l'Epire allait ravir la femme ;",p:94,x:89,y:115,w:447,h:26},
{t:"Je servais à regret ses desseins amoureux ;",p:94,x:89,y:147,w:477,h:26},
{t:"960. Mais le sort irrité nous aveuglait tous deux.",p:94,x:89,y:179,w:528,h:26},
{t:"Le tyran m'a surpris sans défense et sans armes.",p:94,x:89,y:210,w:534,h:26},
{t:"J'ai vu Pirithoüs, triste objet de mes larmes,",p:94,x:89,y:242,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Livré par ce barbare à des monstres cruels",p:94,x:89,y:274,w:465,h:26},
{t:"Qu'il nourrissait du sang des malheureux mortels.",p:94,x:89,y:305,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Moi-même, il m'enferma dans des cavernes sombres,",p:94,x:89,y:337,w:583,h:26},
{t:"Lieux profonds, et voisins de l'empire des ombres.",p:94,x:89,y:369,w:549,h:26},
{t:"Les Dieux, après six mois, enfin m'ont regardé :",p:94,x:89,y:400,w:525,h:26},
{t:"J'ai su tromper les yeux de qui j'étais gardé.",p:94,x:89,y:432,w:484,h:26},
{t:"D'un perfide ennemi j'ai purgé la nature ;",p:94,x:89,y:464,w:453,h:26},
{t:"970. A ses monstres lui-même a servi de pâture ;",p:94,x:89,y:495,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Et losrque avec transport je pense m'approcher",p:94,x:89,y:527,w:517,h:26},
{t:"De tout ce que les Dieux m'ont laissé de plus cher ;",p:94,x:89,y:559,w:562,h:26},
{t:"Que dis-je ? Quand mon âme, à moi-même rendue,",p:94,x:89,y:590,w:565,h:26},
{t:"Vient se rassasier d'une si chère vue,",p:94,x:89,y:622,w:405,h:26},
{t:"Je n'ai pour tout accueil que des frémissements :",p:94,x:89,y:654,w:535,h:26},
{t:"Tout fuit, tout se refuse à mes embrassements.",p:94,x:89,y:685,w:518,h:26},
{t:"Et moi-même, éprouvant la terreur que j'inspire,",p:94,x:89,y:717,w:531,h:26},
{t:"Je voudrais être encor dans les prisons d'Epire.",p:94,x:89,y:749,w:513,h:26},
{t:"Parlez. Phèdre se plaint que je suis outragé.",p:94,x:89,y:780,w:480,h:26},
{t:"980. Qui m'a trahi ? Pourquoi ne suis-je pas vengé ?",p:94,x:89,y:812,w:572,h:26},
{t:"La Grèce, à qui mon bras fut tant de fois utile,",p:94,x:89,y:844,w:504,h:26},
{t:"A-t-elle au criminel accordé quelque asile ?",p:94,x:89,y:875,w:469,h:26},
{t:"Vous ne répondez point. Mon fils, mon propre fils",p:94,x:89,y:907,w:537,h:26},
{t:"Est-il d'intelligence avec mes ennemis ?",p:94,x:89,y:939,w:433,h:26},
{t:"Entrons. C'est trop garder un doute qui m'accable.",p:94,x:89,y:970,w:550,h:26},
{t:"Connaissons à la fois le crime et le coupable.",p:94,x:89,y:1002,w:489,h:26},
{t:"Que Phèdre explique enfin le trouble où je la voi.",p:94,x:89,y:1034,w:533,h:26},
{t:"Scène 5",p:94,x:89,y:1119,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Hippolyte, Théramène",p:94,x:89,y:1172,w:240,h:26},
{t:"92",p:95,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"I had one friend, who in Epirus tried",p:95,x:94,y:84,w:394,h:26},
{t:"to win the woman at that tyrant’s side.",p:95,x:94,y:115,w:423,h:26},
{t:"To my regret I served that enterprise",p:95,x:94,y:147,w:406,h:26},
{t:"960. but fate to danger blinded both our eyes.",p:95,x:94,y:179,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Weaponless, the tyrant found us, and my friend,",p:95,x:94,y:210,w:528,h:26},
{t:"the said Pirithoüs, met a fearful end:",p:95,x:94,y:242,w:401,h:26},
{t:"with tears I watched this gross barbarian",p:95,x:94,y:274,w:446,h:26},
{t:"throw him to beasts that feed on hapless men.",p:95,x:94,y:305,w:508,h:26},
{t:"Myself was in the deepest caverns hurled,",p:95,x:94,y:337,w:457,h:26},
{t:"in depths that border on the underworld.",p:95,x:94,y:369,w:444,h:26},
{t:"Six months before the gods would look my way",p:95,x:94,y:400,w:517,h:26},
{t:"and I outwit the eyes that made me stay.",p:95,x:94,y:432,w:452,h:26},
{t:"I purged the world of him, and to his beasts",p:95,x:94,y:464,w:480,h:26},
{t:"970. gave him as fodder for their cruel feasts.",p:95,x:94,y:495,w:502,h:26},
{t:"And now I come with joy to see how fared",p:95,x:94,y:527,w:460,h:26},
{t:"at last my loved ones that the gods have spared,",p:95,x:94,y:559,w:534,h:26},
{t:"what does it find, this soul of mine returned",p:95,x:94,y:590,w:478,h:26},
{t:"to feast on what its eyes have always yearned",p:95,x:94,y:622,w:502,h:26},
{t:"for? Faces that seem to shudder with alarms",p:95,x:94,y:654,w:484,h:26},
{t:"with everyone to shun my waiting arms:",p:95,x:94,y:685,w:441,h:26},
{t:"Of me so filled with horror and afraid,",p:95,x:94,y:717,w:411,h:26},
{t:"far better in Epirus I had stayed.",p:95,x:94,y:749,w:356,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra tells me I have suffered wrong,",p:95,x:94,y:780,w:436,h:26},
{t:"980. but who betrayed me? How and why so long",p:95,x:94,y:812,w:540,h:26},
{t:"I’m unavenged when in the Greece I know",p:95,x:94,y:844,w:463,h:26},
{t:"there’s none who’d hide from me so vile a foe.",p:95,x:94,y:875,w:507,h:26},
{t:"Is this a son, his own, the father sees",p:95,x:94,y:907,w:410,h:26},
{t:"so much complicit with his enemies?",p:95,x:94,y:939,w:397,h:26},
{t:"Let’s now go in, and end this grim suspense,",p:95,x:94,y:970,w:487,h:26},
{t:"we’ll find the criminal and gross events",p:95,x:94,y:1002,w:426,h:26},
{t:"that cause the queen to meet us so distraught.",p:95,x:94,y:1034,w:511,h:26},
{t:"Scene 5",p:95,x:94,y:1119,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Hippolytus, Theramenes",p:95,x:94,y:1172,w:263,h:26},
{t:"93",p:96,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:96,x:89,y:84,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Où tendait ce discours qui m'a glacé d'effroi ?",p:96,x:89,y:135,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre, toujours en proie à sa fureur extrême,",p:96,x:89,y:167,w:509,h:26},
{t:"Veut-elle s'accuser et se perdre elle-même !",p:96,x:89,y:199,w:482,h:26},
{t:"Dieux ! que dira le Roi ! Quel funeste poison",p:96,x:89,y:230,w:482,h:26},
{t:"L'amour a répandu sur toute sa maison !",p:96,x:89,y:262,w:445,h:26},
{t:"Moi-même, plein d'un feu que sa haine réprouve,",p:96,x:89,y:294,w:537,h:26},
{t:"Quel il m'a vu jadis, et quel il me retrouve !",p:96,x:89,y:325,w:477,h:26},
{t:"De noirs pressentiments viennent m'épouvanter.",p:96,x:89,y:357,w:531,h:26},
{t:"Mais l'innocence enfin n'a rien à redouter.",p:96,x:89,y:389,w:455,h:26},
{t:"Allons, cherchons ailleurs par quelle heureuse adresse",p:96,x:89,y:420,w:590,h:26},
{t:"Je pourrai de mon père émouvoir la tendresse,",p:96,x:89,y:452,w:511,h:26},
{t:"Et lui dire un amour qu'il peut vouloir troubler,",p:96,x:89,y:484,w:508,h:26},
{t:"Mais que tout son pouvoir ne saurait ébranler.",p:96,x:89,y:515,w:503,h:26},
{t:"94",p:97,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:97,x:94,y:84,w:138,h:26},
{t:"How chilling are his words, they seize my thought.",p:97,x:94,y:135,w:550,h:26},
{t:"Will Phaedra, still to her wild fury prey,",p:97,x:94,y:167,w:425,h:26},
{t:"990. bring ruin on herself, reveal and stray",p:97,x:94,y:199,w:469,h:26},
{t:"beyond propriety? What says the king?",p:97,x:94,y:230,w:424,h:26},
{t:"Such terrors on a house that love can bring.",p:97,x:94,y:262,w:482,h:26},
{t:"My own that blazes out to meet his hate,",p:97,x:94,y:294,w:446,h:26},
{t:"was once so happy, and must keep that state.",p:97,x:94,y:325,w:503,h:26},
{t:"For all that dark forebodings press more near",p:97,x:94,y:357,w:495,h:26},
{t:"the heart that’s innocent need never fear:",p:97,x:94,y:389,w:456,h:26},
{t:"perhaps some happy speech can still be found",p:97,x:94,y:420,w:503,h:26},
{t:"to make my case to him and bring him round",p:97,x:94,y:452,w:493,h:26},
{t:"to love that seems to him a gross mistake",p:97,x:94,y:484,w:458,h:26},
{t:"1000. but one he’ll never have the power to shake.",p:97,x:94,y:515,w:558,h:26},
{t:"95",p:98,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ACTE QUATRIEME",p:98,x:89,y:121,w:259,h:37},
{t:"Scène 1",p:98,x:89,y:214,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Thésée, Oenone",p:98,x:89,y:267,w:175,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:98,x:89,y:330,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! qu'est-ce que j'entends ? Un traître, un téméraire",p:98,x:89,y:382,w:593,h:26},
{t:"Préparait cet outrage à l'honneur de son père ?",p:98,x:89,y:414,w:513,h:26},
{t:"Avec quelle rigueur, Destin, tu me poursuis !",p:98,x:89,y:445,w:488,h:26},
{t:"Je ne sais où je vais, je ne sais où je suis.",p:98,x:89,y:477,w:457,h:26},
{t:"O tendresse ! ô bonté trop mal récompensée !",p:98,x:89,y:509,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Projet audacieux ! détestable pensée !",p:98,x:89,y:540,w:418,h:26},
{t:"Pour parvenir au but de ses noires amours,",p:98,x:89,y:572,w:471,h:26},
{t:"L'insolent de la force empruntait le secours.",p:98,x:89,y:604,w:477,h:26},
{t:"J'ai reconnu le fer, instrument de sa rage,",p:98,x:89,y:635,w:456,h:26},
{t:"1010. Ce fer dont je l'armai pour un plus noble usage.",p:98,x:89,y:667,w:591,h:26},
{t:"Tous les liens du sang n'ont pu le retenir !",p:98,x:89,y:699,w:459,h:26},
{t:"Et Phèdre différait à le faire punir !",p:98,x:89,y:730,w:379,h:26},
{t:"Le silence de Phèdre épargnait le coupable !",p:98,x:89,y:762,w:480,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:98,x:89,y:814,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre épargnait plutôt un père déplorable.",p:98,x:89,y:865,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Honteuse du dessein d'un amant furieux",p:98,x:89,y:897,w:440,h:26},
{t:"Et du feu criminel qu'il a pris dans ses yeux,",p:98,x:89,y:929,w:482,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre mourait, Seigneur, et sa main meurtière",p:98,x:89,y:960,w:523,h:26},
{t:"Eteignait de ses yeux l'innocente lumière.",p:98,x:89,y:992,w:453,h:26},
{t:"J'ai vu lever le bras, j'ai couru la sauver.",p:98,x:89,y:1024,w:442,h:26},
{t:"120. Moi seule à votre amour j'ai su la conserver ;",p:98,x:89,y:1055,w:550,h:26},
{t:"Et, plaignant à la fois son trouble et vos alarmes,",p:98,x:89,y:1087,w:535,h:26},
{t:"J'ai servi malgré moi d'interprète à ses larmes.",p:98,x:89,y:1119,w:512,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:98,x:89,y:1170,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Le perfide ! Il n'a pu s'empêcher de pâlir.",p:98,x:89,y:1222,w:450,h:26},
{t:"De crainte, en m'abordant, je l'ai vu tressaillir.",p:98,x:89,y:1254,w:508,h:26},
{t:"96",p:99,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"ACT FOUR",p:99,x:94,y:121,w:151,h:37},
{t:"Scene 1",p:99,x:94,y:214,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Theseus, Oenone",p:99,x:94,y:267,w:187,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:99,x:94,y:330,w:102,h:26},
{t:"What’s that I hear? The traitorous one would claim",p:99,x:94,y:382,w:551,h:26},
{t:"to bring this outrage on his father’s name?",p:99,x:94,y:414,w:465,h:26},
{t:"How harsh the pressing destinies are his",p:99,x:94,y:445,w:441,h:26},
{t:"that knows not where he goes, nor what he is.",p:99,x:94,y:477,w:506,h:26},
{t:"My tenderness, how ill has been repaid",p:99,x:94,y:509,w:424,h:26},
{t:"in vile an enterprise and vilely made.",p:99,x:94,y:540,w:403,h:26},
{t:"He even had the insolence to force",p:99,x:94,y:572,w:378,h:26},
{t:"his outrage on her by the roughest course.",p:99,x:94,y:604,w:466,h:26},
{t:"He drew on her, was threatening to loose",p:99,x:94,y:635,w:450,h:26},
{t:"1010. the sword I gave him for a nobler use:",p:99,x:94,y:667,w:491,h:26},
{t:"You’d think the ties of bloodline would restrain,",p:99,x:94,y:699,w:514,h:26},
{t:"but Phaedra’s slow to anger or complain,",p:99,x:94,y:730,w:445,h:26},
{t:"and now her reticence protects his name.",p:99,x:94,y:762,w:451,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:99,x:94,y:814,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra knows too well a father’s shame",p:99,x:94,y:865,w:445,h:26},
{t:"and feels more guilty that her looks inspire",p:99,x:94,y:897,w:468,h:26},
{t:"a flame so criminal in dark desire.",p:99,x:94,y:929,w:370,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra chose to die than be his prize",p:99,x:94,y:960,w:415,h:26},
{t:"the light expiring from those gentle eyes.",p:99,x:94,y:992,w:451,h:26},
{t:"I saw her helpless, hand raised high above:",p:99,x:94,y:1024,w:475,h:26},
{t:"1020. I ran to save her for your proper love.",p:99,x:94,y:1055,w:485,h:26},
{t:"Here pitying her honour and her tears",p:99,x:94,y:1087,w:413,h:26},
{t:"I’ve come, against my will, to tell her fears.",p:99,x:94,y:1119,w:476,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:99,x:94,y:1170,w:102,h:26},
{t:"The wretch. No wonder that he turned so pale,",p:99,x:94,y:1222,w:508,h:26},
{t:"I saw, approaching me, his spirit fail,",p:99,x:94,y:1254,w:404,h:26},
{t:"97",p:100,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"Je me suis étonné de son peu d'allégresse,",p:100,x:89,y:84,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Ses froids embrassements ont glacé ma tendresse.",p:100,x:89,y:115,w:556,h:26},
{t:"Mais ce coupable amour dont il est dévoré",p:100,x:89,y:147,w:460,h:26},
{t:"Dans Athènes déjà s'était-il déclaré ?",p:100,x:89,y:179,w:404,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:100,x:89,y:230,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur, souvenez-vous des plaintes de la Reine.",p:100,x:89,y:282,w:547,h:26},
{t:"1030, Un amour criminel causa toute sa haine.",p:100,x:89,y:314,w:510,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:100,x:89,y:365,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Et ce feu dans Trézène a donc recommencé ?",p:100,x:89,y:417,w:493,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:100,x:89,y:469,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Je vous ai dit, Seigneur, tout ce qui s'est passé.",p:100,x:89,y:520,w:521,h:26},
{t:"C'est trop laisser la Reine à sa douleur mortelle ;",p:100,x:89,y:552,w:533,h:26},
{t:"Souffrez que je vous quitte et me range auprès d'elle.",p:100,x:89,y:584,w:587,h:26},
{t:"Scène 2",p:100,x:89,y:669,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Thésée, Hyppolyte",p:100,x:89,y:722,w:201,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:100,x:89,y:825,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! le voici. Grands Dieux ! à ce noble maintien",p:100,x:89,y:877,w:527,h:26},
{t:"Quel oeil ne serait pas trompé comme le mien ?",p:100,x:89,y:909,w:522,h:26},
{t:"Faut-il que sur le front d'un profane adultère",p:100,x:89,y:940,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Brille de la vertu le sacré caractère ?",p:100,x:89,y:972,w:398,h:26},
{t:"Et ne devrait-on pas à des signes certains",p:100,x:89,y:1004,w:456,h:26},
{t:"1040. Reconnaître le coeur des perfides humains ?",p:100,x:89,y:1035,w:551,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:100,x:89,y:1087,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Puis-je vous demander quel funeste nuage,",p:100,x:89,y:1139,w:473,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur, a pu troubler votre auguste visage ?",p:100,x:89,y:1170,w:507,h:26},
{t:"N'osez-vous confier ce secret à ma foi ?",p:100,x:89,y:1202,w:433,h:26},
{t:"98",p:101,x:488,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"in greeting me his manner nowhere glad",p:101,x:94,y:84,w:441,h:26},
{t:"but froze what tenderness for him I had.",p:101,x:94,y:115,w:442,h:26},
{t:"No doubt that guilty love devours him, grown",p:101,x:94,y:147,w:495,h:26},
{t:"from what in Athens must be also known?",p:101,x:94,y:179,w:458,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:101,x:94,y:230,w:93,h:26},
{t:"You will recall requests the queen has made",p:101,x:94,y:282,w:479,h:26},
{t:"1030. who felt of foul and hateful love afraid.",p:101,x:94,y:314,w:493,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:101,x:94,y:365,w:102,h:26},
{t:"That here in Troezen has burst out at last.",p:101,x:94,y:417,w:459,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:101,x:94,y:469,w:93,h:26},
{t:"I’ve told you now, my lord, of all that’s passed.",p:101,x:94,y:520,w:515,h:26},
{t:"Such mortal grief I leave her in that, sir,",p:101,x:94,y:552,w:441,h:26},
{t:"permit me to withdraw and be with her.",p:101,x:94,y:584,w:434,h:26},
{t:"Scene 2",p:101,x:94,y:669,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Theseus, Hippolytus",p:101,x:94,y:722,w:218,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:101,x:94,y:825,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Here he is, by heaven, where eyes would be",p:101,x:94,y:877,w:482,h:26},
{t:"as duped as mine by such nobility.",p:101,x:94,y:909,w:377,h:26},
{t:"Must all that sacred innocence of line",p:101,x:94,y:940,w:403,h:26},
{t:"be seen on falsehood’s brows to shine?",p:101,x:94,y:972,w:426,h:26},
{t:"Could not some certain signs have played their part",p:101,x:94,y:1004,w:563,h:26},
{t:"1040. that we discern the treacherous of heart?",p:101,x:94,y:1035,w:521,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:101,x:94,y:1087,w:138,h:26},
{t:"It seems, my father, some disastrous cloud",p:101,x:94,y:1139,w:473,h:26},
{t:"has spread itself upon one noble browed:",p:101,x:94,y:1170,w:450,h:26},
{t:"you’d not confide in me this mystery?",p:101,x:94,y:1202,w:411,h:26},
{t:"99",p:102,x:483,y:1315,w:20,h:21},
{t:"THESEE",p:102,x:89,y:84,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Perfide, oses-tu bien te montrer devant moi ?",p:102,x:89,y:135,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Monstre, qu'a trop longtemps épargné le tonnerre,",p:102,x:89,y:167,w:552,h:26},
{t:"Reste impur des brigands dont j'ai purgé la terre !",p:102,x:89,y:199,w:547,h:26},
{t:"Après que le transport d'un amour plein d'horreur",p:102,x:89,y:230,w:542,h:26},
{t:"Jusqu'au lit de ton père a porté sa fureur,",p:102,x:89,y:262,w:454,h:26},
{t:"Tu m'oses présenter une tête ennemie,",p:102,x:89,y:294,w:428,h:26},
{t:"1050. Tu parais dans des lieux pleins de ton infamie,",p:102,x:89,y:325,w:575,h:26},
{t:"Et ne vas pas chercher, sous un ciel inconnu,",p:102,x:89,y:357,w:490,h:26},
{t:"Des pays où mon nom ne soit pas parvenu.",p:102,x:89,y:389,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Fuis, traître. Ne viens point braver ici ma haine,",p:102,x:89,y:420,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Et tenter un courroux que je retiens à peine.",p:102,x:89,y:452,w:485,h:26},
{t:"C'est bien assez pour moi de l'opprobre éternel",p:102,x:89,y:484,w:514,h:26},
{t:"D'avoir pu mettre au jour un fils si criminel,",p:102,x:89,y:515,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Sans que ta mort encor, honteuse à ma mémoire,",p:102,x:89,y:547,w:544,h:26},
{t:"De mes nobles travaux vienne souiller la gloire;.",p:102,x:89,y:579,w:527,h:26},
{t:"Fuis, et si tu ne veux qu'un chatîment soudain",p:102,x:89,y:610,w:503,h:26},
{t:"1060. T'ajoute aux scélérats qu'a punis cette main,",p:102,x:89,y:642,w:557,h:26},
{t:"Prends garde que jamais l'astre qui nous éclaire",p:102,x:89,y:674,w:522,h:26},
{t:"Ne te voie en ces lieux mettre un pied téméraire.",p:102,x:89,y:705,w:535,h:26},
{t:"Fuis, dis-je, et sans retour précipitant tes pas,",p:102,x:89,y:737,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Se ton horrible aspect purge tous mes états.",p:102,x:89,y:769,w:485,h:26},
{t:"Et toi, Neptune, et toi, si jadis mon courage",p:102,x:89,y:800,w:476,h:26},
{t:"D'infâmes assassins nettoya ton rivage,",p:102,x:89,y:832,w:432,h:26},
{t:"Souviens-toi que pour prix de mes efforts heureux,",p:102,x:89,y:864,w:558,h:26},
{t:"Tu promis d'exercer le premier de mes voeux.",p:102,x:89,y:895,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Dans les longues rigueurs d'une prison cruelle",p:102,x:89,y:927,w:501,h:26},
{t:"1070. Je n'ai point imploré ta puissance immortelle.",p:102,x:89,y:959,w:565,h:26},
{t:"Avare du secours que j'attends de tes soins,",p:102,x:89,y:990,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Mes voeux t'ont réservé pour de plus grans besoins.",p:102,x:89,y:1022,w:569,h:26},
{t:"Je t'implore aujourd'hui. Venge un malheureux père.",p:102,x:89,y:1054,w:575,h:26},
{t:"J'abandonne ce traître à toute ta colère.",p:102,x:89,y:1085,w:435,h:26},
{t:"Etouffe dans son sang ses désirs effrontés.",p:102,x:89,y:1117,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Thésée à tes fureurs connaîtra tes bontés.",p:102,x:89,y:1149,w:459,h:26},
{t:"100",p:103,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"THESEUS",p:103,x:94,y:84,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Wretch! You dare to show yourself to me?",p:103,x:94,y:135,w:457,h:26},
{t:"Too long escaped the thunder Jove has hurled,",p:103,x:94,y:167,w:510,h:26},
{t:"the last of thieves of whom I purged the world,",p:103,x:94,y:199,w:514,h:26},
{t:"whom afterwards a wayward lust has led",p:103,x:94,y:230,w:445,h:26},
{t:"to violate, would you, a father’s bed?",p:103,x:94,y:262,w:405,h:26},
{t:"You’d stand before me as an enemy",p:103,x:94,y:294,w:391,h:26},
{t:"1050. within the very place of infamy,",p:103,x:94,y:325,w:414,h:26},
{t:"and not to some unknown, far country fled",p:103,x:94,y:357,w:466,h:26},
{t:"where still my reputation has not spread.",p:103,x:94,y:389,w:449,h:26},
{t:"Flee immediately and do not deign",p:103,x:94,y:420,w:377,h:26},
{t:"to brave an anger that I can’t restrain.",p:103,x:94,y:452,w:420,h:26},
{t:"Enough the infamy that I have won",p:103,x:94,y:484,w:385,h:26},
{t:"to have disclosed to me so vile a son",p:103,x:94,y:515,w:401,h:26},
{t:"without as well your shameful death to soil",p:103,x:94,y:547,w:467,h:26},
{t:"the noble handiwork of glorious toil.",p:103,x:94,y:579,w:392,h:26},
{t:"Leave now unless you want to join that band",p:103,x:94,y:610,w:487,h:26},
{t:"1060. of monsters silenced by this angry hand,",p:103,x:94,y:642,w:513,h:26},
{t:"and pray the sun will never light the ground",p:103,x:94,y:674,w:478,h:26},
{t:"where still that reckless foot of yours is found.",p:103,x:94,y:705,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Be gone, immediately, and in your flight",p:103,x:94,y:737,w:439,h:26},
{t:"so purge my kingdom of your odious sight.",p:103,x:94,y:769,w:469,h:26},
{t:"I call on Neptune: if by courage I",p:103,x:94,y:800,w:361,h:26},
{t:"have cleared your shores of murderers, I cry",p:103,x:94,y:832,w:487,h:26},
{t:"you grant the recompense for that great task,",p:103,x:94,y:864,w:500,h:26},
{t:"your first of promises is what I ask.",p:103,x:94,y:895,w:387,h:26},
{t:"Recall in prison days, in that hard hour",p:103,x:94,y:927,w:423,h:26},
{t:"1070. I did not summon up your awful power",p:103,x:94,y:959,w:494,h:26},
{t:"but carefully hoarded it, to have it freed",p:103,x:94,y:990,w:436,h:26},
{t:"the moment finally of greatest need.",p:103,x:94,y:1022,w:399,h:26},
{t:"I ask you now. Avenge a father. Wage",p:103,x:94,y:1054,w:417,h:26},
{t:"against this vilest traitor all your rage.",p:103,x:94,y:1085,w:417,h:26},
{t:"Expunge that lust in blood and let me know",p:103,x:94,y:1117,w:474,h:26},
{t:"your favour in the fury that you show.",p:103,x:94,y:1149,w:416,h:26},
{t:"101",p:104,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:104,x:89,y:84,w:121,h:26},
{t:"D'un amour criminel Phèdre accuse Hippolyte !",p:104,x:89,y:135,w:511,h:26},
{t:"Un tel excés d'horreur rend mon âme interdite ;",p:104,x:89,y:167,w:523,h:26},
{t:"Tant de coups imprévus m'accablent à la fois",p:104,x:89,y:199,w:490,h:26},
{t:"1080. Qu'ils m'ôtent la parole et m'étouffent la voix.",p:104,x:89,y:230,w:571,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:104,x:89,y:282,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Traître, tu prétendais qu'en un lâche silence",p:104,x:89,y:334,w:478,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre ensevelirait ta brutale insolence.",p:104,x:89,y:365,w:436,h:26},
{t:"Il fallait, en fuyant, ne pas abandonner",p:104,x:89,y:397,w:425,h:26},
{t:"Le fer qui dans ses mains aide à te condamner ;",p:104,x:89,y:429,w:526,h:26},
{t:"Ou plutôt il fallait, comblant ta perfidie,",p:104,x:89,y:460,w:429,h:26},
{t:"Lui ravir tout d'un coup la parole et la vie.",p:104,x:89,y:492,w:458,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:104,x:89,y:544,w:121,h:26},
{t:"D'un mensonge si noir justement irrité,",p:104,x:89,y:595,w:428,h:26},
{t:"Je devrais faire ici parler la vérité,",p:104,x:89,y:627,w:370,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur. Mais je supprime un secret qui vous touche.",p:104,x:89,y:659,w:592,h:26},
{t:"1090. Approuvez le respect qui me ferme la bouche ;",p:104,x:89,y:690,w:581,h:26},
{t:"Et sans vouloir vous-même augmenter vos ennuis,",p:104,x:89,y:722,w:553,h:26},
{t:"Examinez ma vie, et songez qui je suis.",p:104,x:89,y:754,w:431,h:26},
{t:"Quelques crimes toujours précèdent les grands crimes.",p:104,x:89,y:785,w:599,h:26},
{t:"Quiconque a pu franchir les bornes légitimes",p:104,x:89,y:817,w:485,h:26},
{t:"Peut violer enfin les droits les plus sacrés ;",p:104,x:89,y:849,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Ainsi que la vertu, le crime a ses degrés,",p:104,x:89,y:880,w:444,h:26},
{t:"Et jamais on n'a vu la timide innocence",p:104,x:89,y:912,w:427,h:26},
{t:"Passer subitement à l'extrême licence.",p:104,x:89,y:944,w:418,h:26},
{t:"Un jour seul ne fait point d'un mortel vertueux",p:104,x:89,y:975,w:507,h:26},
{t:"1100. Un perfide assassin, un lâche incestueux.",p:104,x:89,y:1007,w:519,h:26},
{t:"Elevé dans le sein d'une chaste héroïne,",p:104,x:89,y:1039,w:435,h:26},
{t:"Je n'ai point de son sang démenti l'origine.",p:104,x:89,y:1070,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Pitthée, estimé sage entre tous les humains,",p:104,x:89,y:1102,w:485,h:26},
{t:"Daigna m'instruire encore au sortir de ses mains.",p:104,x:89,y:1134,w:536,h:26},
{t:"Je ne veux point me peindre avec trop d'avantage ;",p:104,x:89,y:1165,w:563,h:26},
{t:"Mais si quelque vertu m'est tombée en partage,",p:104,x:89,y:1197,w:521,h:26},
{t:"102",p:105,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:105,x:94,y:84,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Of love so criminal I am accused!",p:105,x:94,y:135,w:364,h:26},
{t:"The horror of it leaves my soul abused.",p:105,x:94,y:167,w:427,h:26},
{t:"Suddenly so many blows are sprung",p:105,x:94,y:199,w:395,h:26},
{t:"1080. on me I lose my balance and my tongue.",p:105,x:94,y:230,w:517,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:105,x:94,y:282,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Wretch, you thought that Phaedra’d have the sense",p:105,x:94,y:334,w:560,h:26},
{t:"to keep in confidence your insolence.",p:105,x:94,y:365,w:404,h:26},
{t:"You failed. You left her hands there on the hilt",p:105,x:94,y:397,w:504,h:26},
{t:"in fleeing — which, my Prince, confirms your guilt.",p:105,x:94,y:429,w:549,h:26},
{t:"Better to have crowned your outrage on my wife",p:105,x:94,y:460,w:529,h:26},
{t:"and with a blow have ended speech and life.",p:105,x:94,y:492,w:483,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:105,x:94,y:544,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Incensed, and justly so, at such a lie",p:105,x:94,y:595,w:400,h:26},
{t:"I’d have the truth be spoken out, but I,",p:105,x:94,y:627,w:429,h:26},
{t:"my lord, will show this secret some respect",p:105,x:94,y:659,w:470,h:26},
{t:"1090. and close my mouth to whom it most affect,",p:105,x:94,y:690,w:553,h:26},
{t:"and so, without enraging you the more",p:105,x:94,y:722,w:425,h:26},
{t:"I’d ask you think on how I was before.",p:105,x:94,y:754,w:419,h:26},
{t:"Small crimes precede the greater, and a lapse",p:105,x:94,y:785,w:503,h:26},
{t:"needs time cross all boundaries, and perhaps",p:105,x:94,y:817,w:493,h:26},
{t:"to violate at length our sacred rights.",p:105,x:94,y:849,w:405,h:26},
{t:"But crime like virtue slowly climbs its heights,",p:105,x:94,y:880,w:499,h:26},
{t:"and how can simple innocence then seem",p:105,x:94,y:912,w:453,h:26},
{t:"to swing immediately to wild extreme?",p:105,x:94,y:944,w:421,h:26},
{t:"A single day, my lord, does not suffice",p:105,x:94,y:975,w:418,h:26},
{t:"1100. to make the murderer or man of vice.",p:105,x:94,y:1007,w:482,h:26},
{t:"Chaste heroine for mother, such was mine;",p:105,x:94,y:1039,w:471,h:26},
{t:"who gave the blood engendering my crime?",p:105,x:94,y:1070,w:477,h:26},
{t:"Pittheus, the wisest anywhere,",p:105,x:94,y:1102,w:334,h:26},
{t:"instructed me each moment from her care.",p:105,x:94,y:1134,w:469,h:26},
{t:"I’d not depict myself too favourably",p:105,x:94,y:1165,w:388,h:26},
{t:"but think these expectations speak for me.",p:105,x:94,y:1197,w:466,h:26},
{t:"103",p:106,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Seigneur, je crois surtout avoir fait éclater",p:106,x:89,y:84,w:461,h:26},
{t:"La haine des forfaits qu'on ose m'imputer.",p:106,x:89,y:115,w:460,h:26},
{t:"C'est par là qu'Hippolyte est connu dans la Grèce.",p:106,x:89,y:147,w:544,h:26},
{t:"1110. J'ai poussé la vertu jusques à la rudesse.",p:106,x:89,y:179,w:517,h:26},
{t:"On sait de mes chagrins l'inflexible rigueur.",p:106,x:89,y:210,w:472,h:26},
{t:"Le jour n'est pas plus pur que le fond de mon coeur.",p:106,x:89,y:242,w:571,h:26},
{t:"Et l'on veut qu'Hippolyte, épris d'un feu profane...",p:106,x:89,y:274,w:545,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:106,x:89,y:325,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Oui, c'est ce même orgueil, lâche, qui te condamne.",p:106,x:89,y:377,w:568,h:26},
{t:"je vois de tes froideurs le principe odieux.",p:106,x:89,y:409,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre seule charmait tes impudiques yeux.",p:106,x:89,y:440,w:482,h:26},
{t:"Et pour tout autre objet ton âme indifférente",p:106,x:89,y:472,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Dédaignait de brûler d'une flamme innocente.",p:106,x:89,y:504,w:499,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:106,x:89,y:555,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Non, mon père, ce coeur (c'est trop vous le celer)",p:106,x:89,y:607,w:543,h:26},
{t:"1120. N'a point d'un chaste amour dédaigné de brûler.",p:106,x:89,y:639,w:597,h:26},
{t:"Je confesse à vos pieds ma véritable offense :",p:106,x:89,y:670,w:501,h:26},
{t:"J'aime, j'aime, il est vrai, malgré votre défense.",p:106,x:89,y:702,w:522,h:26},
{t:"Aricie à ses lois tient mes voeux asservis ;",p:106,x:89,y:734,w:462,h:26},
{t:"La fille de Pallante a vaincu votre fils.",p:106,x:89,y:765,w:406,h:26},
{t:"Je l'adore, et mon âme, à vos ordres rebelle,",p:106,x:89,y:797,w:489,h:26},
{t:"Ne peut ni soupirer ni brûler que pour elle.",p:106,x:89,y:829,w:465,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:106,x:89,y:880,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Tu l'aimes ? Ciel ! Mais non, l'artifice est grossier.",p:106,x:89,y:932,w:540,h:26},
{t:"Tu te feins criminel pour te justifier.",p:106,x:89,y:964,w:392,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:106,x:89,y:1015,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur, depuis six mois, je l'évite, et je l'aime.",p:106,x:89,y:1067,w:532,h:26},
{t:"1130. Je venais en tremblant vous le dire à vous-même.",p:106,x:89,y:1099,w:615,h:26},
{t:"Hé quoi ! de votre erreur rien ne vous peut tirer ?",p:106,x:89,y:1130,w:542,h:26},
{t:"Par quel affreux serment faut-il vous rassurer ?",p:106,x:89,y:1162,w:516,h:26},
{t:"Que la terre, le ciel, que toute la nature...",p:106,x:89,y:1194,w:456,h:26},
{t:"104",p:107,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"My birthright is the very one to state",p:107,x:94,y:84,w:401,h:26},
{t:"that what’s imputed to me, that I hate.",p:107,x:94,y:115,w:426,h:26},
{t:"In Greece Hippolytus is thought extreme.",p:107,x:94,y:147,w:451,h:26},
{t:"1110. I forced that virtue in a harsh regime.",p:107,x:94,y:179,w:482,h:26},
{t:"and as inflexibly I’ve kept that part",p:107,x:94,y:210,w:382,h:26},
{t:"the day’s not purer than the bottom of my heart.",p:107,x:94,y:242,w:534,h:26},
{t:"And now an impure love, they say, that stems. . .",p:107,x:94,y:274,w:542,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:107,x:94,y:325,w:102,h:26},
{t:"It is that overweening pride condemns",p:107,x:94,y:377,w:419,h:26},
{t:"you, coldly calculating that the prize",p:107,x:94,y:409,w:394,h:26},
{t:"was Phaedra blossoming in your hot eyes.",p:107,x:94,y:440,w:459,h:26},
{t:"You stay at other’s charms indifferent,",p:107,x:94,y:472,w:417,h:26},
{t:"disdaining love that’s merely innocent.",p:107,x:94,y:504,w:420,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:107,x:94,y:555,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Why, father, should I stay so taciturn?",p:107,x:94,y:607,w:418,h:26},
{t:"1120. An ardent love has not refused to burn",p:107,x:94,y:639,w:492,h:26},
{t:"but burns for someone else, whom you have made",p:107,x:94,y:670,w:554,h:26},
{t:"an exile, one prohibited, since you forbade",p:107,x:94,y:702,w:465,h:26},
{t:"Aricia betrothal. Still, it’s done:",p:107,x:94,y:734,w:340,h:26},
{t:"the child of Pallas overcame your son.",p:107,x:94,y:765,w:414,h:26},
{t:"My soul, against your orders, only yearns",p:107,x:94,y:797,w:451,h:26},
{t:"rebelliously for her: it breathes and burns.",p:107,x:94,y:829,w:462,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:107,x:94,y:880,w:102,h:26},
{t:"It’s her you love, you say? And that will make",p:107,x:94,y:932,w:499,h:26},
{t:"a hideous crime into a youth’s mistake?",p:107,x:94,y:964,w:432,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:107,x:94,y:1015,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Six months I fought it: only now, my lord,",p:107,x:94,y:1067,w:460,h:26},
{t:"1130. I come to tell you of my one adored.",p:107,x:94,y:1099,w:469,h:26},
{t:"What words can hold you from this wrongful path,",p:107,x:94,y:1130,w:546,h:26},
{t:"what oath is possible against your wrath?",p:107,x:94,y:1162,w:452,h:26},
{t:"That earth or sky or widest nature’s bounds. . .",p:107,x:94,y:1194,w:514,h:26},
{t:"105",p:108,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"THESEE",p:108,x:89,y:84,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Toujours les scélérats ont recours au parjure.",p:108,x:89,y:135,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Cesse, cesse, et m'épargne un importun discours,",p:108,x:89,y:167,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Si ta fausse vertu n'a point d'autre recours.",p:108,x:89,y:199,w:473,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:108,x:89,y:250,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Elle vous paraît fausse et pleine d'artifice.",p:108,x:89,y:302,w:454,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre au fond de son coeur me rend plus de justice.",p:108,x:89,y:334,w:582,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:108,x:89,y:385,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! que ton impudence excite mon courroux !",p:108,x:89,y:437,w:507,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:108,x:89,y:489,w:121,h:26},
{t:"1140. Quel temps à mon exil, quel lieu prescrivez-vous ?",p:108,x:89,y:540,w:620,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:108,x:89,y:592,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Fusse-tu par-delà les colonnes d'Alcide,",p:108,x:89,y:644,w:431,h:26},
{t:"Je me croirais encor trop voisin d'un perfide.",p:108,x:89,y:675,w:486,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:108,x:89,y:727,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Chargé du crime affreux dont vous me soupçonnez,",p:108,x:89,y:779,w:563,h:26},
{t:"Quels amis me plaindront, quand vous m'abandonnez ?",p:108,x:89,y:810,w:605,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:108,x:89,y:862,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Va chercher des amis dont l'estime funeste",p:108,x:89,y:914,w:469,h:26},
{t:"Honore l'adultère, applaudisse à l'inceste ;",p:108,x:89,y:945,w:463,h:26},
{t:"Des traîtres, des ingrats sans honneur et sans loi,",p:108,x:89,y:977,w:541,h:26},
{t:"Dignes de protéger un méchant tel que toi.",p:108,x:89,y:1009,w:469,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:108,x:89,y:1060,w:121,h:26},
{t:"1150. Vous me parlez toujours d'inceste et d'adultère !",p:108,x:89,y:1112,w:600,h:26},
{t:"Je me tais. Cependant Phèdre sort d'une mère,",p:108,x:89,y:1144,w:513,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre est d'un sang, Seigneur, vous le savez trop bien,",p:108,x:89,y:1175,w:615,h:26},
{t:"De toutes ces horreurs plus rempli que le mien.",p:108,x:89,y:1207,w:518,h:26},
{t:"106",p:109,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"THESEUS",p:109,x:94,y:84,w:102,h:26},
{t:"It is the perjurer who all times sounds",p:109,x:94,y:135,w:416,h:26},
{t:"most plausible. So save me from a spurious speech",p:109,x:94,y:167,w:561,h:26},
{t:"if bogus virtue’s nothing else to teach.",p:109,x:94,y:199,w:418,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:109,x:94,y:250,w:138,h:26},
{t:"To you perhaps it seems mere artifice",p:109,x:94,y:302,w:412,h:26},
{t:"but Phaedra’s heart will reach the truth of this.",p:109,x:94,y:334,w:511,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:109,x:94,y:385,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Enough of impudence. I’ll have no more.",p:109,x:94,y:437,w:444,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:109,x:94,y:489,w:138,h:26},
{t:"1140. Exile then, my father. Where? And how long for?",p:109,x:94,y:540,w:600,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:109,x:94,y:592,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Banished beyond the pillars of far Hercules",p:109,x:94,y:644,w:467,h:26},
{t:"would be too close for traitors such as these.",p:109,x:94,y:675,w:489,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:109,x:94,y:727,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Charged by such a crime as you suspect",p:109,x:94,y:779,w:439,h:26},
{t:"where will be friends for me if you defect?",p:109,x:94,y:810,w:458,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:109,x:94,y:862,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Oh, you’ll find those who smile quite pleasantly",p:109,x:94,y:914,w:516,h:26},
{t:"on crimes of incest and adultery:",p:109,x:94,y:945,w:360,h:26},
{t:"traitors, without honour, such as view",p:109,x:94,y:977,w:413,h:26},
{t:"it worth protecting such a rogue as you.",p:109,x:94,y:1009,w:436,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:109,x:94,y:1060,w:138,h:26},
{t:"1150. You speak of incest and adultery",p:109,x:94,y:1112,w:425,h:26},
{t:"but know that Phaedra’s ancestry will see",p:109,x:94,y:1144,w:452,h:26},
{t:"a thicker bloodline and more monstrous grown",p:109,x:94,y:1175,w:508,h:26},
{t:"with deadly horrors in it than my own.",p:109,x:94,y:1207,w:417,h:26},
{t:"107",p:110,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"THESEE",p:110,x:89,y:84,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Quoi ! ta rage à mes yeux perd toute retenue ?",p:110,x:89,y:135,w:516,h:26},
{t:"Pour la dernière fois, ôte-toi de ma vue.",p:110,x:89,y:167,w:436,h:26},
{t:"Sors, traître. N'attends pas qu'un père furieux",p:110,x:89,y:199,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Te fasse avec opprobre arracher de ces lieux.",p:110,x:89,y:230,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Scène 3",p:110,x:89,y:314,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Thésée",p:110,x:89,y:365,w:76,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:110,x:89,y:449,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Misérable, tu cours à ta perte infaillible.",p:110,x:89,y:500,w:431,h:26},
{t:"Neptune, par le fleuve aux Dieux mêmes terrible,",p:110,x:89,y:532,w:538,h:26},
{t:"1160. M'a donné sa parole, et va l'exécuter.",p:110,x:89,y:564,w:480,h:26},
{t:"Un Dieu vengeur te suit, tu ne peux l'éviter.",p:110,x:89,y:595,w:479,h:26},
{t:"Je t'aimais ; et je sens que malgré ton offense,",p:110,x:89,y:627,w:513,h:26},
{t:"Mes entrailles pour toi se troublent par avance.",p:110,x:89,y:659,w:514,h:26},
{t:"Mais à te condamner tu m'as trop engagé.",p:110,x:89,y:690,w:461,h:26},
{t:"Jamais père en effet fut-il plus outragé ?",p:110,x:89,y:722,w:442,h:26},
{t:"Justes Dieux, qui voyez la douleur qui m'accable,",p:110,x:89,y:754,w:536,h:26},
{t:"Ai-je pu mettre au jour un enfant si coupable ?",p:110,x:89,y:785,w:511,h:26},
{t:"Scène 4",p:110,x:89,y:871,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phèdre, Thésée",p:110,x:89,y:924,w:167,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:110,x:89,y:1007,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur, je viens à vous, pleine d'un juste effroi.",p:110,x:89,y:1059,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Votre voix redoutable a passé jusqu'à moi.",p:110,x:89,y:1090,w:465,h:26},
{t:"Je crains qu'un prompt effet n'ai suivi la menace.",p:110,x:89,y:1122,w:535,h:26},
{t:"1170. S'il en est temps encore, épargnez votre race,",p:110,x:89,y:1154,w:573,h:26},
{t:"Respectez votre sang, j'ose vous en prier.",p:110,x:89,y:1185,w:457,h:26},
{t:"Sauvez-moi de l'horreur de l'entendre crier ;",p:110,x:89,y:1217,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Ne me préparez point la douleur éternelle",p:110,x:89,y:1249,w:453,h:26},
{t:"De l'avoir fait répandre à la main paternelle.",p:110,x:89,y:1280,w:482,h:26},
{t:"108",p:111,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"THESEUS",p:111,x:94,y:84,w:102,h:26},
{t:"You’re mad enough to let the words run on?",p:111,x:94,y:135,w:480,h:26},
{t:"I tell you for the last time now: be gone.",p:111,x:94,y:167,w:443,h:26},
{t:"Go while you can, before a father’s wrath",p:111,x:94,y:199,w:450,h:26},
{t:"with imprecations sends you down that path.",p:111,x:94,y:230,w:490,h:26},
{t:"Scene 3",p:111,x:94,y:314,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Theseus",p:111,x:94,y:365,w:88,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:111,x:94,y:449,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Ineluctably that fatal shore",p:111,x:94,y:500,w:293,h:26},
{t:"you now approach, my son, for Neptune swore",p:111,x:94,y:532,w:510,h:26},
{t:"1160. by Styx an oath to me, and will obey,",p:111,x:94,y:564,w:479,h:26},
{t:"a great god follows you as night the day.",p:111,x:94,y:595,w:447,h:26},
{t:"I loved you, still I do, despite the crime,",p:111,x:94,y:627,w:439,h:26},
{t:"and shudder for the vengeance that in time",p:111,x:94,y:659,w:472,h:26},
{t:"must come.  Inevitable. My hands are tied:",p:111,x:94,y:690,w:471,h:26},
{t:"no father ever felt so justified.",p:111,x:94,y:722,w:330,h:26},
{t:"But pain still overwhelms me, makes me wild:",p:111,x:94,y:754,w:503,h:26},
{t:"and gods! that I begot so foul a child.",p:111,x:94,y:785,w:410,h:26},
{t:"Scene 4",p:111,x:94,y:871,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phaedra, Theseus",p:111,x:94,y:924,w:192,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:111,x:94,y:1007,w:104,h:26},
{t:"My lord, I fear some error has occurred",p:111,x:94,y:1059,w:429,h:26},
{t:"in that fierce dispute which I’ve overheard:",p:111,x:94,y:1090,w:470,h:26},
{t:"For lest the retributions follow on apace",p:111,x:94,y:1122,w:432,h:26},
{t:"1170. I ask for mercy, that you save your race.",p:111,x:94,y:1154,w:517,h:26},
{t:"Reflect a little lest that raging flood",p:111,x:94,y:1185,w:383,h:26},
{t:"bring home the horror of his screaming blood.",p:111,x:94,y:1217,w:502,h:26},
{t:"Give not to Phaedra an eternal guilt",p:111,x:94,y:1249,w:388,h:26},
{t:"of causing son’s blood by a father spilt.",p:111,x:94,y:1280,w:427,h:26},
{t:"109",p:112,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"THESEE",p:112,x:89,y:84,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Non, Madame, en mon sang ma main n'a point trempé ;",p:112,x:89,y:135,w:614,h:26},
{t:"Mais l'ingrat toutefois ne m'est point échappé.",p:112,x:89,y:167,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Une immortelle main de sa perte est chargée.",p:112,x:89,y:199,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Neptune me la doit, et vous serez vengée.",p:112,x:89,y:230,w:462,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:112,x:89,y:282,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Neptune vous la doit ! Quoi ? vos voeux irrités...",p:112,x:89,y:334,w:528,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:112,x:89,y:385,w:85,h:26},
{t:"1180. Quoi ! craignez-vous déjà qu'ils ne soient écoutés ?",p:112,x:89,y:437,w:630,h:26},
{t:"Joignez-vous bien plutôt à mes voeux légitimes.",p:112,x:89,y:469,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Dans toute leur noirceur retracez-moi ses crimes ;",p:112,x:89,y:500,w:548,h:26},
{t:"Echauffez mes transports trop lents, trop retenus.",p:112,x:89,y:532,w:544,h:26},
{t:"Tous ses crimes encor ne vous sont pas connus ;",p:112,x:89,y:564,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Sa fureur contre vous se répand en injures ;",p:112,x:89,y:595,w:483,h:26},
{t:"Votre bouche, dit-il, est pleine d'impostures ;",p:112,x:89,y:627,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Il soutient qu'Aricie a son coeur, a sa foi,",p:112,x:89,y:659,w:447,h:26},
{t:"Qu'il aime.",p:112,x:89,y:690,w:116,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:112,x:89,y:742,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Quoi, Seigneur !",p:112,x:89,y:794,w:178,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:112,x:89,y:845,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Il l'a dit devant moi.",p:112,x:89,y:897,w:220,h:26},
{t:"Mais je sais rejeter un frivole artifice.",p:112,x:89,y:929,w:405,h:26},
{t:"1190. Espérons de Neptune une prompte justice.",p:112,x:89,y:960,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Je vais moi-même encore, au pied de ses autels,",p:112,x:89,y:992,w:532,h:26},
{t:"Le presser d'accomplir ses serments immortels.",p:112,x:89,y:1024,w:519,h:26},
{t:"Scène 5",p:112,x:89,y:1109,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phèdre",p:112,x:89,y:1162,w:75,h:26},
{t:"110",p:113,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"THESEUS",p:113,x:94,y:84,w:102,h:26},
{t:"By no rash act of mine is this hand stained",p:113,x:94,y:135,w:466,h:26},
{t:"but neither is evasion to be gained.",p:113,x:94,y:167,w:385,h:26},
{t:"A great god’s hand is poised to strike. At last",p:113,x:94,y:199,w:490,h:26},
{t:"will Neptune recompense for what has passed.",p:113,x:94,y:230,w:507,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:113,x:94,y:282,w:104,h:26},
{t:"Neptune? What! Your rage has said that word . . .",p:113,x:94,y:334,w:542,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:113,x:94,y:385,w:102,h:26},
{t:"1180. You think your husband hasn’t yet been heard?",p:113,x:94,y:437,w:585,h:26},
{t:"Better, Madam, that you add your voice to mine",p:113,x:94,y:469,w:524,h:26},
{t:"and recognize the heavy depths of crime.",p:113,x:94,y:500,w:451,h:26},
{t:"Stir up this hand of mine that’s been restrained.",p:113,x:94,y:532,w:525,h:26},
{t:"I’ve found still greater crimes, for which I’ve gained",p:113,x:94,y:564,w:564,h:26},
{t:"his fury at you. Says your mouth exults",p:113,x:94,y:595,w:431,h:26},
{t:"in vain impostures and in base insults,",p:113,x:94,y:627,w:419,h:26},
{t:"that to Aricia his heart is pledged.",p:113,x:94,y:659,w:368,h:26},
{t:"He loves . . .",p:113,x:94,y:690,w:139,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:113,x:94,y:742,w:104,h:26},
{t:"Aricia?",p:113,x:94,y:794,w:71,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:113,x:94,y:845,w:102,h:26},
{t:"So he alleged.",p:113,x:94,y:897,w:155,h:26},
{t:"But I saw through the trick and sent him hence",p:113,x:94,y:929,w:516,h:26},
{t:"1190. but Neptune waits for him, and no pretence",p:113,x:94,y:960,w:545,h:26},
{t:"will stay that hand. I go to altars to implore",p:113,x:94,y:992,w:475,h:26},
{t:"he now fulfil to me the vow he swore.",p:113,x:94,y:1024,w:411,h:26},
{t:"Scene 5",p:113,x:94,y:1109,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Phaedre",p:113,x:94,y:1162,w:88,h:26},
{t:"111",p:114,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:114,x:89,y:84,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Il sort. Quelle nouvelle a frappé mon oreille ?",p:114,x:89,y:135,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Quel feu mal étouffé dans mon coeur se réveille ?",p:114,x:89,y:167,w:541,h:26},
{t:"Quel coup de foudre, ô ciel ! et quel funeste avis !",p:114,x:89,y:199,w:545,h:26},
{t:"Je volais toute entière au secours de son fils ;",p:114,x:89,y:230,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Et m'arrachant des bras d'OEnone épouvantée,",p:114,x:89,y:262,w:513,h:26},
{t:"Je cédais au remords dont j'étais tourmentée.",p:114,x:89,y:294,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Qui sait même où m'allait porter ce repentir ?",p:114,x:89,y:325,w:498,h:26},
{t:"1200. Peut-être à m'accuser j'aurais pu consentir ;",p:114,x:89,y:357,w:554,h:26},
{t:"Peut-être, si la voix ne m'eût été coupée,",p:114,x:89,y:389,w:451,h:26},
{t:"L'affreuse vérité me serait échappée.",p:114,x:89,y:420,w:404,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte est sensible, et ne sent rien pour moi !",p:114,x:89,y:452,w:532,h:26},
{t:"Aricie a son coeur ! Aricie a sa foi",p:114,x:89,y:484,w:364,h:26},
{t:"Ah, dieux ! Lorsqu'à mes voeux l'ingrat inexorable",p:114,x:89,y:515,w:547,h:26},
{t:"S'armait d'un oeil si fier, d'un front si redoutable,",p:114,x:89,y:547,w:537,h:26},
{t:"Je pensais qu'à l'amour son coeur toujours fermé",p:114,x:89,y:579,w:536,h:26},
{t:"Fût contre tout mon sexe également armé.",p:114,x:89,y:610,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Une autre cependant a fléchi son audace ;",p:114,x:89,y:642,w:461,h:26},
{t:"1210. Devant ses yeux cruels une autre a trouvé grâce.",p:114,x:89,y:674,w:606,h:26},
{t:"Peut-être a-t-il un coeur facile à s'attendrir.",p:114,x:89,y:705,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Je suis le seul objet qu'il ne saurait souffrir ;",p:114,x:89,y:737,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Et je me chargerais du soin de le défendre ?",p:114,x:89,y:769,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Scène 6",p:114,x:89,y:872,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre, Oenone",p:114,x:89,y:924,w:174,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:114,x:89,y:1007,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Chère OEnone, sais-tu ce que je viens d'apprendre ?",p:114,x:89,y:1059,w:573,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:114,x:89,y:1110,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Non ; mais je viens tremblante, à ne vous point mentir.",p:114,x:89,y:1162,w:607,h:26},
{t:"J'ai pâli du dessein qui vous a fait sortir ;",p:114,x:89,y:1194,w:448,h:26},
{t:"J'ai craint une fureur à vous-même fatale.",p:114,x:89,y:1225,w:457,h:26},
{t:"112",p:115,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:115,x:94,y:84,w:104,h:26},
{t:"He’s gone, and now such tidings beat my ears",p:115,x:94,y:135,w:502,h:26},
{t:"and like a fire half-stifled burst in fears:",p:115,x:94,y:167,w:434,h:26},
{t:"these fresh disasters fall as thunderbolts.",p:115,x:94,y:199,w:448,h:26},
{t:"I came to save the son from such assaults,",p:115,x:94,y:230,w:468,h:26},
{t:"and tore myself from old Oenone’s woes.",p:115,x:94,y:262,w:448,h:26},
{t:"So overcome by sharp remorse, who knows",p:115,x:94,y:294,w:477,h:26},
{t:"how far my conscience could have carried me",p:115,x:94,y:325,w:496,h:26},
{t:"1200. to stop, confess it all in honesty.",p:115,x:94,y:357,w:424,h:26},
{t:"If no hard words had cut my message short",p:115,x:94,y:389,w:477,h:26},
{t:"what horrors would that truth had wrought.",p:115,x:94,y:420,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus can feel but not for me.",p:115,x:94,y:452,w:379,h:26},
{t:"His heart’s Aricia’s and so must be.",p:115,x:94,y:484,w:383,h:26},
{t:"Gods! I thought that when his eye and brow",p:115,x:94,y:515,w:481,h:26},
{t:"had armed itself against my fervent vow",p:115,x:94,y:547,w:440,h:26},
{t:"he was but one that love would never vex,",p:115,x:94,y:579,w:463,h:26},
{t:"alike impregnable to all our sex.",p:115,x:94,y:610,w:350,h:26},
{t:"But someone else has forced a different face",p:115,x:94,y:642,w:486,h:26},
{t:"1210. from him, in cruel eyes has found a grace.",p:115,x:94,y:674,w:532,h:26},
{t:"Perhaps quite easily his heart can care",p:115,x:94,y:705,w:419,h:26},
{t:"and I alone the one he cannot bear,",p:115,x:94,y:737,w:392,h:26},
{t:"though in defending him, such pain incurred.",p:115,x:94,y:769,w:489,h:26},
{t:"Scene 6",p:115,x:94,y:872,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Phaere, Oenone",p:115,x:94,y:924,w:173,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:115,x:94,y:1007,w:104,h:26},
{t:"You know, Oenone, do you, what I’ve heard?",p:115,x:94,y:1059,w:491,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:115,x:94,y:1110,w:93,h:26},
{t:"No. To speak the truth, I’ve come in fear,",p:115,x:94,y:1162,w:453,h:26},
{t:"and pale to think what reason brought you here.",p:115,x:94,y:1194,w:528,h:26},
{t:"That fury could be fatal otherwise.",p:115,x:94,y:1225,w:374,h:26},
{t:"113",p:116,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:116,x:89,y:84,w:88,h:26},
{t:"OEnone, qui l'eût cru ? j'avais une rivale.",p:116,x:89,y:135,w:448,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:116,x:89,y:187,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Comment ?",p:116,x:89,y:239,w:125,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:116,x:89,y:290,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte aime, et je n'en puis douter.",p:116,x:89,y:342,w:419,h:26},
{t:"1220. Ce farouche ennemi qu'on ne pouvait dompter,",p:116,x:89,y:374,w:584,h:26},
{t:"Qu'offensait le respect, qu'importunait la plainte,",p:116,x:89,y:405,w:533,h:26},
{t:"Ce tigre, que jamais je n'abordai sans crainte,",p:116,x:89,y:437,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Soumis, apprivoisé, reconnaît un vainqueur :",p:116,x:89,y:469,w:491,h:26},
{t:"Aricie a trouvé le chemin de son coeur.",p:116,x:89,y:500,w:425,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:116,x:89,y:552,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Aricie ?",p:116,x:89,y:604,w:79,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:116,x:89,y:655,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! douleur non encore éprouvée !",p:116,x:89,y:707,w:387,h:26},
{t:"A quel nouveau tourment je me suis réservée !",p:116,x:89,y:739,w:513,h:26},
{t:"Tout ce que j'ai souffert, mes craintes, mes transports,",p:116,x:89,y:770,w:600,h:26},
{t:"La fureur de mes yeux, l'horreur de mes remords,",p:116,x:89,y:802,w:545,h:26},
{t:"Et d'un refus cruel l'insupportable injure",p:116,x:89,y:834,w:436,h:26},
{t:"1230. N'était qu'un faible essai du tourment que j'endure.",p:116,x:89,y:865,w:631,h:26},
{t:"Ils s'aiment ! Par quel charme ont-ils trompé mes yeux ?",p:116,x:89,y:897,w:620,h:26},
{t:"Comment se sont-ils vus ? Depuis quand ? Dans quels lieux ?",p:116,x:89,y:929,w:669,h:26},
{t:"Tu le savais. Pourquoi me laissais-tu séduire ?",p:116,x:89,y:960,w:503,h:26},
{t:"De leur furtive ardeur ne pouvais-tu m'instruire ?",p:116,x:89,y:992,w:536,h:26},
{t:"Les a-t-on vus souvent se parler, se chercher ?",p:116,x:89,y:1024,w:514,h:26},
{t:"Dans le fond des forêts allaient-ils se cacher ?",p:116,x:89,y:1055,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Hélas ! ils se voyaient avec pleine licence.",p:116,x:89,y:1087,w:457,h:26},
{t:"Le ciel de leurs soupirs approuvait l'innocence ;",p:116,x:89,y:1119,w:517,h:26},
{t:"Ils suivaient sans remords leur penchant amoureux ;",p:116,x:89,y:1150,w:577,h:26},
{t:"1240. Tous les jours se levaient clairs et sereins pour eux.",p:116,x:89,y:1182,w:634,h:26},
{t:"Et moi, triste rebut de la nature entière,",p:116,x:89,y:1214,w:437,h:26},
{t:"Je me cachais au jour, je fuyais la lumière.",p:116,x:89,y:1245,w:467,h:26},
{t:"114",p:117,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:117,x:94,y:84,w:104,h:26},
{t:"I have a rival who has won the prize.",p:117,x:94,y:135,w:404,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:117,x:94,y:187,w:93,h:26},
{t:"What?",p:117,x:94,y:239,w:68,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:117,x:94,y:290,w:104,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus can love:  that crude",p:117,x:94,y:342,w:349,h:26},
{t:"1220. wild creature none could tame, has been subdued.",p:117,x:94,y:374,w:620,h:26},
{t:"One whom respect and tears have never stayed,",p:117,x:94,y:405,w:529,h:26},
{t:"whom I could hardly speak to unafraid,",p:117,x:94,y:437,w:428,h:26},
{t:"has now submitted to another’s part:",p:117,x:94,y:469,w:405,h:26},
{t:"Aricia’s the pathway to his heart.",p:117,x:94,y:500,w:359,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:117,x:94,y:552,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Aricia?",p:117,x:94,y:604,w:71,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:117,x:94,y:655,w:104,h:26},
{t:"Such pain I have not felt before.",p:117,x:94,y:707,w:353,h:26},
{t:"What new torments have I kept in store?",p:117,x:94,y:739,w:446,h:26},
{t:"All I suffered and all ecstasies",p:117,x:94,y:770,w:325,h:26},
{t:"unending horrors without remedies",p:117,x:94,y:802,w:382,h:26},
{t:"of being spurned but never knowing how",p:117,x:94,y:834,w:445,h:26},
{t:"1230. were foretastes merely of this insult now.",p:117,x:94,y:865,w:521,h:26},
{t:"They love each other, by what charmed disgrace",p:117,x:94,y:897,w:529,h:26},
{t:"have they evaded me and when, what place?",p:117,x:94,y:929,w:491,h:26},
{t:"You must have known this, but you did not say",p:117,x:94,y:960,w:513,h:26},
{t:"what times they whiled their furtive love away,",p:117,x:94,y:992,w:511,h:26},
{t:"or how they sought each other, what they did",p:117,x:94,y:1024,w:497,h:26},
{t:"as often in the forest depths they hid.",p:117,x:94,y:1055,w:412,h:26},
{t:"A love that took its licence in their sight.",p:117,x:94,y:1087,w:441,h:26},
{t:"When sky approved their innocent delight,",p:117,x:94,y:1119,w:461,h:26},
{t:"they need but follow where their impulse led.",p:117,x:94,y:1150,w:493,h:26},
{t:"1240. Each day serene and clear for them, instead",p:117,x:94,y:1182,w:550,h:26},
{t:"of my rejection by the living day;",p:117,x:94,y:1214,w:363,h:26},
{t:"my fleeing daylight have to steal away",p:117,x:94,y:1245,w:419,h:26},
{t:"115",p:118,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"La mort est le seul Dieu que j'osais implorer.",p:118,x:89,y:84,w:488,h:26},
{t:"J'attendais le moment où j'allais expirer ;",p:118,x:89,y:115,w:451,h:26},
{t:"Me nourrissant de fiel, de larmes abreuvée,",p:118,x:89,y:147,w:473,h:26},
{t:"Encor dans mon malheur de trop près observée,",p:118,x:89,y:179,w:526,h:26},
{t:"Je n'osais dans mes pleurs me noyer à loisir ;",p:118,x:89,y:210,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Je goûtais en tremblant ce funeste plaisir,",p:118,x:89,y:242,w:457,h:26},
{t:"Et sous un front serein déguisant mes alarmes,",p:118,x:89,y:274,w:514,h:26},
{t:"1250. Il fallait bien souvent me priver de mes larmes.",p:118,x:89,y:305,w:587,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:118,x:89,y:357,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Quel fruit recevront-ils de leurs vaines amours ?",p:118,x:89,y:409,w:526,h:26},
{t:"Ils ne se verront plus.",p:118,x:89,y:440,w:238,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:118,x:89,y:492,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Ils s'aimeront toujours.",p:118,x:89,y:544,w:253,h:26},
{t:"Au moment que je parle, ah ! mortelle pensée !",p:118,x:89,y:575,w:520,h:26},
{t:"Ils bravent la fureur d'une amante insensée.",p:118,x:89,y:607,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Malgré ce même exil qui va les écarter,",p:118,x:89,y:639,w:429,h:26},
{t:"Ils font mille serments de ne se point quitter.",p:118,x:89,y:670,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Non, je ne puis souffrir un bonheur qui m'outrage,",p:118,x:89,y:702,w:549,h:26},
{t:"OEnone. Prends pitié de ma jalouse rage.",p:118,x:89,y:734,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Il faut perdre Aricie. Il faut de mon époux",p:118,x:89,y:765,w:455,h:26},
{t:"1260. Contre un sang odieux réveiller les courroux.",p:118,x:89,y:797,w:560,h:26},
{t:"Qu'il ne se borne pas à des peines légères :",p:118,x:89,y:829,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Le crime de la soeur passe celui des frères.",p:118,x:89,y:860,w:471,h:26},
{t:"Dans mes jaloux transports je le veux implorer.",p:118,x:89,y:892,w:519,h:26},
{t:"Que fais-je ? Où ma raison va-t-elle s'égarer ?",p:118,x:89,y:924,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Moi jalouse ! Et Thésée est celui que j'implore !",p:118,x:89,y:955,w:515,h:26},
{t:"Mon époux est vivant, et moi je brûle encore !",p:118,x:89,y:987,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Pour qui ? Quel est le coeur où prétendent mes voeux ?",p:118,x:89,y:1019,w:606,h:26},
{t:"Chaque mot sur mon front fait dresser mes cheveux.",p:118,x:89,y:1050,w:577,h:26},
{t:"Mes crimes désormais ont comblé la mesure.",p:118,x:89,y:1082,w:491,h:26},
{t:"1270. Je respire à la fois l'inceste et l'imposture.",p:118,x:89,y:1114,w:528,h:26},
{t:"Mes homicides mains, promptes à me venger,",p:118,x:89,y:1145,w:502,h:26},
{t:"Dans le sang innocent brûlent de se plonger.",p:118,x:89,y:1177,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Misérable ! et je vis ? et je soutiens la vue",p:118,x:89,y:1209,w:461,h:26},
{t:"De ce sacré Soleil dont je suis descendue ?",p:118,x:89,y:1240,w:468,h:26},
{t:"116",p:119,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"to death alone, the god that I’d implore.",p:119,x:94,y:84,w:439,h:26},
{t:"To wait for darkness and to be no more,",p:119,x:94,y:115,w:438,h:26},
{t:"to drink of tears and take but gall for food.",p:119,x:94,y:147,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Observed, I could not let my grief be viewed,",p:119,x:94,y:179,w:494,h:26},
{t:"or dared at leisure even tears to flow",p:119,x:94,y:210,w:403,h:26},
{t:"but taste in secret what I didn’t show.",p:119,x:94,y:242,w:414,h:26},
{t:"Serene my forehead, my unclouded look",p:119,x:94,y:274,w:441,h:26},
{t:"1250. on which the mask of sorrow never took.",p:119,x:94,y:305,w:516,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:119,x:94,y:357,w:93,h:26},
{t:"A fruitless love for them when time must sever",p:119,x:94,y:409,w:511,h:26},
{t:"more hopes of meeting.",p:119,x:94,y:440,w:260,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:119,x:94,y:492,w:104,h:26},
{t:"They will love forever.",p:119,x:94,y:544,w:241,h:26},
{t:"And as I speak, ah, deadly thought,",p:119,x:94,y:575,w:390,h:26},
{t:"it is the fury in my love they thwart.",p:119,x:94,y:607,w:394,h:26},
{t:"What can exile do to wrench apart",p:119,x:94,y:639,w:373,h:26},
{t:"a thousand vows that join them at the heart?",p:119,x:94,y:670,w:492,h:26},
{t:"No, never can their happiness assuage:",p:119,x:94,y:702,w:430,h:26},
{t:"Oenone, pity me my violent rage.",p:119,x:94,y:734,w:367,h:26},
{t:"Aricia must die. I'll have my spouse",p:119,x:94,y:765,w:389,h:26},
{t:"1260. be stirred to wrath against that odious house.",p:119,x:94,y:797,w:568,h:26},
{t:"There'll be no trivial penalties for her",p:119,x:94,y:829,w:402,h:26},
{t:"who is more flagrant than her brothers were.",p:119,x:94,y:860,w:491,h:26},
{t:"Provoked, my jealousy will have her pay —",p:119,x:94,y:892,w:470,h:26},
{t:"for what, and wherefore when my reasons stray",p:119,x:94,y:924,w:523,h:26},
{t:"to ask of Theseus, my husband? — burn",p:119,x:94,y:955,w:438,h:26},
{t:"for things unlawful, and the passions turn",p:119,x:94,y:987,w:453,h:26},
{t:"from husband living to the son instead?",p:119,x:94,y:1019,w:432,h:26},
{t:"How hair in horror bristles on the head!",p:119,x:94,y:1050,w:431,h:26},
{t:"My measure of transgressions is complete,",p:119,x:94,y:1082,w:465,h:26},
{t:"1270. I reek with foulest incest and deceit.",p:119,x:94,y:1114,w:467,h:26},
{t:" My hands propel me and would not repent",p:119,x:94,y:1145,w:469,h:26},
{t:"if blood they bathed in cried out innocent!",p:119,x:94,y:1177,w:457,h:26},
{t:"How can I venture in the sun's bright rays",p:119,x:94,y:1209,w:458,h:26},
{t:"who is my ancestor, and blesses days?",p:119,x:94,y:1240,w:422,h:26},
{t:"117",p:120,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"J'ai pour aïeul le père et le maître des Dieux ;",p:120,x:89,y:84,w:498,h:26},
{t:"Le ciel, tout l'univers est plein de mes aïeux.",p:120,x:89,y:115,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Où me cacher ? Fuyons dans la nuit infernale.",p:120,x:89,y:147,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Mais que dis-je ? Mon père y tient l'urne fatale ;",p:120,x:89,y:179,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Le Sort, dit-on, l'a mise en ses sévères mains :",p:120,x:89,y:210,w:515,h:26},
{t:"1280. Minos juge aux enfers tous les pâles humains.",p:120,x:89,y:242,w:572,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! combien frémira son ombre épouvantée,",p:120,x:89,y:274,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Lorsqu'il verra sa fille à ses yeux présentée,",p:120,x:89,y:305,w:479,h:26},
{t:"Contrainte d'avouer tant de forfaits divers,",p:120,x:89,y:337,w:464,h:26},
{t:"Et des crimes peut-être inconnus aux enfers !",p:120,x:89,y:369,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Que diras-tu, mon père, à ce spectacle horrible ?",p:120,x:89,y:400,w:533,h:26},
{t:"Je crois voir de ta main tomber l'urne terrible,",p:120,x:89,y:432,w:502,h:26},
{t:"Je crois te voir, cherchant un supplice nouveau,",p:120,x:89,y:464,w:519,h:26},
{t:"Toi-même de ton sang devenir le bourreau.",p:120,x:89,y:495,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Pardonne. Un Dieu cruel a perdu ta famille :",p:120,x:89,y:527,w:481,h:26},
{t:"1290. Reconnais sa vengeance aux fureurs de ta fille.",p:120,x:89,y:559,w:583,h:26},
{t:"Hélas ! du crime affreux dont la honte me suit",p:120,x:89,y:590,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Jamais mon triste coeur n'a recueilli le fruit.",p:120,x:89,y:622,w:478,h:26},
{t:"Jusqu'au dernier soupir, de malheurs poursuivie,",p:120,x:89,y:654,w:530,h:26},
{t:"Je rends dans les tourments une pénible vie.",p:120,x:89,y:685,w:487,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:120,x:89,y:737,w:93,h:26},
{t:"Hé ! repoussez, Madame, une injuste terreur.",p:120,x:89,y:789,w:496,h:26},
{t:"Regardez d'un autre oeil une excusable erreur.",p:120,x:89,y:820,w:511,h:26},
{t:"Vous aimez. On ne peut vaincre sa destinée.",p:120,x:89,y:852,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Par un charme fatal vous fûtes entraînée.",p:120,x:89,y:884,w:450,h:26},
{t:"Est-ce donc un prodige inouï parmi nous ?",p:120,x:89,y:915,w:459,h:26},
{t:"1300. L'amour n'a-t-il encor triomphé que de vous ?",p:120,x:89,y:947,w:571,h:26},
{t:"La faiblesse aux humains n'est que trop naturelle.",p:120,x:89,y:979,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Mortelle, subissez le sort d'une mortelle.",p:120,x:89,y:1010,w:441,h:26},
{t:"Vous vous plaignez d'un joug imposé dès longtemps :",p:120,x:89,y:1042,w:587,h:26},
{t:"Les Dieux même, les Dieux, de l'Olympe habitants,",p:120,x:89,y:1074,w:557,h:26},
{t:"Qui d'un bruit si terrible épouvantent les crimes,",p:120,x:89,y:1105,w:528,h:26},
{t:"Ont brûlé quelquefois de feux illégitimes.",p:120,x:89,y:1137,w:447,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:120,x:89,y:1189,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Qu'entends-je ! Quels conseils ose-t-on me donner ?",p:120,x:89,y:1240,w:575,h:26},
{t:"Ainsi donc jusqu'au bout tu veux m'empoisonner.",p:120,x:89,y:1272,w:539,h:26},
{t:"118",p:121,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"He is the foremost, gave my father birth",p:121,x:94,y:84,w:440,h:26},
{t:"and all my family now on the earth.",p:121,x:94,y:115,w:389,h:26},
{t:"What night of sanctuary can I now turn",p:121,x:94,y:147,w:428,h:26},
{t:"to? Minos, my dread father, holds the urn,",p:121,x:94,y:179,w:462,h:26},
{t:"that destiny in which their lots are cast,",p:121,x:94,y:210,w:433,h:26},
{t:"1280. those poor, pale, trembling sinners, first to last?",p:121,x:94,y:242,w:597,h:26},
{t:"How shuddering and fearful will his presence stare",p:121,x:94,y:274,w:549,h:26},
{t:"at that dark shadow of his daughter there,",p:121,x:94,y:305,w:462,h:26},
{t:"and know how heinously her crimes exceed",p:121,x:94,y:337,w:473,h:26},
{t:"what hell will groan at and must heed!",p:121,x:94,y:369,w:419,h:26},
{t:"For what, my father, do these horrors yearn",p:121,x:94,y:400,w:481,h:26},
{t:"that now I see you drop that fearful urn?",p:121,x:94,y:432,w:445,h:26},
{t:"What further punishments can you devise",p:121,x:94,y:464,w:454,h:26},
{t:"than butchery by which your bloodline dies?",p:121,x:94,y:495,w:479,h:26},
{t:"Forgive me that I let a god in wild",p:121,x:94,y:527,w:370,h:26},
{t:"1290. reprisal sow her fury through the child.",p:121,x:94,y:559,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Never the once to what it sought for came",p:121,x:94,y:590,w:460,h:26},
{t:"this heart, but sadness only, and to shame.",p:121,x:94,y:622,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra in sighs, with which her path was rife,",p:121,x:94,y:654,w:508,h:26},
{t:"in agonies gives back a painful life.",p:121,x:94,y:685,w:381,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:121,x:94,y:737,w:93,h:26},
{t:"That’s enough of terrors now from you,",p:121,x:94,y:789,w:428,h:26},
{t:"and of your mishaps take a kindlier view.",p:121,x:94,y:820,w:449,h:26},
{t:"You love. One cannot change that destiny",p:121,x:94,y:852,w:454,h:26},
{t:"nor from its fatal charms could you wrest free,",p:121,x:94,y:884,w:507,h:26},
{t:"but where’s the prodigy that no one saw,",p:121,x:94,y:915,w:448,h:26},
{t:"1300. love’s triumph over you as none before?",p:121,x:94,y:947,w:509,h:26},
{t:"Gross frailty’s our nature, what we got",p:121,x:94,y:979,w:420,h:26},
{t:"with sad mortality and still our lot.",p:121,x:94,y:1010,w:375,h:26},
{t:"You’d cry against our long-term circumstance",p:121,x:94,y:1042,w:496,h:26},
{t:"when even gods, the Olympian inhabitants",p:121,x:94,y:1074,w:465,h:26},
{t:"who terrorize us often for our crimes",p:121,x:94,y:1105,w:400,h:26},
{t:"have been a good deal guiltier at times.",p:121,x:94,y:1137,w:434,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:121,x:94,y:1189,w:104,h:26},
{t:"You dare to offer this cajolery,",p:121,x:94,y:1240,w:331,h:26},
{t:"who to the end would try to poison me?",p:121,x:94,y:1272,w:434,h:26},
{t:"119",p:122,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Malheureuse ! Voilà comme tu m'as perdue.",p:122,x:89,y:84,w:479,h:26},
{t:"1310. Au jour que je fuyais c'est toi qui m'as rendue.",p:122,x:89,y:115,w:580,h:26},
{t:"Tes prières m'ont fait oublier mon devoir.",p:122,x:89,y:147,w:452,h:26},
{t:"J'évitais Hippolyte, et tu me l'as fait voir.",p:122,x:89,y:179,w:446,h:26},
{t:"De quoi te chargeais-tu ? Pourquoi ta bouche impie",p:122,x:89,y:210,w:558,h:26},
{t:"A-t-elle, en l'accusant, osé noircir sa vie ?",p:122,x:89,y:242,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Il en mourra peut-être, et d'un père insensé",p:122,x:89,y:274,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Le sacrilège voeu peut-être est exaucé.",p:122,x:89,y:305,w:429,h:26},
{t:"Je ne t'écoute plus. Va-t-en, monstre exécrable,",p:122,x:89,y:337,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Va, laisse-moi le soin de mon sort déplorable.",p:122,x:89,y:369,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Puisse le juste ciel dignement te payer ;",p:122,x:89,y:400,w:438,h:26},
{t:"1320. Et puisse ton supplice à jamais effrayer",p:122,x:89,y:432,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Tous ceux qui, comme toi, par de lâches adresses,",p:122,x:89,y:464,w:551,h:26},
{t:"Des princes malheureux nourrissent les faiblesses,",p:122,x:89,y:495,w:550,h:26},
{t:"Les poussent au penchant où leur coeur est enclin,",p:122,x:89,y:527,w:552,h:26},
{t:"Et leur osent du crime aplanir le chemin ;",p:122,x:89,y:559,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Détestables flatteurs, présent le plus funeste",p:122,x:89,y:590,w:488,h:26},
{t:"Que puisse faire aux rois la colère céleste !",p:122,x:89,y:622,w:468,h:26},
{t:"OENONE, seule.",p:122,x:89,y:674,w:173,h:26},
{t:"Ah, Dieux ! pour la servir j'ai tout fait, tout quitté ;",p:122,x:89,y:725,w:555,h:26},
{t:"Et j'en reçois ce prix ? Je l'ai bien mérité.",p:122,x:89,y:757,w:449,h:26},
{t:"120",p:123,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Wretch! You put me on this  ruinous track",p:123,x:94,y:84,w:456,h:26},
{t:"1310.  and when I’d flee from life you called me back.",p:123,x:94,y:115,w:589,h:26},
{t:"At your entreaties I forgot my cares",p:123,x:94,y:147,w:391,h:26},
{t:"and to Hippolytus I made my prayers.",p:123,x:94,y:179,w:415,h:26},
{t:"With what result? Your wretched mouth has said",p:123,x:94,y:210,w:527,h:26},
{t:"enough of calumnies to strike him dead.",p:123,x:94,y:242,w:438,h:26},
{t:"He may well die, his father making now",p:123,x:94,y:274,w:431,h:26},
{t:"to gods a mad and sacrilegious vow.",p:123,x:94,y:305,w:397,h:26},
{t:"Enough. I’ll hear no more of one I hate.",p:123,x:94,y:337,w:434,h:26},
{t:"Go, leave me to my wretched fate.",p:123,x:94,y:369,w:379,h:26},
{t:"I ask that justice brings its fit reward",p:123,x:94,y:400,w:403,h:26},
{t:"1320. and may your punishment that fear accord",p:123,x:94,y:432,w:535,h:26},
{t:"to such as you who ply their false address",p:123,x:94,y:464,w:457,h:26},
{t:"to princes’ all too willing weaknesses.",p:123,x:94,y:495,w:408,h:26},
{t:"To ease them down a path their sin inclines",p:123,x:94,y:527,w:473,h:26},
{t:"and dare to aid their crimes with good designs.",p:123,x:94,y:559,w:513,h:26},
{t:"Vile flatterers, the most disastrous things",p:123,x:94,y:590,w:449,h:26},
{t:"that vengeful heaven can confer on kings.",p:123,x:94,y:622,w:457,h:26},
{t:"OENONE",p:123,x:94,y:674,w:93,h:26},
{t:"The gods will know how fully I have served",p:123,x:94,y:725,w:469,h:26},
{t:"for this reward, and so is well deserved.",p:123,x:94,y:757,w:436,h:26},
{t:"121",p:124,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"ACTE CINQUIEME",p:124,x:89,y:121,w:261,h:37},
{t:"Scène 1",p:124,x:89,y:214,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Hyppolyte, Aricie",p:124,x:89,y:267,w:185,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:124,x:89,y:330,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Quoi ! vous pouvez vous taire en ce péril extrême ?",p:124,x:89,y:382,w:563,h:26},
{t:"1330. Vous laissez dans l'erreur un père qui vous aime ?",p:124,x:89,y:414,w:616,h:26},
{t:"Cruel, si de mes pleurs méprisant le pouvoir,",p:124,x:89,y:445,w:490,h:26},
{t:"Vous consentez sans peine à ne plus me revoir,",p:124,x:89,y:477,w:517,h:26},
{t:"Partez, séparez-vous de la triste Aricie.",p:124,x:89,y:509,w:427,h:26},
{t:"Mais du moins en partant assurez votre vie.",p:124,x:89,y:540,w:477,h:26},
{t:"Défendez votre honneur d'un reproche honteux,",p:124,x:89,y:572,w:523,h:26},
{t:"Et forcez votre père à révoquer ses voeux.",p:124,x:89,y:604,w:464,h:26},
{t:"Il en est temps encor. Pourquoi, par quel caprice,",p:124,x:89,y:635,w:540,h:26},
{t:"Laissez-vous le champ libre à votre accusatrice ?",p:124,x:89,y:667,w:531,h:26},
{t:"Eclaircissez Thésée.",p:124,x:89,y:699,w:215,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:124,x:89,y:750,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Hé ! que n'ai-je point dit ?",p:124,x:89,y:802,w:286,h:26},
{t:"1340. Ai-je dû mettre au jour l'opprobre de son lit ?",p:124,x:89,y:834,w:566,h:26},
{t:"Devais-je, en lui faisant un récit trop sincère,",p:124,x:89,y:865,w:493,h:26},
{t:"D'une indigne rougeur couvrir le front d'un père ?",p:124,x:89,y:897,w:541,h:26},
{t:"Vous seule avez percé ce mystère odieux.",p:124,x:89,y:929,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Mon coeur pour s'épancher n'a que vous et les Dieux.",p:124,x:89,y:960,w:584,h:26},
{t:"Je n'ai pu vous cacher, jugez si je vous aime,",p:124,x:89,y:992,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Tout ce que je voulais me cacher à moi-même.",p:124,x:89,y:1024,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Mais songez sous quel sceau je vous l'ai révélé.",p:124,x:89,y:1055,w:517,h:26},
{t:"Oubliez, s'il se peut, que je vous ai parlé,",p:124,x:89,y:1087,w:451,h:26},
{t:"Madame. Et que jamais une bouche si pure",p:124,x:89,y:1119,w:470,h:26},
{t:"1350. Ne s'ouvre pour conter cette horrible aventure.",p:124,x:89,y:1150,w:582,h:26},
{t:"Sur l'équité des Dieux osons nous confier :",p:124,x:89,y:1182,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Ils ont trop d'intérêt à me justifier ;",p:124,x:89,y:1214,w:389,h:26},
{t:"Et Phèdre, tôt ou tard de son crime punie,",p:124,x:89,y:1245,w:459,h:26},
{t:"N'en saurait éviter la juste ignominie.",p:124,x:89,y:1277,w:408,h:26},
{t:"122",p:125,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"ACT FIVE",p:125,x:94,y:121,w:131,h:37},
{t:"Scene 1",p:125,x:94,y:214,w:97,h:30},
{t:"Hippolytus, Aricia",p:125,x:94,y:267,w:190,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:125,x:94,y:330,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Why would you keep your counsel at all cost",p:125,x:94,y:382,w:484,h:26},
{t:"1330. and stay in peril from a father lost",p:125,x:94,y:414,w:442,h:26},
{t:"to wild imaginings? The tears you see",p:125,x:94,y:445,w:410,h:26},
{t:"should show your cruelty in leaving me.",p:125,x:94,y:477,w:434,h:26},
{t:"But give Aricia a life alone,",p:125,x:94,y:509,w:291,h:26},
{t:"you still should guard the safety of your own.",p:125,x:94,y:540,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Defend your honour from this shameful state",p:125,x:94,y:572,w:491,h:26},
{t:"and get your loving father to abate",p:125,x:94,y:604,w:381,h:26},
{t:"his curse. There still is time. Why make her free",p:125,x:94,y:635,w:523,h:26},
{t:"to lie and spread this wilful calumny?",p:125,x:94,y:667,w:404,h:26},
{t:"Tell Theseus all.",p:125,x:94,y:699,w:174,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:125,x:94,y:750,w:138,h:26},
{t:"How little could be said",p:125,x:94,y:802,w:252,h:26},
{t:"1340. without opprobrium on that marriage bed.",p:125,x:94,y:834,w:530,h:26},
{t:"Too frank a narrative could only bring",p:125,x:94,y:865,w:410,h:26},
{t:"a shame to daub the forehead of a king.",p:125,x:94,y:897,w:438,h:26},
{t:"You alone have pierced the secret through,",p:125,x:94,y:929,w:469,h:26},
{t:"as I have bared my heart to gods and you.",p:125,x:94,y:960,w:467,h:26},
{t:"I could not keep it from you had I tried",p:125,x:94,y:992,w:426,h:26},
{t:"however much it’s to myself denied.",p:125,x:94,y:1024,w:394,h:26},
{t:"But all I tell you’s under such a ban",p:125,x:94,y:1055,w:387,h:26},
{t:"you’ll please forget it, Madam, if you can.",p:125,x:94,y:1087,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Never let so pure a mouth exhale",p:125,x:94,y:1119,w:364,h:26},
{t:"1350. the obscene horrors of this fearful tale.",p:125,x:94,y:1150,w:496,h:26},
{t:"We hope the gods do justice to our state,",p:125,x:94,y:1182,w:451,h:26},
{t:"will hear our honesty, exonerate",p:125,x:94,y:1214,w:352,h:26},
{t:"our cause, and Phaedra soon or late be brought",p:125,x:94,y:1245,w:519,h:26},
{t:"to meet such retribution as she ought.",p:125,x:94,y:1277,w:418,h:26},
{t:"123",p:126,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"C'est l'unique respect que j'exige de vous.",p:126,x:89,y:84,w:460,h:26},
{t:"Je permets tout le reste à mon libre courroux.",p:126,x:89,y:115,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Sortez de l'sclavage où vous êtes réduite.",p:126,x:89,y:147,w:454,h:26},
{t:"Osez me suivre. Osez accompagner ma fuite.",p:126,x:89,y:179,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Arrachez-vous d'un lieu funeste et profané,",p:126,x:89,y:210,w:471,h:26},
{t:"1360. Où la vertu respire un air empoisonné ;",p:126,x:89,y:242,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Profitez, pour cacher votre prompte retraite,",p:126,x:89,y:274,w:484,h:26},
{t:"De la confusion que ma disgrâce y jette.",p:126,x:89,y:305,w:440,h:26},
{t:"Je vous puis de la fuite assurer les moyens ;",p:126,x:89,y:337,w:485,h:26},
{t:"Vous n'avez jusqu'ici de gardes que les miens ;",p:126,x:89,y:369,w:515,h:26},
{t:"De puissants défenseurs prendront notre querelle ;",p:126,x:89,y:400,w:556,h:26},
{t:"Argos nous tend les bras, et Sparte nous appelle.",p:126,x:89,y:432,w:537,h:26},
{t:"A nos amis communs portons nos justes cris ;",p:126,x:89,y:464,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Ne souffrons pas que Phèdre, assemblant nos débris,",p:126,x:89,y:495,w:578,h:26},
{t:"Du trône paternel nous chasse l'un et l'autre,",p:126,x:89,y:527,w:491,h:26},
{t:"1370. Et promette à son fils ma dépouille et la vôtre.",p:126,x:89,y:559,w:577,h:26},
{t:"L'occasion est belle, il la faut embrasser.",p:126,x:89,y:590,w:442,h:26},
{t:"Quelle peur vous retient ? Vous semblez balancer ?",p:126,x:89,y:622,w:557,h:26},
{t:"Votre seul intérêt m'inspire cette audace.",p:126,x:89,y:654,w:450,h:26},
{t:"Quand je suis tout de feu, d'où vous vient cette glace ?",p:126,x:89,y:685,w:602,h:26},
{t:"Sur les pas d'un banni craignez-vous de marcher ?",p:126,x:89,y:717,w:552,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:126,x:89,y:769,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Hélas ! qu'un tel exil, Seigneur, me serait cher !",p:126,x:89,y:820,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Dans quels ravissements, à votre sort liée,",p:126,x:89,y:852,w:465,h:26},
{t:"Du reste des mortels je vivrais oubliée !",p:126,x:89,y:884,w:435,h:26},
{t:"Mais n'étant point liés par un lien si doux,",p:126,x:89,y:915,w:454,h:26},
{t:"1380. Me puis avec honneur dérober avec vous ?",p:126,x:89,y:947,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Je sais que sans blesser l'honneur le plus sévère,",p:126,x:89,y:979,w:535,h:26},
{t:"Je me puis affranchir des mains de votre père :",p:126,x:89,y:1010,w:516,h:26},
{t:"Ce n'est point m'arracher du sein de mes parents,",p:126,x:89,y:1042,w:545,h:26},
{t:"Et la fuite est permise à qui fuit ses tyrans.",p:126,x:89,y:1074,w:470,h:26},
{t:"Mais vous m'aimez, Seigneur ; et ma gloire; alarmée...",p:126,x:89,y:1105,w:602,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTE",p:126,x:89,y:1157,w:121,h:26},
{t:"Non, non, j'ai trop de soin de votre renommée.",p:126,x:89,y:1209,w:514,h:26},
{t:"Un plus noble dessein m'amène devant vous :",p:126,x:89,y:1240,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Fuyez vos ennemis, et suivez votre époux.",p:126,x:89,y:1272,w:464,h:26},
{t:"124",p:127,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"The sole request I’d make of you, although",p:127,x:94,y:84,w:469,h:26},
{t:"my anger all ways otherwise may go,",p:127,x:94,y:115,w:406,h:26},
{t:"is quit your slavish bondage here and grace",p:127,x:94,y:147,w:475,h:26},
{t:"my company. Take courage. Leave a place",p:127,x:94,y:179,w:464,h:26},
{t:"that spreads its heavy shadows everywhere",p:127,x:94,y:210,w:476,h:26},
{t:"1360. that even virtue breathes polluted air.",p:127,x:94,y:242,w:483,h:26},
{t:"Come now and let your flight be blotted out",p:127,x:94,y:274,w:476,h:26},
{t:"by turmoil my disgrace has brought about.",p:127,x:94,y:305,w:466,h:26},
{t:"I give the means of going when you see",p:127,x:94,y:337,w:436,h:26},
{t:"the guards about you all belong to me.",p:127,x:94,y:369,w:424,h:26},
{t:"We have support in this of powerful friends:",p:127,x:94,y:400,w:478,h:26},
{t:"Argos holds her hand out, Sparta sends.",p:127,x:94,y:432,w:440,h:26},
{t:"Let’s tell our grievances to them, forestall",p:127,x:94,y:464,w:454,h:26},
{t:"a Phaedra profiting from such a fall.",p:127,x:94,y:495,w:391,h:26},
{t:"She drives us from our thrones while justice waits",p:127,x:94,y:527,w:545,h:26},
{t:"1370. and has her son ensconced in our estates.",p:127,x:94,y:559,w:529,h:26},
{t:"Now‘s our chance. Embrace what will not wait.",p:127,x:94,y:590,w:507,h:26},
{t:"Why would you simply stall and hesitate?",p:127,x:94,y:622,w:450,h:26},
{t:"It is your interests that I’d inspire,",p:127,x:94,y:654,w:375,h:26},
{t:"but you are cold to this as I’m on fire.",p:127,x:94,y:685,w:413,h:26},
{t:"Are hard the steps of banishment you’d take?",p:127,x:94,y:717,w:496,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:127,x:94,y:769,w:77,h:26},
{t:"A banishment with you, my lord, would make",p:127,x:94,y:820,w:495,h:26},
{t:"the days a ravishment, a happy lot",p:127,x:94,y:852,w:380,h:26},
{t:"for one the remnant of the world forgot.",p:127,x:94,y:884,w:437,h:26},
{t:"But think how much my honour stands despised",p:127,x:94,y:915,w:524,h:26},
{t:"1380. if no true hymen’s bond is authorized.",p:127,x:94,y:947,w:484,h:26},
{t:"I have the right, indeed good cause to live",p:127,x:94,y:979,w:462,h:26},
{t:"beyond what tutelage the king may give.",p:127,x:94,y:1010,w:446,h:26},
{t:"No love of parents holds me back, and flight",p:127,x:94,y:1042,w:482,h:26},
{t:"from all such tyranny is always right,",p:127,x:94,y:1074,w:403,h:26},
{t:"but though you love me, still there is my name.",p:127,x:94,y:1105,w:520,h:26},
{t:"HIPPOLYTUS",p:127,x:94,y:1157,w:138,h:26},
{t:"Indeed I’m far too conscious of the same",p:127,x:94,y:1209,w:448,h:26},
{t:"to have a less than noble end in view:",p:127,x:94,y:1240,w:414,h:26},
{t:"We’ll flee our enemies; a wife in you",p:127,x:94,y:1272,w:396,h:26},
{t:"125",p:128,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Libres dans nos malheurs, puisque le ciel l'ordonne,",p:128,x:89,y:84,w:563,h:26},
{t:"1390. Le don de notre foi ne dépend de personne.",p:128,x:89,y:115,w:547,h:26},
{t:"L'hymen n'est point toujours entouré de flambeaux.",p:128,x:89,y:147,w:565,h:26},
{t:"Aux portes de Trézène, et parmi ces tombeaux,",p:128,x:89,y:179,w:518,h:26},
{t:"Des princes de ma race antiques sépultures,",p:128,x:89,y:210,w:482,h:26},
{t:"Est un temple sacré formidable aux parjures.",p:128,x:89,y:242,w:491,h:26},
{t:"C'est là que les mortels n'osent jurer en vain :",p:128,x:89,y:274,w:506,h:26},
{t:"Le perfide y reçoit un châtiment soudain ;",p:128,x:89,y:305,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Et craignant d'y trouver la mort inévitable,",p:128,x:89,y:337,w:464,h:26},
{t:"Le mensonge n'a point de frein plus redoutable.",p:128,x:89,y:369,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Là, si vous m'en croyez, d'un amour éternel",p:128,x:89,y:400,w:478,h:26},
{t:"1400. Nous irons confirmer le serment solennel.",p:128,x:89,y:432,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Nous prendrons à témoin le Dieu qu'on y révère ;",p:128,x:89,y:464,w:540,h:26},
{t:"Nous le prîrons tous deux de nous servir de père.",p:128,x:89,y:495,w:538,h:26},
{t:"Des Dieux les plus sacrés j'attesterai le nom.",p:128,x:89,y:527,w:489,h:26},
{t:"Et la chaste Diane, et l'auguste Junon,",p:128,x:89,y:559,w:417,h:26},
{t:"Et tous les dieux enfin, témoins de mes tendresses,",p:128,x:89,y:590,w:562,h:26},
{t:"Garantiront la foi de mes saintes promesses.",p:128,x:89,y:622,w:487,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:128,x:89,y:674,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Le Roi vient. Fuyez, Prince, et partez promptement.",p:128,x:89,y:725,w:563,h:26},
{t:"Pour cacher mon départ je demeure un moment.",p:128,x:89,y:757,w:533,h:26},
{t:"Allez, et laissez-moi quelque fidèle guide,",p:128,x:89,y:789,w:451,h:26},
{t:"1410. Qui conduise vers vous ma démarche timide.",p:128,x:89,y:820,w:561,h:26},
{t:"Scène 2",p:128,x:89,y:924,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Thésée, Aricie, Ismene",p:128,x:89,y:975,w:248,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:128,x:89,y:1059,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Dieux, éclairez mon trouble, et daignez à mes yeux",p:128,x:89,y:1110,w:561,h:26},
{t:"Montrer la vérité, que je cherche en ces lieux.",p:128,x:89,y:1142,w:500,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:128,x:89,y:1194,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Songe à tout, chère Ismène, et sois prête à la fuite.",p:128,x:89,y:1245,w:564,h:26},
{t:"126",p:129,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"is what I’d seek, and, under widespread skies",p:129,x:94,y:84,w:497,h:26},
{t:"1390. that need no other’s name to recognize,",p:129,x:94,y:115,w:506,h:26},
{t:"a marriage blessed without the taper’s light.",p:129,x:94,y:147,w:482,h:26},
{t:"Near Troezen’s harbour, amid a burial site",p:129,x:94,y:179,w:459,h:26},
{t:"are princes of our line, great sepulchres",p:129,x:94,y:210,w:433,h:26},
{t:"and shrine prohibited to perjurers.",p:129,x:94,y:242,w:375,h:26},
{t:"No one within its bounds forswears intent",p:129,x:94,y:274,w:452,h:26},
{t:"on pain of sure and sudden punishment:",p:129,x:94,y:305,w:442,h:26},
{t:"his death’s inevitable, there is no let",p:129,x:94,y:337,w:396,h:26},
{t:"for falsehood from this all too present threat.",p:129,x:94,y:369,w:492,h:26},
{t:"But there believing, with our love’s consent",p:129,x:94,y:400,w:472,h:26},
{t:"1400. we will enact our solemn sacrament.",p:129,x:94,y:432,w:468,h:26},
{t:"The god that haunts will witness for us both,",p:129,x:94,y:464,w:485,h:26},
{t:"and serve as father as we plight our troth.",p:129,x:94,y:495,w:460,h:26},
{t:"And gods more sacred we can call: I’ll claim",p:129,x:94,y:527,w:479,h:26},
{t:"the chaste Diana and great Juno’s name:",p:129,x:94,y:559,w:446,h:26},
{t:"and all the gods around us there can press",p:129,x:94,y:590,w:466,h:26},
{t:"as surety for holy promises.",p:129,x:94,y:622,w:304,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:129,x:94,y:674,w:77,h:26},
{t:"I will, but go at once: the king is near.",p:129,x:94,y:725,w:420,h:26},
{t:"I’ll wait a while to hide your presence here",p:129,x:94,y:757,w:464,h:26},
{t:"if you will leave me but a faithful guide",p:129,x:94,y:789,w:424,h:26},
{t:"1410. to urge the steps on of your doubting bride.",p:129,x:94,y:820,w:548,h:26},
{t:"Scene 2",p:129,x:94,y:924,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Theseus, Aricia, Ismene",p:129,x:94,y:975,w:260,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:129,x:94,y:1059,w:102,h:26},
{t:"The gods illumine darkness in my mind",p:129,x:94,y:1110,w:426,h:26},
{t:"and give the certainty I have to find.",p:129,x:94,y:1142,w:400,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:129,x:94,y:1194,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Make all things ready, good Ismene, dear.",p:129,x:94,y:1245,w:461,h:26},
{t:"127",p:130,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Scène 3",p:130,x:89,y:84,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Thésée, Aricie",p:130,x:89,y:135,w:152,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:130,x:89,y:219,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Vous changez de couleur, et semblez interdite.",p:130,x:89,y:270,w:510,h:26},
{t:"Madame ! que faisait Hippolyte en ce lieu ?",p:130,x:89,y:302,w:469,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:130,x:89,y:354,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur, il me disait un éternel adieu.",p:130,x:89,y:405,w:423,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:130,x:89,y:457,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Vos yeux ont su dompter ce rebelle courage ;",p:130,x:89,y:509,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Et ses premiers soupirs sont votre heureux ouvrage.",p:130,x:89,y:540,w:572,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:130,x:89,y:592,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur, je ne vous puis nier la vérité ;",p:130,x:89,y:644,w:439,h:26},
{t:"1420. De votre injuste haine il n'a pas hérité ;",p:130,x:89,y:675,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Il ne me traitait point comme une criminelle.",p:130,x:89,y:707,w:487,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:130,x:89,y:759,w:85,h:26},
{t:"J'entends, il vous jurait une amour éternelle.",p:130,x:89,y:810,w:488,h:26},
{t:"Ne vous assurez point sur ce coeur inconstant ;",p:130,x:89,y:842,w:519,h:26},
{t:"Car à d'autres que vous il en jurait autant.",p:130,x:89,y:874,w:462,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:130,x:89,y:925,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Lui, Seigneur ?",p:130,x:89,y:977,w:163,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:130,x:89,y:1029,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Vous deviez le rendre moins volage ;",p:130,x:89,y:1080,w:403,h:26},
{t:"Comment souffriez-vous cet horrible partage ?",p:130,x:89,y:1112,w:507,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:130,x:89,y:1164,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Et comment souffrez-vous que d'horribles discours",p:130,x:89,y:1215,w:552,h:26},
{t:"D'une si belle vie osent noircir le cours ?",p:130,x:89,y:1247,w:440,h:26},
{t:"128",p:131,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Scene 3",p:131,x:94,y:84,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Theseus, Aricia",p:131,x:94,y:135,w:164,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:131,x:94,y:219,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Your colour changes, Madam. You appear",p:131,x:94,y:270,w:452,h:26},
{t:"confused, as though my son were here as well.",p:131,x:94,y:302,w:512,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:131,x:94,y:354,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Of me he took a long and last farewell.",p:131,x:94,y:405,w:423,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:131,x:94,y:457,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Your eyes prevailed on him and, as a whim,",p:131,x:94,y:509,w:477,h:26},
{t:"have drawn the first of love’s long sighs from him.",p:131,x:94,y:540,w:548,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:131,x:94,y:592,w:77,h:26},
{t:"What is so obvious I’ll not deny",p:131,x:94,y:644,w:341,h:26},
{t:"1420. but know he put his father’s hatred by:",p:131,x:94,y:675,w:498,h:26},
{t:"he did not see me as a criminal.",p:131,x:94,y:707,w:350,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:131,x:94,y:759,w:102,h:26},
{t:"He loves you, so he swore, and always shall.",p:131,x:94,y:810,w:487,h:26},
{t:"But be acquainted that his feckless heart",p:131,x:94,y:842,w:445,h:26},
{t:"has been emboldened in some other’s part.",p:131,x:94,y:874,w:473,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:131,x:94,y:925,w:77,h:26},
{t:"He?",p:131,x:94,y:977,w:40,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:131,x:94,y:1029,w:102,h:26},
{t:"You should have been less prompt to snatch",p:131,x:94,y:1080,w:482,h:26},
{t:"the advantages of such a perjured match.",p:131,x:94,y:1112,w:455,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:131,x:94,y:1164,w:77,h:26},
{t:"How could you let this calumny of truth",p:131,x:94,y:1215,w:429,h:26},
{t:"affect the clean-limbed passage of his youth?",p:131,x:94,y:1247,w:493,h:26},
{t:"129",p:132,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Avez-vous de son coeur si peu de connaissance ?",p:132,x:89,y:84,w:536,h:26},
{t:"1430. Discernez-vous si mal le crime et l'innocence ?",p:132,x:89,y:115,w:578,h:26},
{t:"Faut-il qu'à vos yeux seuls un nuage odieux",p:132,x:89,y:147,w:478,h:26},
{t:"Dérobe sa vertu qui brille à tous les yeux ?",p:132,x:89,y:179,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! c'est trop le livrer à des langues perfides.",p:132,x:89,y:210,w:502,h:26},
{t:"Cessez. Repentez-vous de vos voeux homicides ;",p:132,x:89,y:242,w:536,h:26},
{t:"Craignez, Seigneur, craignez que le ciel rigoureux",p:132,x:89,y:274,w:541,h:26},
{t:"Ne vous haïsse assez pour exercer vos voeux.",p:132,x:89,y:305,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Souvent dans sa colère il reçoit nos victimes ;",p:132,x:89,y:337,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Ses présents sont souvent la peine de nos crimes.",p:132,x:89,y:369,w:545,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:132,x:89,y:420,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Non, vous voulez en vain couvrir son attentat.",p:132,x:89,y:472,w:502,h:26},
{t:"1440. Votre amour vous aveugle en faveur de l'ingrat.",p:132,x:89,y:504,w:592,h:26},
{t:"Mais j'en crois des témoins certains, irréprochables :",p:132,x:89,y:535,w:573,h:26},
{t:"J'ai vu, j'ai vu couler des larmes véritables.",p:132,x:89,y:567,w:471,h:26},
{t:"ARICIE",p:132,x:89,y:619,w:76,h:26},
{t:"Prenez garde, Seigneur. Vos invincibles mains",p:132,x:89,y:670,w:502,h:26},
{t:"Ont de monstres sans nombre affranchi les humains ;",p:132,x:89,y:702,w:586,h:26},
{t:"Mais tout n'est pas détruit, et vous en laissez vivre",p:132,x:89,y:734,w:554,h:26},
{t:"Un... Votre fils, Seigneur, me défend de poursuivre.",p:132,x:89,y:765,w:565,h:26},
{t:"Instruite du respect qu'il veut vous conserver,",p:132,x:89,y:797,w:502,h:26},
{t:"Je l'affligerais trop si j'osais achever.",p:132,x:89,y:829,w:401,h:26},
{t:"J'imite sa pudeur, et fuis votre présence",p:132,x:89,y:860,w:437,h:26},
{t:"1450. Pour n'être pas forcée de rompre le silence.",p:132,x:89,y:892,w:545,h:26},
{t:"Scène 4",p:132,x:89,y:995,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Thésée",p:132,x:89,y:1047,w:76,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:132,x:89,y:1150,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Quelle est donc sa pensée ? et que cache un discours",p:132,x:89,y:1202,w:581,h:26},
{t:"Commencé tant de fois, interrompu toujours ?",p:132,x:89,y:1234,w:504,h:26},
{t:"130",p:133,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"That’s heart’s unknown. You see no difference",p:133,x:94,y:84,w:501,h:26},
{t:"1430. between a crime and shining innocence.",p:133,x:94,y:115,w:506,h:26},
{t:"To you alone the hateful cloud of lies",p:133,x:94,y:147,w:401,h:26},
{t:"obscures the virtue clear in others’ eyes.",p:133,x:94,y:179,w:443,h:26},
{t:"Must furious slander hurt him and allow",p:133,x:94,y:210,w:431,h:26},
{t:"your prosecution of that murderous vow?",p:133,x:94,y:242,w:450,h:26},
{t:"Pray the unbending sky will never nurse",p:133,x:94,y:274,w:436,h:26},
{t:"a hate sufficient to fulfil your curse.",p:133,x:94,y:305,w:387,h:26},
{t:"Anger’s offering will often win",p:133,x:94,y:337,w:323,h:26},
{t:"a scourge that cruelly punishes our sin.",p:133,x:94,y:369,w:428,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:133,x:94,y:420,w:102,h:26},
{t:"It’s love that makes you vainly turn away",p:133,x:94,y:472,w:451,h:26},
{t:"1440. from what this wretch’s failings clearly say,",p:133,x:94,y:504,w:541,h:26},
{t:"for I have witnesses, true witnesses, whose pain",p:133,x:94,y:535,w:530,h:26},
{t:"and tears exceed what any lie could feign.",p:133,x:94,y:567,w:458,h:26},
{t:"ARICIA",p:133,x:94,y:619,w:77,h:26},
{t:"Take care, my lord, for one whose hand may kill",p:133,x:94,y:670,w:527,h:26},
{t:"unnumbered monsters may be leaving still",p:133,x:94,y:702,w:464,h:26},
{t:"a worse unnoticed where no light has shone . . .",p:133,x:94,y:734,w:525,h:26},
{t:"but then your son forbids that I go on,",p:133,x:94,y:765,w:419,h:26},
{t:"It’s in the reverence he feels for you,",p:133,x:94,y:797,w:403,h:26},
{t:"and there’d be matters here to hurt him too.",p:133,x:94,y:829,w:485,h:26},
{t:"I leave your presence now lest I reveal",p:133,x:94,y:860,w:424,h:26},
{t:"1450. what with his modesty I should conceal.",p:133,x:94,y:892,w:506,h:26},
{t:"Scene 4",p:133,x:94,y:995,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Theseus",p:133,x:94,y:1047,w:88,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:133,x:94,y:1150,w:102,h:26},
{t:"What are these guarded mansions of the mind,",p:133,x:94,y:1202,w:512,h:26},
{t:"these threats they open with but never find?",p:133,x:94,y:1234,w:484,h:26},
{t:"131",p:134,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Veulent-ils m'éblouir par une feinte vaine ?",p:134,x:89,y:84,w:469,h:26},
{t:"Sont-ils d'accord pour me metre à la gêne; ?",p:134,x:89,y:115,w:489,h:26},
{t:"Mais moi-même, malgré ma sévère rigueur,",p:134,x:89,y:147,w:479,h:26},
{t:"Quelle plaintive voix crie au fond de mon coeur ?",p:134,x:89,y:179,w:533,h:26},
{t:"Une pitié secrète et m'afflige et m'étonne.",p:134,x:89,y:210,w:458,h:26},
{t:"Une seconde fois interrogeons OEnone.",p:134,x:89,y:242,w:427,h:26},
{t:"Je veux de tout le crime être mieux éclairci.",p:134,x:89,y:274,w:477,h:26},
{t:"1460. Gardes ! qu' OEnone sorte, et vienne seule ici.",p:134,x:89,y:305,w:576,h:26},
{t:"Scène 5",p:134,x:89,y:409,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Thésée, Panope",p:134,x:89,y:460,w:171,h:26},
{t:"PANOPE",p:134,x:89,y:564,w:87,h:26},
{t:"J'ignore le projet que la reine médite,",p:134,x:89,y:615,w:409,h:26},
{t:"Seigneur. Mais je crains tout du transport qui l'agite.",p:134,x:89,y:647,w:575,h:26},
{t:"Un mortel désespoir sur son visage est peint ;",p:134,x:89,y:679,w:502,h:26},
{t:"La pâleur de la mort est déjà sur son teint.",p:134,x:89,y:710,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Déjà, de sa présence avec honte chassée,",p:134,x:89,y:742,w:457,h:26},
{t:"Dans la profonde mer OEnone s'est lancée.",p:134,x:89,y:774,w:470,h:26},
{t:"On ne sait point d'où part ce dessein furieux ;",p:134,x:89,y:805,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Et les flots pour jamais l'ont ravie à nos yeux.",p:134,x:89,y:837,w:500,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:134,x:89,y:889,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Qu'entends-je ?",p:134,x:89,y:940,w:172,h:26},
{t:"PANOPE",p:134,x:89,y:992,w:87,h:26},
{t:"Son trépas n'a point calmé la reine :",p:134,x:89,y:1044,w:397,h:26},
{t:"1470. Le trouble semble croître en son âme incertaine.",p:134,x:89,y:1075,w:598,h:26},
{t:"Quelquefois, pour flatter ses secrètes douleurs,",p:134,x:89,y:1107,w:514,h:26},
{t:"Elle prend ses enfants et les baigne de pleurs ;",p:134,x:89,y:1139,w:511,h:26},
{t:"Et soudain, renonçant à l'amour maternelle,",p:134,x:89,y:1170,w:478,h:26},
{t:"Sa main avec horreur les repousse loin d'elle.",p:134,x:89,y:1202,w:496,h:26},
{t:"Elle porte au hasard ses pas irrésolus ;",p:134,x:89,y:1234,w:423,h:26},
{t:"Son oeil tout égaré ne nous reconnaît plus.",p:134,x:89,y:1265,w:468,h:26},
{t:"132",p:135,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"A sham, an episode that they invent",p:135,x:94,y:84,w:395,h:26},
{t:"to add a danger to this discontent.",p:135,x:94,y:115,w:376,h:26},
{t:"Yet down the darkened windings of the heart",p:135,x:94,y:147,w:489,h:26},
{t:"I hear a thing cry out. The doubtings start",p:135,x:94,y:179,w:459,h:26},
{t:"again, to shake, unsettle confidence.",p:135,x:94,y:210,w:400,h:26},
{t:"Oenone. Let us question her and hence",p:135,x:94,y:242,w:427,h:26},
{t:"retrieve with clarity just what is known.",p:135,x:94,y:274,w:432,h:26},
{t:"1460. I’ll have the guards ensure she come alone.",p:135,x:94,y:305,w:546,h:26},
{t:"Scene 5",p:135,x:94,y:409,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Theseus, Panope",p:135,x:94,y:460,w:183,h:26},
{t:"PANOPE",p:135,x:94,y:564,w:87,h:26},
{t:"I know not what the slandered queen intends",p:135,x:94,y:615,w:493,h:26},
{t:"but fear the agitation that her mood portends.",p:135,x:94,y:647,w:504,h:26},
{t:"How pale she is, and showing such despair",p:135,x:94,y:679,w:466,h:26},
{t:"as though already death were painted there.",p:135,x:94,y:710,w:485,h:26},
{t:"But more, by shame propelled, Oenone’s thrown",p:135,x:94,y:742,w:529,h:26},
{t:"herself into the sea, though unbeknown",p:135,x:94,y:774,w:432,h:26},
{t:"to us the purposes that action buys",p:135,x:94,y:805,w:385,h:26},
{t:"but lost for ever from our smiling eyes.",p:135,x:94,y:837,w:427,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:135,x:94,y:889,w:102,h:26},
{t:"What!",p:135,x:94,y:940,w:65,h:26},
{t:"PANOPE",p:135,x:94,y:992,w:87,h:26},
{t:"Her action has not calmed the queen",p:135,x:94,y:1044,w:401,h:26},
{t:"1470 who seems the more distracted, torn between",p:135,x:94,y:1075,w:563,h:26},
{t:"her children’s sufferings and silent fears.",p:135,x:94,y:1107,w:443,h:26},
{t:"She takes them up and  holds them, bathes with tears,",p:135,x:94,y:1139,w:600,h:26},
{t:"then, as a mother’s love would then condemn,",p:135,x:94,y:1170,w:506,h:26},
{t:"she shakes, in horror will have none of them.",p:135,x:94,y:1202,w:493,h:26},
{t:"She walks distracted there as though her eyes",p:135,x:94,y:1234,w:504,h:26},
{t:"saw horror more than those she’d recognize.",p:135,x:94,y:1265,w:487,h:26},
{t:"133",p:136,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Elle a trois fois écrit, et changeant de pensée,",p:136,x:89,y:84,w:498,h:26},
{t:"Trois fois elle a rompu sa lettre commencée.",p:136,x:89,y:115,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Daignez la voir, Seigneur, daignez la secourir.",p:136,x:89,y:147,w:501,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:136,x:89,y:199,w:85,h:26},
{t:"1480. O ciel ! OEnone est morte, et Phèdre veut mourir ?",p:136,x:89,y:250,w:624,h:26},
{t:"Qu'on rappelle mon fils, qu'il vienne se défendre,",p:136,x:89,y:282,w:535,h:26},
{t:"Qu'il vienne me parler, je suis prêt de l'entendre.",p:136,x:89,y:314,w:536,h:26},
{t:"Ne précipite point tes funestes bienfaits,",p:136,x:89,y:345,w:439,h:26},
{t:"Neptune ; j'aime mieux n'être exaucé jamais.",p:136,x:89,y:377,w:498,h:26},
{t:"J'ai peut-être trop cru des témoins peu fidèles ;",p:136,x:89,y:409,w:519,h:26},
{t:"Et j'ai trop tôt vers toi levé mes mains cruelles.",p:136,x:89,y:440,w:516,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! de quel désespoir mes voeux seraient suivis !",p:136,x:89,y:472,w:548,h:26},
{t:"Scène 6",p:136,x:89,y:575,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Thésée, Théramène",p:136,x:89,y:627,w:214,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:136,x:89,y:730,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Théramène, est-ce toi ? Qu'as-tu fait de mon fils ?",p:136,x:89,y:782,w:548,h:26},
{t:"Je te l'ai confié dès l'âge le plus tendre.",p:136,x:89,y:814,w:430,h:26},
{t:"1490. Mais d'où naissent les pleurs que je te vois répandre ?",p:136,x:89,y:845,w:661,h:26},
{t:"Que fait mon fils ?",p:136,x:89,y:877,w:199,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:136,x:89,y:929,w:134,h:26},
{t:"O soins tardifs et superflus !",p:136,x:89,y:980,w:308,h:26},
{t:"Inutile tendresse ! Hippolyte n'est plus.",p:136,x:89,y:1012,w:428,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:136,x:89,y:1064,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Dieux !",p:136,x:89,y:1115,w:78,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:136,x:89,y:1167,w:134,h:26},
{t:"J'ai vu des mortels périr le plus aimable,",p:136,x:89,y:1219,w:441,h:26},
{t:"Et j'ose dire encor, Seigneur, le moins coupable.",p:136,x:89,y:1250,w:528,h:26},
{t:"134",p:137,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Three times she’s written, but has changed her mind",p:137,x:94,y:84,w:575,h:26},
{t:"and torn the message up as undivined:",p:137,x:94,y:115,w:426,h:26},
{t:"My lord, please help her in this dangerous state.",p:137,x:94,y:147,w:527,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:137,x:94,y:199,w:102,h:26},
{t:"1480. Oenone dead and Phaedra near that fate!",p:137,x:94,y:250,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Recall my son at once, and we will hear",p:137,x:94,y:282,w:431,h:26},
{t:"the truth defend itself, that all be clear.",p:137,x:94,y:314,w:429,h:26},
{t:"(Alone) Be not precipitant with your fierce gifts,",p:137,x:94,y:345,w:521,h:26},
{t:"now Neptune, as my anger wanders, shifts.",p:137,x:94,y:377,w:473,h:26},
{t:"It may be true I did not understand",p:137,x:94,y:409,w:388,h:26},
{t:"his words and judged too quickly. Stay the hand:",p:137,x:94,y:440,w:536,h:26},
{t:"how terrible if what I asked were done.",p:137,x:94,y:472,w:428,h:26},
{t:"Scene 6",p:137,x:94,y:575,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Theseus, Theramenes",p:137,x:94,y:627,w:237,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:137,x:94,y:730,w:102,h:26},
{t:"What, Theramenes, of my dear son?",p:137,x:94,y:782,w:396,h:26},
{t:"Entrusted early to your keeping, though",p:137,x:94,y:814,w:435,h:26},
{t:"1490. I see you weeping now. What do they show?",p:137,x:94,y:845,w:557,h:26},
{t:"How is my son?",p:137,x:94,y:877,w:170,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:137,x:94,y:929,w:149,h:26},
{t:"How uselessly they’re shed,",p:137,x:94,y:980,w:302,h:26},
{t:"too late and pitiful: your son is dead.",p:137,x:94,y:1012,w:403,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:137,x:94,y:1064,w:102,h:26},
{t:"What!",p:137,x:94,y:1115,w:65,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:137,x:94,y:1167,w:149,h:26},
{t:"I’ve seen all mortals leave, on Hades bent,",p:137,x:94,y:1219,w:466,h:26},
{t:"but none so proudly or so innocent.",p:137,x:94,y:1250,w:388,h:26},
{t:"135",p:138,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"THESEE",p:138,x:89,y:84,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Mon fils n'est plus ? Hé quoi ! quand je lui tends les bras,",p:138,x:89,y:135,w:624,h:26},
{t:"Les Dieux impatients ont hâté son trépas ?",p:138,x:89,y:167,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Quel coup me l'a ravi ? Quelle foudre soudaine ?",p:138,x:89,y:199,w:528,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:138,x:89,y:250,w:134,h:26},
{t:"A peine nous sortions des portes de Trézène,",p:138,x:89,y:302,w:491,h:26},
{t:"Il était sur son char. Ses gardes affligés",p:138,x:89,y:334,w:433,h:26},
{t:"1500. Imitaient son silence, autour de lui rangés ;",p:138,x:89,y:365,w:547,h:26},
{t:"Il suivait tout pensif le chemin de Mycènes ;",p:138,x:89,y:397,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Sa main sur ses chevaux laissait flotter les rênes.",p:138,x:89,y:429,w:540,h:26},
{t:"Ses superbes coursiers, qu'on voyait autrefois",p:138,x:89,y:460,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Pleins d'une ardeur si noble obéir à sa voix,",p:138,x:89,y:492,w:475,h:26},
{t:"L'oeil morne maintenant et la tête baissée,",p:138,x:89,y:524,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Semblaient se conformer à sa triste pensée.",p:138,x:89,y:555,w:480,h:26},
{t:"Un effroyable cri, sorti du fond des flots,",p:138,x:89,y:587,w:440,h:26},
{t:"Des airs en ce moment a troublé le repos ;",p:138,x:89,y:619,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Et du sein de la terre une voix formidable",p:138,x:89,y:650,w:451,h:26},
{t:"1510. Répond en gémissant à ce cri redoutable.",p:138,x:89,y:682,w:522,h:26},
{t:"Jusqu'au fond de nos coeurs notre sang s'est glacé ;",p:138,x:89,y:714,w:570,h:26},
{t:"Des coursiers attentifs le crin s'est hérissé.",p:138,x:89,y:745,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Cependant sur le dos de la plaine liquide",p:138,x:89,y:777,w:441,h:26},
{t:"S'élève à gros bouillons une montagne humide ;",p:138,x:89,y:809,w:527,h:26},
{t:"L'onde approche, se brise, et vomit à nos yeux,",p:138,x:89,y:840,w:518,h:26},
{t:"Parmi des flots d'écume, un monstre furieux.",p:138,x:89,y:872,w:491,h:26},
{t:"Son front large est armé de cornes menaçantes,",p:138,x:89,y:904,w:526,h:26},
{t:"Tout son corps est couvert d'écailles jaunissantes,",p:138,x:89,y:935,w:545,h:26},
{t:"Indomptable taureau, dragon impétueux,",p:138,x:89,y:967,w:450,h:26},
{t:"1520. Sa croupe se recourbe en replis tortueux.",p:138,x:89,y:999,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Ses longs mugissements font trembler le rivage.",p:138,x:89,y:1030,w:528,h:26},
{t:"Le ciel avec horreur voit ce monstre sauvage,",p:138,x:89,y:1062,w:496,h:26},
{t:"La terre s'en émeut, l'air en est infecté,",p:138,x:89,y:1094,w:430,h:26},
{t:"Le flot qui l'apporta recule épouvanté.",p:138,x:89,y:1125,w:414,h:26},
{t:"Tout fuit, et sans s'armer d'un courage inutile,",p:138,x:89,y:1157,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Dans le temple voisin chacun cherche un asile.",p:138,x:89,y:1189,w:508,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte lui seul, digne fils d'un héros,",p:138,x:89,y:1220,w:430,h:26},
{t:"Arrête ses coursiers, saisit ses javelots,",p:138,x:89,y:1252,w:429,h:26},
{t:"136",p:139,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"THESEUS",p:139,x:94,y:84,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Why, when now these loving arms I bend",p:139,x:94,y:135,w:451,h:26},
{t:"to him, the gods, impatient for his end,",p:139,x:94,y:167,w:429,h:26},
{t:"with thunderbolts have brought him to his fate.",p:139,x:94,y:199,w:516,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:139,x:94,y:250,w:149,h:26},
{t:"Scarce, when issuing from Troezen’s gate,",p:139,x:94,y:302,w:460,h:26},
{t:"he on his chariot, while all around",p:139,x:94,y:334,w:368,h:26},
{t:"1500. his guards walked quietly, not a sound",p:139,x:94,y:365,w:490,h:26},
{t:"from him or them, he took Mycenae’s route,",p:139,x:94,y:397,w:482,h:26},
{t:"the reins were slack, the horses following suit:",p:139,x:94,y:429,w:507,h:26},
{t:"those animals so proud, with swelling neck,",p:139,x:94,y:460,w:474,h:26},
{t:"that he alone commanded and could check,",p:139,x:94,y:492,w:474,h:26},
{t:"with gloomy eye now and with lowered head",p:139,x:94,y:524,w:485,h:26},
{t:"but seemed to follow where his own thought led.",p:139,x:94,y:555,w:531,h:26},
{t:"And then at once there came a frightful cry",p:139,x:94,y:587,w:469,h:26},
{t:"that rose from out the water deeps nearby,",p:139,x:94,y:619,w:472,h:26},
{t:"a fearsome cry that struck the air and took",p:139,x:94,y:650,w:467,h:26},
{t:"1510. for answer how the very earth now shook:",p:139,x:94,y:682,w:532,h:26},
{t:"our pulsing lifeblood stopped and froze",p:139,x:94,y:714,w:424,h:26},
{t:"and every horse’s mane there quivered, rose.",p:139,x:94,y:745,w:497,h:26},
{t:"We saw from that flat surface then the form",p:139,x:94,y:777,w:478,h:26},
{t:"of something huge and terrible, a storm",p:139,x:94,y:809,w:435,h:26},
{t:"approaching in that wave, which broke and showed",p:139,x:94,y:840,w:559,h:26},
{t:"a terrible sea monster with great horns bowed",p:139,x:94,y:872,w:504,h:26},
{t:"about a forehead, with its flanks chain-mailed",p:139,x:94,y:904,w:498,h:26},
{t:"impenetrably it seemed and yellow-scaled,",p:139,x:94,y:935,w:465,h:26},
{t:"a long-tailed thrashing dragon, or a bull",p:139,x:94,y:967,w:434,h:26},
{t:"1520. impetuous and indomitable. Its full",p:139,x:94,y:999,w:451,h:26},
{t:"extent displayed, we saw it cross the ruck",p:139,x:94,y:1030,w:457,h:26},
{t:"of seashore, raging: sky was horror-struck,",p:139,x:94,y:1062,w:472,h:26},
{t:"the rolling waves drew back, the air, infected,",p:139,x:94,y:1094,w:499,h:26},
{t:"could see in terror what the waves ejected.",p:139,x:94,y:1125,w:470,h:26},
{t:"No fight was possible, and all there fled",p:139,x:94,y:1157,w:430,h:26},
{t:"towards a nearby temple. He instead,",p:139,x:94,y:1189,w:410,h:26},
{t:"the brave Hippolytus, a hero’s son,",p:139,x:94,y:1220,w:381,h:26},
{t:"with snatched-up javelin had just begun",p:139,x:94,y:1252,w:437,h:26},
{t:"137",p:140,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Pousse au monstre, et d'un dard lancé d'une main sûre,",p:140,x:89,y:84,w:609,h:26},
{t:"1530. Il lui fait dans le flanc une large blessure.",p:140,x:89,y:115,w:521,h:26},
{t:"De rage et de douleur le monstre bondissant",p:140,x:89,y:147,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Vient aux pieds des chevaux tomber en mugissant,",p:140,x:89,y:179,w:557,h:26},
{t:"Se roule, et leur présente une gueule enflammée,",p:140,x:89,y:210,w:541,h:26},
{t:"Qui les couvre de feu, de sang et de fumée.",p:140,x:89,y:242,w:477,h:26},
{t:"La fureur les emporte, et sourds à cette fois,",p:140,x:89,y:274,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Ils ne connaissent plus ni le frein ni la voix.",p:140,x:89,y:305,w:471,h:26},
{t:"En efforts impuissants leur maître se consume,",p:140,x:89,y:337,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Ils rougissent le mors d'une sanglante écume.",p:140,x:89,y:369,w:502,h:26},
{t:"On dit qu'on a vu même, en ce désordre affreux,",p:140,x:89,y:400,w:533,h:26},
{t:"1540. Un dieu qui d'aiguillons pressait leur flanc poudreux.",p:140,x:89,y:432,w:641,h:26},
{t:"A travers des rochers la peur les précipite.",p:140,x:89,y:464,w:461,h:26},
{t:"L'essieu crie et se rompt. L'intrépide Hippolyte",p:140,x:89,y:495,w:506,h:26},
{t:"Voit voler en éclats tout son char fracassé.",p:140,x:89,y:527,w:463,h:26},
{t:"Dans les rênes lui-même il tombe embarrassé.",p:140,x:89,y:559,w:509,h:26},
{t:"Excusez ma douleur. Cette image cruelle",p:140,x:89,y:590,w:444,h:26},
{t:"Sera pour moi de pleurs une source éternelle.",p:140,x:89,y:622,w:499,h:26},
{t:"J'ai vu, Seigneur, j'ai vu votre malheureux fils",p:140,x:89,y:654,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Traîné par les chevaux que sa main a nourris.",p:140,x:89,y:685,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Il veut les rappeler, et sa voix les effraie ;",p:140,x:89,y:717,w:458,h:26},
{t:"1550. Ils courent. Tout son corps n'est bientôt qu'une plaie.",p:140,x:89,y:749,w:652,h:26},
{t:"De nos cris douloureux la plaine retentit.",p:140,x:89,y:780,w:444,h:26},
{t:"Leur fougue impétueuse enfin se ralentit.",p:140,x:89,y:812,w:449,h:26},
{t:"Ils s'arrêtent non loin de ces tombeaux antiques",p:140,x:89,y:844,w:525,h:26},
{t:"Où des Rois nos aïeux sont les froides reliques.",p:140,x:89,y:875,w:513,h:26},
{t:"J'y cours en soupirant, et sa garde me suit.",p:140,x:89,y:907,w:472,h:26},
{t:"De son généreux sang la trace nous conduit.",p:140,x:89,y:939,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Les rochers en sont teints ; les ronces dégouttantes",p:140,x:89,y:970,w:564,h:26},
{t:"Portent de ses cheveux les dépouilles sanglantes.",p:140,x:89,y:1002,w:538,h:26},
{t:"J'arrive, je l'appelle, et me tendant la main,",p:140,x:89,y:1034,w:477,h:26},
{t:"1560. Il ouvre un oeil mourant qu'il referme soudain.",p:140,x:89,y:1065,w:579,h:26},
{t:"Le ciel, dit-il, m'arrache une innocente vie.",p:140,x:89,y:1097,w:465,h:26},
{t:"Prends soin après ma mort de ma chère Aricie.",p:140,x:89,y:1129,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Cher ami, si mon père un jour désabusé",p:140,x:89,y:1160,w:438,h:26},
{t:"Plaint le malheur d'un fils faussement accusé,",p:140,x:89,y:1192,w:498,h:26},
{t:"Pour apaiser mon sang et mon ombre plaintive,",p:140,x:89,y:1224,w:519,h:26},
{t:"Dis-lui qu'avec douceur il traite sa captive,",p:140,x:89,y:1255,w:464,h:26},
{t:"138",p:141,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"to close upon the monster. A weighty throw",p:141,x:94,y:84,w:477,h:26},
{t:"1530. and soon the creature’s blood began to flow.",p:141,x:94,y:115,w:556,h:26},
{t:"Whereupon, enraged, the thing must meet",p:141,x:94,y:147,w:465,h:26},
{t:"its fearsome destiny at horses’ feet.",p:141,x:94,y:179,w:391,h:26},
{t:"That coiled and rolling bundle reared and broke",p:141,x:94,y:210,w:516,h:26},
{t:"in roaring mouths of flame and blood and smoke.",p:141,x:94,y:242,w:538,h:26},
{t:"The horses, terrified, must then stampede",p:141,x:94,y:274,w:459,h:26},
{t:"and to his voice and curb could pay no heed.",p:141,x:94,y:305,w:488,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus was wrestling but in vain",p:141,x:94,y:337,w:393,h:26},
{t:"to gain a purchase on the blood-wet rein.",p:141,x:94,y:369,w:451,h:26},
{t:"It’s even said by one a god appeared",p:141,x:94,y:400,w:404,h:26},
{t:"1540. and ran along their dusty flanks and steered",p:141,x:94,y:432,w:553,h:26},
{t:"the chariot over boulders, headlong on",p:141,x:94,y:464,w:422,h:26},
{t:"until the axle groaned and all was gone.",p:141,x:94,y:495,w:436,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus among the broken stone",p:141,x:94,y:527,w:389,h:26},
{t:"was in the reins entangled and then thrown—",p:141,x:94,y:559,w:496,h:26},
{t:"the scenes so harrowing that they will stain",p:141,x:94,y:590,w:474,h:26},
{t:"the memory afterwards with vivid pain—",p:141,x:94,y:622,w:442,h:26},
{t:"I saw that son of yours, my lord, instead",p:141,x:94,y:654,w:444,h:26},
{t:"torn up by horses that his hand had fed:",p:141,x:94,y:685,w:441,h:26},
{t:"his voice so foreign to him, on they went",p:141,x:94,y:717,w:445,h:26},
{t:"1550. until that body wore into one weeping rent.",p:141,x:94,y:749,w:542,h:26},
{t:"Such cries there were till under their own force",p:141,x:94,y:780,w:511,h:26},
{t:"they slowly came to, left that smoking course",p:141,x:94,y:812,w:496,h:26},
{t:"and drew to silence near the temple that contains",p:141,x:94,y:844,w:542,h:26},
{t:"of trophied ancestors their cold remains,",p:141,x:94,y:875,w:441,h:26},
{t:"when, I and guards, by bloody smearings led,",p:141,x:94,y:907,w:500,h:26},
{t:"ran backward on the trail of lifeblood shed",p:141,x:94,y:939,w:460,h:26},
{t:"across the dripping rocks where bushes bore",p:141,x:94,y:970,w:486,h:26},
{t:"the shreds of hair and skin thick hung with gore.",p:141,x:94,y:1002,w:529,h:26},
{t:"I found him lying there, and took his hand.",p:141,x:94,y:1034,w:469,h:26},
{t:"1560. One closing glance he took to understand.",p:141,x:94,y:1065,w:530,h:26},
{t:"So gods will have a guiltless life, he said.",p:141,x:94,y:1097,w:447,h:26},
{t:"Take care of my Aricia when I am dead.",p:141,x:94,y:1129,w:434,h:26},
{t:"And if my father should, his doubts begun,",p:141,x:94,y:1160,w:465,h:26},
{t:"to think in sadness of his slandered son",p:141,x:94,y:1192,w:430,h:26},
{t:"it would appease my shade, for all that’s passed,",p:141,x:94,y:1224,w:533,h:26},
{t:"to show the princess clemency at last,",p:141,x:94,y:1255,w:416,h:26},
{t:"139",p:142,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Qu'il lui rende... A ce mot ce héros expiré",p:142,x:89,y:84,w:454,h:26},
{t:"N'a laissé dans mes bras qu'un corps défiguré,",p:142,x:89,y:115,w:507,h:26},
{t:"Triste objet, où des Dieux triomphe la colère,",p:142,x:89,y:147,w:493,h:26},
{t:"1570. Et que méconnaîtrait l'oeil même de son père.",p:142,x:89,y:179,w:573,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:142,x:89,y:230,w:85,h:26},
{t:"O mon fils ! cher espoir que je me suis ravi !",p:142,x:89,y:282,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Inexorables Dieux, qui m'avez trop servi !",p:142,x:89,y:314,w:457,h:26},
{t:"A quels mortels regrets ma vie est réservée !",p:142,x:89,y:345,w:492,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENE",p:142,x:89,y:397,w:134,h:26},
{t:"La timide Aricie est alors arrivée.",p:142,x:89,y:449,w:359,h:26},
{t:"Elle venait, Seigneur, fuyant votre courroux,",p:142,x:89,y:480,w:484,h:26},
{t:"A la face des Dieux l'accepter pour époux.",p:142,x:89,y:512,w:458,h:26},
{t:"Elle approche. Elle voit l'herbe rouge et fumante.",p:142,x:89,y:544,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Elle voit (quel objet pour les yeux d'une amante !)",p:142,x:89,y:575,w:549,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte étendu, sans forme et sans couleur.",p:142,x:89,y:607,w:502,h:26},
{t:"1580. Elle veut quelque temps douter de son malheur,",p:142,x:89,y:639,w:594,h:26},
{t:"Et ne connaissant plus ce héros qu'elle adore,",p:142,x:89,y:670,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Elle voit Hippolyte et le demande encore.",p:142,x:89,y:702,w:448,h:26},
{t:"Mais trop sûre à la fin qu'il est devant ses yeux,",p:142,x:89,y:734,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Par un triste regard elle accuse les Dieux,",p:142,x:89,y:765,w:453,h:26},
{t:"Et froide, gémissante, et presque inanimée,",p:142,x:89,y:797,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Aux pieds de son amant elle tombe pâmée.",p:142,x:89,y:829,w:472,h:26},
{t:"Ismène est auprès d'elle; Ismène, tout en pleurs,",p:142,x:89,y:860,w:539,h:26},
{t:"La rappelle à la vie, ou plutôt aux douleurs.",p:142,x:89,y:892,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Et moi, je suis venu, détestant la lumière,",p:142,x:89,y:924,w:457,h:26},
{t:"1590. Vous dire d'un héros la volonté dernière,",p:142,x:89,y:955,w:513,h:26},
{t:"Et m'acquitter, Seigneur, du malheureux emploi",p:142,x:89,y:987,w:523,h:26},
{t:"Dont son coeur expirant s'est reposé sur moi.",p:142,x:89,y:1019,w:496,h:26},
{t:"Mais j'aperçois venir sa mortelle ennemie.",p:142,x:89,y:1050,w:458,h:26},
{t:"Scène 7",p:142,x:89,y:1154,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Thésée, Phèdre, Théramène, Panope, Gardes",p:142,x:89,y:1205,w:491,h:26},
{t:"140",p:143,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"to give her back her liberty. He fell away,",p:143,x:94,y:84,w:451,h:26},
{t:"broken and disfigured: in my arms he lay,",p:143,x:94,y:115,w:459,h:26},
{t:"a sign of anger under heaven’s eyes",p:143,x:94,y:147,w:394,h:26},
{t:"1570. that even his own father would not recognize.",p:143,x:94,y:179,w:568,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:143,x:94,y:230,w:102,h:26},
{t:"It is myself and son I have destroyed.",p:143,x:94,y:282,w:414,h:26},
{t:"Implacably the gods have been deployed",p:143,x:94,y:314,w:446,h:26},
{t:"that all my mortal life I’ll feel this shame.",p:143,x:94,y:345,w:451,h:26},
{t:"THERAMENES",p:143,x:94,y:397,w:149,h:26},
{t:"And to this place the shy Aricia came,",p:143,x:94,y:449,w:411,h:26},
{t:"afraid of your fierce wrath but trusting still",p:143,x:94,y:480,w:463,h:26},
{t:"to pledge her vows before high heaven’s will.",p:143,x:94,y:512,w:492,h:26},
{t:"She approached but found the grass was streaked with red,",p:143,x:94,y:544,w:650,h:26},
{t:"and saw (but what was that for lover’s bed?)",p:143,x:94,y:575,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus stretched out, disfigured, pale,",p:143,x:94,y:607,w:457,h:26},
{t:"1580. and stood there doubting, feeling spirits fail.",p:143,x:94,y:639,w:553,h:26},
{t:"Could this be he, the man for which she yearned?",p:143,x:94,y:670,w:542,h:26},
{t:"She went on slowly till her eyes returned",p:143,x:94,y:702,w:445,h:26},
{t:"to late Hippolytus and there took fright.",p:143,x:94,y:734,w:432,h:26},
{t:"The gods admonishing for needless spite,",p:143,x:94,y:765,w:451,h:26},
{t:"and moaning, beside herself, began to sway",p:143,x:94,y:797,w:481,h:26},
{t:"until, at lover’s feet, she swooned away.",p:143,x:94,y:829,w:440,h:26},
{t:"Ismene was with her, tearful, and sustained",p:143,x:94,y:860,w:480,h:26},
{t:"a body passing out to what the world had pained.",p:143,x:94,y:892,w:540,h:26},
{t:"As I have come, more angry at the sight,",p:143,x:94,y:924,w:449,h:26},
{t:"1590. to seek for our dead hero what is right,",p:143,x:94,y:955,w:498,h:26},
{t:"the last sad embassy the fallen heart had tried",p:143,x:94,y:987,w:507,h:26},
{t:"to give you, what he sought for when he died.",p:143,x:94,y:1019,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Yet now there comes his vengeful enemy.",p:143,x:94,y:1050,w:455,h:26},
{t:"Scene 7",p:143,x:94,y:1154,w:86,h:26},
{t:"Theseus, Phaedre, Theramenes, Guards",p:143,x:94,y:1205,w:433,h:26},
{t:"141",p:144,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"THESEE",p:144,x:89,y:84,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Hé bien ! vous triomphez, et mon fils est sans vie.",p:144,x:89,y:135,w:548,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! que j'ai lieu de craindre ! et qu'un cruel soupçon,",p:144,x:89,y:167,w:586,h:26},
{t:"L'excusant dans mon coeur, m'alarme avec raison !",p:144,x:89,y:199,w:561,h:26},
{t:"Mais, Madame, il est mort, prenez votre victime :",p:144,x:89,y:230,w:539,h:26},
{t:"Jouissez de sa perte, injuste ou légitime.",p:144,x:89,y:262,w:444,h:26},
{t:"Je consens que mes yeux soient toujours abusés.",p:144,x:89,y:294,w:538,h:26},
{t:"1600. Je le crois criminel puisque vous l'accusez.",p:144,x:89,y:325,w:533,h:26},
{t:"Son trépas à mes pleurs offre assez de matières,",p:144,x:89,y:357,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Sans que j'aille chercher d'odieuses lumières,",p:144,x:89,y:389,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Qui ne pouvant le rendre à ma juste douleur,",p:144,x:89,y:420,w:492,h:26},
{t:"Peut-être ne feraient qu'accroître mon malheur.",p:144,x:89,y:452,w:521,h:26},
{t:"Laissez-moi, loin de vous et loin de ce rivage,",p:144,x:89,y:484,w:498,h:26},
{t:"De mon fils déchiré fuir la sanglante image.",p:144,x:89,y:515,w:475,h:26},
{t:"Confus, persécuté d'un mortel souvenir,",p:144,x:89,y:547,w:436,h:26},
{t:"De l'univers entier je voudrais me bannir.",p:144,x:89,y:579,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Tout semble s'élever contre mon injustice.",p:144,x:89,y:610,w:462,h:26},
{t:"1610. L'éclat de mon nom même augmente mon supplice.",p:144,x:89,y:642,w:635,h:26},
{t:"Moins connu des mortels, je me cacherais mieux.",p:144,x:89,y:674,w:537,h:26},
{t:"Je hais jusques au soin dont m'honorent les Dieux ;",p:144,x:89,y:705,w:564,h:26},
{t:"Et je m'en vais pleurer leurs faveurs meurtrières,",p:144,x:89,y:737,w:537,h:26},
{t:"Sans plus les fatiguer d'inutiles prières.",p:144,x:89,y:769,w:428,h:26},
{t:"Quoi qu'ils fissent pour moi, leur funeste bonté",p:144,x:89,y:800,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Ne me saurait payer de ce qu'ils m'ont ôté.",p:144,x:89,y:832,w:470,h:26},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:144,x:89,y:884,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Non, Thésée, il faut rompre un injuste silence ;",p:144,x:89,y:935,w:513,h:26},
{t:"Il faut à votre fils rendre son innocence.",p:144,x:89,y:967,w:436,h:26},
{t:"Il n'était point coupable.",p:144,x:89,y:999,w:265,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:144,x:89,y:1050,w:85,h:26},
{t:"Ah ! père infortuné !",p:144,x:89,y:1102,w:222,h:26},
{t:"1620. Et c'est sur votre foi que je l'ai condamné !",p:144,x:89,y:1134,w:539,h:26},
{t:"Cruelle, pensez-vous être assez excusée...",p:144,x:89,y:1165,w:463,h:26},
{t:"142",p:145,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"THESEUS",p:145,x:94,y:84,w:102,h:26},
{t:"So you have triumphed: such success you see",p:145,x:94,y:135,w:503,h:26},
{t:"is no more made by doubts and fears that sent",p:145,x:94,y:167,w:512,h:26},
{t:"away unheard the plea of innocent.",p:145,x:94,y:199,w:384,h:26},
{t:"Yes, Madam, he is dead, and you have won.",p:145,x:94,y:230,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Accept, enjoy the worsting of my son,",p:145,x:94,y:262,w:413,h:26},
{t:"for I’ll content myself to be deceived.",p:145,x:94,y:294,w:407,h:26},
{t:"1600. You call him criminal, and are believed.",p:145,x:94,y:325,w:499,h:26},
{t:"His death will make my tears to flow as fast,",p:145,x:94,y:357,w:484,h:26},
{t:"I think, as any truth of yours at last,",p:145,x:94,y:389,w:397,h:26},
{t:"which could not bring him back to me, but press",p:145,x:94,y:420,w:527,h:26},
{t:"more keenly on me causes for distress.",p:145,x:94,y:452,w:428,h:26},
{t:"I’d leave you now: these shores have been",p:145,x:94,y:484,w:469,h:26},
{t:"too keen a witness of this bloody scene.",p:145,x:94,y:515,w:435,h:26},
{t:"Confused and persecuted, I would fare",p:145,x:94,y:547,w:421,h:26},
{t:"beyond a universe of grieving there.",p:145,x:94,y:579,w:395,h:26},
{t:"All semblance to a justice is no gain,",p:145,x:94,y:610,w:398,h:26},
{t:"1610. and my celebrity but seems more pain.",p:145,x:94,y:642,w:497,h:26},
{t:"Less known to mortals I would keep from view",p:145,x:94,y:674,w:507,h:26},
{t:"the honours gods have shown me hitherto.",p:145,x:94,y:705,w:468,h:26},
{t:"I now bewail me of their murderous cares",p:145,x:94,y:737,w:455,h:26},
{t:"and will not tire them with my fruitless prayers.",p:145,x:94,y:769,w:519,h:26},
{t:"What they have done for me, that deadly aid,",p:145,x:94,y:800,w:496,h:26},
{t:"they won’t return in gifts for which I’ve paid.",p:145,x:94,y:832,w:486,h:26},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:145,x:94,y:884,w:104,h:26},
{t:"Enough of silences, and let me speak",p:145,x:94,y:935,w:404,h:26},
{t:"out loud the answers which you no doubt seek.",p:145,x:94,y:967,w:514,h:26},
{t:"Your son was innocent.",p:145,x:94,y:999,w:252,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:145,x:94,y:1050,w:102,h:26},
{t:"A wretch I am",p:145,x:94,y:1102,w:153,h:26},
{t:"1620. who took your sophistries to damn",p:145,x:94,y:1134,w:447,h:26},
{t:"him irredeemably. Credulous",p:145,x:94,y:1165,w:315,h:26},
{t:"I was. . .",p:145,x:94,y:1197,w:97,h:26},
{t:"143",p:146,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"PHEDRE",p:146,x:89,y:84,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Les moments me sont chers, écoutez-moi, Thésée.",p:146,x:89,y:135,w:555,h:26},
{t:"C'est moi qui sur ce fils chaste et respectueux",p:146,x:89,y:167,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Osai jeter un oeil profane, incestueux.",p:146,x:89,y:199,w:416,h:26},
{t:"Le ciel mit dans mon sein une flamme funeste ;",p:146,x:89,y:230,w:519,h:26},
{t:"La détestable OEnone a conduit tout le reste.",p:146,x:89,y:262,w:492,h:26},
{t:"Elle a craint qu'Hippolyte, instruit de ma fureur,",p:146,x:89,y:294,w:520,h:26},
{t:"Ne découvrît un feu qui lui faisait horreur.",p:146,x:89,y:325,w:456,h:26},
{t:"La perfide, abusant de ma faiblesse extrême,",p:146,x:89,y:357,w:492,h:26},
{t:"1630. S'est hâtée à vos yeux de l'accuser lui-même.",p:146,x:89,y:389,w:570,h:26},
{t:"Elle s'en est punie, et fuyant mon courroux,",p:146,x:89,y:420,w:477,h:26},
{t:"A cherché dans les flots un supplice trop doux.",p:146,x:89,y:452,w:508,h:26},
{t:"Le fer aurait déjà tranché ma destinée ;",p:146,x:89,y:484,w:435,h:26},
{t:"Mais je laissais gémir la vertu soupçonnée.",p:146,x:89,y:515,w:466,h:26},
{t:"J'ai voulu, devant vous exposant mes remords,",p:146,x:89,y:547,w:514,h:26},
{t:"Par un chemin plus lent descendre chez les morts.",p:146,x:89,y:579,w:547,h:26},
{t:"J'ai pris, j'ai fait couler dans mes brûlantes veines",p:146,x:89,y:610,w:544,h:26},
{t:"Un poison que Médée apporta dans Athènes.",p:146,x:89,y:642,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Déjà jusqu'à mon coeur le venin parvenu",p:146,x:89,y:674,w:448,h:26},
{t:"1640. Dans ce coeur expirant jette un froid inconnu ;",p:146,x:89,y:705,w:579,h:26},
{t:"Déjà je ne vois plus qu'à travers un nuage",p:146,x:89,y:737,w:461,h:26},
{t:"Et le ciel, et l'époux que ma présence outrage ;",p:146,x:89,y:769,w:517,h:26},
{t:"Et la mort, à mes yeux dérobant la clarté,",p:146,x:89,y:800,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Rend au jour, qu'ils souillaient, toute sa pureté.",p:146,x:89,y:832,w:520,h:26},
{t:"PANOPE",p:146,x:89,y:884,w:87,h:26},
{t:"Elle expire, Seigneur.",p:146,x:89,y:935,w:233,h:26},
{t:"THESEE",p:146,x:89,y:987,w:85,h:26},
{t:"D'une action si noire",p:146,x:89,y:1039,w:222,h:26},
{t:"Que ne peut avec elle expirer la mémoire !",p:146,x:89,y:1070,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Allons, de mon erreur, hélas, trop éclaircis,",p:146,x:89,y:1102,w:470,h:26},
{t:"Mêler nos pleurs au sang de mon malheureux fils.",p:146,x:89,y:1134,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Allons de ce cher fils embrasser ce qui reste,",p:146,x:89,y:1165,w:487,h:26},
{t:"1650. Expier la fureur d'un voeu que je déteste.",p:146,x:89,y:1197,w:523,h:26},
{t:"Rendons-lui les honneurs qu'il a trop mérités ;",p:146,x:89,y:1229,w:506,h:26},
{t:"Et pour mieux apaiser ses mânes irrités,",p:146,x:89,y:1260,w:440,h:26},
{t:"144",p:147,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"PHAEDRA",p:147,x:94,y:84,w:104,h:26},
{t:"Each moment’s precious. Theseus,",p:147,x:94,y:135,w:377,h:26},
{t:"Your son was chaste, respectful. I",p:147,x:94,y:167,w:369,h:26},
{t:"it was who cast a hot and lurid eye",p:147,x:94,y:199,w:379,h:26},
{t:"with fire that heaven kindled in my breast.",p:147,x:94,y:230,w:464,h:26},
{t:"Detestable Oenone did the rest.",p:147,x:94,y:262,w:347,h:26},
{t:"She feared him, knowing that your son, my lord",p:147,x:94,y:294,w:523,h:26},
{t:"could tell of guilty passion he abhorred,",p:147,x:94,y:325,w:431,h:26},
{t:"and seeing where infirmities had led",p:147,x:94,y:357,w:394,h:26},
{t:"1630. so rushed to accuse Hippolytus instead.",p:147,x:94,y:389,w:501,h:26},
{t:"She now is punished: fleeing my stern breath",p:147,x:94,y:420,w:496,h:26},
{t:"she found in those quiet waves too soft a death.",p:147,x:94,y:452,w:526,h:26},
{t:"Myself, I would have chosen the swift sword",p:147,x:94,y:484,w:481,h:26},
{t:"but must some explanations now afford",p:147,x:94,y:515,w:432,h:26},
{t:"to you, my lord: unhappiness, remorse that send",p:147,x:94,y:547,w:536,h:26},
{t:"me off in drawn out passage to my end.",p:147,x:94,y:579,w:436,h:26},
{t:"Into my burning veins the poison bores",p:147,x:94,y:610,w:429,h:26},
{t:"that Medea brought with her to Athens’ shores.",p:147,x:94,y:642,w:514,h:26},
{t:"Already it has reached my heart and spills",p:147,x:94,y:674,w:457,h:26},
{t:"1640. a gnawing strangeness there that flames and fills.",p:147,x:94,y:705,w:613,h:26},
{t:"All about me is a haze of pain and guile,",p:147,x:94,y:737,w:437,h:26},
{t:"the heavens and the husband I defile.",p:147,x:94,y:769,w:412,h:26},
{t:"In death these eyes, which can no longer see",p:147,x:94,y:800,w:493,h:26},
{t:"the world, to sun give back their purity.",p:147,x:94,y:832,w:433,h:26},
{t:"PANOPE",p:147,x:94,y:884,w:87,h:26},
{t:"She dies, my lord.",p:147,x:94,y:935,w:199,h:26},
{t:"THESEUS",p:147,x:94,y:987,w:102,h:26},
{t:"Would she also took",p:147,x:94,y:1039,w:218,h:26},
{t:"the memories we have within that look.",p:147,x:94,y:1070,w:432,h:26},
{t:"But come, it’s all too clear where fault has been,",p:147,x:94,y:1102,w:528,h:26},
{t:"let’s throw our tears upon that bloodied scene,",p:147,x:94,y:1134,w:508,h:26},
{t:"embrace our son and kiss what now remains",p:147,x:94,y:1165,w:486,h:26},
{t:"1650. from that dread vow I made, with all its pains.",p:147,x:94,y:1197,w:577,h:26},
{t:"And honouring the merit so well won",p:147,x:94,y:1229,w:400,h:26},
{t:"appease the angry spectre of our son:",p:147,x:94,y:1260,w:415,h:26},
{t:"145",p:148,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Que malgré les complots d'une injuste famille,",p:148,x:89,y:84,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Son amante aujourd'hui me tienne lieu de fille.",p:148,x:89,y:115,w:511,h:26},
{t:"146",p:149,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"I make, as though all treacheries were gone,",p:149,x:94,y:84,w:489,h:26},
{t:"Aricia our daughter from now on.",p:149,x:94,y:115,w:361,h:26},
{t:"147",p:150,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"3. A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATION",p:150,x:89,y:121,w:477,h:37},
{t:"Two strategies are given the translator of Racine’s plays. One is to study",p:150,x:89,y:204,w:790,h:26},
{t:"carefully the language of the plays and English forms into which they",p:150,x:89,y:235,w:752,h:26},
{t:"may be cast, so as to ensure that Racine’s key features are faithfully",p:150,x:89,y:267,w:747,h:26},
{t:"conveyed. The second is to learn from previous translations. I have",p:150,x:89,y:299,w:734,h:26},
{t:"adopted both here.",p:150,x:89,y:330,w:208,h:26},
{t:"3.1. a. Characteristics of Racine’s Phaedra:",p:150,x:89,y:393,w:522,h:30},
{t:"Classicism is an aesthetic attitude deriving from the arts of ancient Greece",p:150,x:89,y:445,w:808,h:26},
{t:"and Rome, specifically an emphasis on simplicity, proportion, and restrained",p:150,x:89,y:477,w:808,h:26},
{t:"emotion. Put very simply, Classicism, Realism and Romanticism all deal with",p:150,x:89,y:509,w:808,h:26},
{t:"the outside world, but Realism shows the world as it is, Romanticism as the",p:150,x:89,y:540,w:808,h:26},
{t:"heart tells us it should be, and Classicism as it would be in some ideal and",p:150,x:89,y:572,w:808,h:26},
{t:"public incarnation. Contemporary literature, by contrast, is commonly a",p:150,x:89,y:604,w:808,h:26},
{t:"retreat into the writer's consciousness — to make autonomous creations",p:150,x:89,y:635,w:808,h:26},
{t:"that incorporate diverse aspects of modern life (Modernism), or free-",p:150,x:89,y:667,w:807,h:26},
{t:"wheeling creations constructed of a language that largely points to itself",p:150,x:89,y:699,w:808,h:26},
{t:"(Postmodernism).",p:150,x:89,y:730,w:195,h:26},
{t:"Classicism stressed simplicity, surface clarity and painstaking craftsmanship.",p:150,x:89,y:782,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Proportion was important, and nothing should be taken to excess.",p:150,x:89,y:814,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Expression was public rather than individual, and was restrained by",p:150,x:89,y:845,w:807,h:26},
{t:"convention and propriety, indeed the language was often elevated: not",p:150,x:89,y:877,w:810,h:26},
{t:"necessarily refined but excluding the humdrum, misshapen and obscene.",p:150,x:89,y:909,w:808,h:26},
{t:"There was also a respect for traditional forms and genres, a building on",p:150,x:89,y:940,w:807,h:26},
{t:"achievements of celebrated authors, and reference to experience more than",p:150,x:89,y:972,w:808,h:26},
{t:"theory.",p:150,x:89,y:1004,w:78,h:26},
{t:"Racine absorbed the attitude of classical authors to their world, in which the",p:150,x:89,y:1055,w:808,h:26},
{t:"gods were both convenient abstractions and living realities. Their reality in",p:150,x:89,y:1087,w:807,h:26},
{t:"story and myth was created in the ritual of their dramatic presentations,",p:150,x:89,y:1119,w:807,h:26},
{t:"and such performances had to be continually repeated. Religion itself",p:150,x:89,y:1150,w:807,h:26},
{t:"became meaningful in such acts — ritual, prayer, theatrical performances,",p:150,x:89,y:1182,w:808,h:26},
{t:"mystical encounters — and was not something that could be extracted from",p:150,x:89,y:1214,w:807,h:26},
{t:"content and tested by logic or empirical experiment.",p:150,x:89,y:1245,w:570,h:26},
{t:"148",p:151,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Just as myths are expressed in a language typically closed and self-",p:151,x:94,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"supporting, not easily transferred from one culture to another, so poetry",p:151,x:94,y:115,w:808,h:26},
{t:"depends on the precise makeup of the symbols employed. Admit the loose",p:151,x:94,y:147,w:808,h:26},
{t:"cynicism of everyday life into the fabric of classical verse and its elevation",p:151,x:94,y:179,w:808,h:26},
{t:"falters. We who expect poetry today to have no boundaries, but encompass",p:151,x:94,y:210,w:807,h:26},
{t:"our most mundane thoughts with idiomatic clarity, may find classical verse",p:151,x:94,y:242,w:808,h:26},
{t:"impossibly elevated, remote and stylized. Racine’s art is not one of",p:151,x:94,y:274,w:808,h:26},
{t:"imagination, but of phrasing, of having the right words in the right places.",p:151,x:94,y:305,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Wisdom begins with calling things by their proper names, and naming is",p:151,x:94,y:337,w:807,h:26},
{t:"important in classical tragedy because individual words are underwritten by",p:151,x:94,y:369,w:808,h:26},
{t:"an ideal, unchanging and public understanding.  Poetry, said Aristotle, is",p:151,x:94,y:400,w:807,h:26},
{t:"superior to history because it uses words in their fuller potential, and",p:151,x:94,y:432,w:808,h:26},
{t:"creates representations more complete and more meaningful than nature",p:151,x:94,y:464,w:808,h:26},
{t:"can give us in the raw.",p:151,x:94,y:495,w:248,h:26},
{t:"Jean Racine’s plays observed Aristotle's supposed unities of place, time and",p:151,x:94,y:547,w:807,h:26},
{t:"action, aiming for power and homogeneity, but where Corneille expressed",p:151,x:94,y:579,w:808,h:26},
{t:"heroic sentiments in noble oratory, Racine's restrained, polished but always",p:151,x:94,y:610,w:808,h:26},
{t:"appropriate language depicted man's ferocious passions, savagery and",p:151,x:94,y:642,w:808,h:26},
{t:"imprudence. Classicism, with its balance and wholeness, was retained, with",p:151,x:94,y:674,w:807,h:26},
{t:"a correct and restricted vocabulary, but given an unforgettable force.",p:151,x:94,y:705,w:753,h:26},
{t:"Racine’s characters were impelled by fierce passions, thwarted only by",p:151,x:94,y:757,w:808,h:26},
{t:"circumstances and the pressing desires of others. As kings, heroes and",p:151,x:94,y:789,w:807,h:26},
{t:"court personages they suffered irreparably from their actions, though in a",p:151,x:94,y:820,w:808,h:26},
{t:"larger setting, remote to us in time and space. Racine depicts human life",p:151,x:94,y:852,w:807,h:26},
{t:"intensified, but also given grandeur and significant by myth and distance. 1",p:151,x:94,y:881,w:808,h:28},
{t:"2 3",p:151,x:94,y:913,w:22,h:17},
{t:"Two important concepts werevraisemblance andbienséance.Vraisemblance",p:151,x:94,y:967,w:809,h:26},
{t:"required plays to be believable: the historical facts could be tampered with,",p:151,x:94,y:999,w:808,h:26},
{t:"but motive, narrative and characters had to be convincing. Racine, for",p:151,x:94,y:1030,w:808,h:26},
{t:"example, adds Aricia, for whom there is no historical precedent. Bienséance",p:151,x:94,y:1062,w:811,h:26},
{t:"required plays to follow the decorum of good society and avoid words of too",p:151,x:94,y:1094,w:806,h:26},
{t:"violent, obscene or mundane a character. Hippolytus, for example, brought",p:151,x:94,y:1125,w:807,h:26},
{t:"up a savage in the woods, speaks like a Louis XIV courtier. 4",p:151,x:94,y:1155,w:658,h:28},
{t:"Racine was not the first French dramatist to portray Phaedre and her guilty",p:151,x:94,y:1209,w:807,h:26},
{t:"love for Hippolytus. There already existed plays by Garnier, La Pinelière,",p:151,x:94,y:1240,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Bidar and Pradon, 5 but Racine overcame the seeming injustice in the story",p:151,x:94,y:1270,w:807,h:28},
{t:"149",p:152,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"by having all characters err in some degree, and be aware of doing so.",p:152,x:89,y:84,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra’s passion is monstrous, as she herself realizes. Theseus gives way",p:152,x:89,y:115,w:808,h:26},
{t:"to rage, and knows he recklessly calls up Neptune’s curse. Hippolytus",p:152,x:89,y:147,w:807,h:26},
{t:"wittingly disobeys his father, and is encouraged by Aricia to propose",p:152,x:89,y:179,w:807,h:26},
{t:"marriage. Oenone’s solicitude for Phaedra exceeds the moral bounds. By",p:152,x:89,y:210,w:807,h:26},
{t:"concentrating the action on the day of Theseus’s return, the play",p:152,x:89,y:242,w:809,h:26},
{t:"reverberates with the characters’ excessive desires and their punishment.",p:152,x:89,y:274,w:803,h:26},
{t:"Also effective is the background Racine evokes, which adds the miraculous",p:152,x:89,y:325,w:808,h:26},
{t:"necessary for the death of Hippolytus. Aricia has a claim on Athens, the city",p:152,x:89,y:357,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Minerva built. Hippolytus is the son of Antiope, queen of the Amazons. The",p:152,x:89,y:389,w:808,h:26},
{t:"opening scene not only foreshadows the political motivation behind events,",p:152,x:89,y:420,w:808,h:26},
{t:"but sets them in an ancient world of the Mediterranean still alive with myths",p:152,x:89,y:452,w:808,h:26},
{t:"and the fabulous monsters that Hippolytus wishes to emulate his father in",p:152,x:89,y:484,w:808,h:26},
{t:"subduing: another of Racine’s resonating ironies.",p:152,x:89,y:515,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Speeches to a confident are a stable of French tragedy, but Racine makes",p:152,x:89,y:567,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Theramenes and Oenone distinct personalities, getting them to play critical",p:152,x:89,y:599,w:808,h:26},
{t:"parts in the story. The loves of Phaedra and Hippolytus run in parallel, both",p:152,x:89,y:630,w:807,h:26},
{t:"emerging from obscurity into the sunlight in a way emphasized by the play",p:152,x:89,y:662,w:807,h:26},
{t:"of light and dark in the verse, but also underlining Phaedra’s predicament, a",p:152,x:89,y:694,w:808,h:26},
{t:"queen suspended between the judging darkness of her father Minos and the",p:152,x:89,y:725,w:808,h:26},
{t:"health-giving radiance of the sun, all members of her bloodline.",p:152,x:89,y:757,w:694,h:26},
{t:"Like most European writers of the time, Racine was a close student of",p:152,x:89,y:809,w:808,h:26},
{t:"rhetoric, the art of controlling an audience. Whole textbooks were written on",p:152,x:89,y:840,w:808,h:26},
{t:"the subject, and its rules governed the way Racine and others crafted their",p:152,x:89,y:872,w:807,h:26},
{t:"poetry, from initial creation",p:152,x:89,y:904,w:312,h:26},
{t:"(inventio), arrangement (dispositio) to the",p:152,x:414,y:904,w:483,h:26},
{t:"words adopted to write or speak in a correct, moving and pleasing manner",p:152,x:89,y:935,w:808,h:26},
{t:"(elocutio). Racine was familiar with a technical terminology now only of",p:152,x:89,y:967,w:807,h:26},
{t:"interest to  scholars, and the organising power of those devices is present",p:152,x:89,y:999,w:808,h:26},
{t:"on every page he wrote. 4",p:152,x:89,y:1028,w:282,h:28},
{t:"French tragedy made much use of periphrases, for emphasis (a trois fois",p:152,x:89,y:1082,w:807,h:26},
{t:"chassé la nuite obscure) or embellishment (la plaine liquide). Epithets came",p:152,x:89,y:1114,w:808,h:26},
{t:"out of stock, ennobling in intent, but at times banal and immaterial (timide,",p:152,x:89,y:1145,w:807,h:26},
{t:"cruel, fatal, etc.) The exclamations used to heighten speech sound",p:152,x:89,y:1177,w:808,h:26},
{t:"unnatural or unconvincing today (Ah! Dieux! Ciel! Quoi! Hélas!).",p:152,x:89,y:1209,w:698,h:26},
{t:"150",p:153,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Racine’s verse was in alexandrines, which are nothing like English blank",p:153,x:94,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"verse or the rhyming couplet, and rather different from everyday spoken",p:153,x:94,y:115,w:808,h:26},
{t:"French. 6 Somewhat simplified, the rules governing the French hexameter",p:153,x:94,y:145,w:808,h:28},
{t:"are as follows. The alexandrine always consists of exactly twelve syllables.",p:153,x:94,y:179,w:807,h:26},
{t:"The only licence allowed the poet concerns the 'double vowels'. There are no",p:153,x:94,y:210,w:808,h:26},
{t:"diphthongs in French, and i/u/ü + vowel may be treated as two separate",p:153,x:94,y:242,w:808,h:26},
{t:"syllables (diaeresis) or as one by pronouncing the double vowel as y +",p:153,x:94,y:274,w:807,h:26},
{t:"vowel (synaeresis). Each syllable of the alexandrine is a sounded vowel. The",p:153,x:94,y:305,w:808,h:26},
{t:"neutral e is not sounded when occurring at the line end, but lengthens the",p:153,x:94,y:337,w:808,h:26},
{t:"preceding vowel/syllable. A similar rule applies to the third person plural",p:153,x:94,y:369,w:807,h:26},
{t:"present tense ending of ent. Lines ending in e or ent are termed feminine.",p:153,x:94,y:400,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Other lines are masculine. Though they may end with the same sound,",p:153,x:94,y:432,w:807,h:26},
{t:"feminine and masculine lines do not rhyme. A feminine line can only rhyme",p:153,x:94,y:464,w:807,h:26},
{t:"with another feminine line, and a masculine line rhyme with a masculine",p:153,x:94,y:495,w:807,h:26},
{t:"one. French classical verse is written in alternating pairs of masculine and",p:153,x:94,y:527,w:808,h:26},
{t:"feminine lines. If an act closes with a masculine line, the following act must",p:153,x:94,y:559,w:808,h:26},
{t:"open with a feminine line, and vice versa.",p:153,x:94,y:590,w:454,h:26},
{t:"Hiatus is avoided in French, by running wherever possible the last",p:153,x:94,y:642,w:808,h:26},
{t:"consonant(s) of the preceding word or syllable into the vowel, by adding a",p:153,x:94,y:674,w:808,h:26},
{t:"letter (a-t-il), or by absorbing the neutral e before aient. The neutral e is",p:153,x:94,y:705,w:807,h:26},
{t:"not sounded in everyday speech (cette semaine is pronounced assèt smèn)",p:153,x:94,y:737,w:808,h:26},
{t:"but is pronounced when occurring in the body of an alexandrine (cette",p:153,x:94,y:769,w:808,h:26},
{t:"semaine becomes sè te se mèn).",p:153,x:94,y:800,w:358,h:26},
{t:"Unlike English, however, where words have an inherent stress pattern",p:153,x:94,y:852,w:809,h:26},
{t:"(bódy, embódiment), French is a syllabic language where the stress falls  on",p:153,x:94,y:884,w:808,h:26},
{t:"the last syllable of any meaningful group of words. In the alexandrine, this",p:153,x:94,y:915,w:808,h:26},
{t:"comes at the end of the line and usually, to a lesser extent, after the sixth",p:153,x:94,y:947,w:808,h:26},
{t:"syllable, which is marked by a caesura. The arrangement can be varied a",p:153,x:94,y:979,w:807,h:26},
{t:"little, and other patterns deployed, but in general the alexandrine is",p:153,x:94,y:1010,w:808,h:26},
{t:"securely end-stopped, making it very different from English blank verse",p:153,x:94,y:1042,w:808,h:26},
{t:"where enjambment or run-on is expected.",p:153,x:94,y:1074,w:460,h:26},
{t:"Rhyme is a match in sounds (phonemes) between words of different",p:153,x:94,y:1125,w:808,h:26},
{t:"meaning, preferably different function as well (verb with noun, etc.) but has",p:153,x:94,y:1157,w:808,h:26},
{t:"more complicated rules in French. We are happy with high/sky, etc., but the",p:153,x:94,y:1189,w:808,h:26},
{t:"French dislike what they call rime pauvre.",p:153,x:94,y:1220,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Rime suffisante requires two",p:153,x:581,y:1220,w:320,h:26},
{t:"sounds or phonemes to match: vowel + consonant or consonant + vowel.",p:153,x:94,y:1252,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Rime riche requires an additional phoneme match, generally consonant +",p:153,x:94,y:1284,w:807,h:26},
{t:"151",p:154,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"vowel + consonant, but is sometimes taken to include assonance earlier in",p:154,x:89,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"the line. And whereas the English detest rime riche, reserving it for comic",p:154,x:89,y:115,w:807,h:26},
{t:"effects, the French admire this extra correspondence. There are also a few",p:154,x:89,y:147,w:808,h:26},
{t:"licences applying, which derive from earlier changes in pronunciation. Under",p:154,x:89,y:179,w:808,h:26},
{t:"rime normande, the terminaler is allowed to rhyme with é. A final s or t can",p:154,x:89,y:210,w:808,h:26},
{t:"rhyme with a 'fossilised e'. And a few words can be spelt in odd ways: pié",p:154,x:89,y:242,w:807,h:26},
{t:"for pied, remord for remords, croi for crois and encoue for encore.",p:154,x:89,y:274,w:723,h:26},
{t:"Racine wrote in a very regular and composed manner: as here in the",p:154,x:89,y:325,w:808,h:26},
{t:"famous Act Four, Scene Six speech in which the ruined queen pours out her",p:154,x:89,y:357,w:808,h:26},
{t:"despair:",p:154,x:89,y:389,w:88,h:26},
{t:"Je crois te voir, cher chant | un su ppli ce nou veau, 4 2 | 3 3",p:154,x:97,y:440,w:800,h:26},
{t:"Toi-mê me de ton sang | de ve nir le bou rreau. 2 4 | 3 3",p:154,x:89,y:472,w:807,h:26},
{t:"   Par ",p:154,x:89,y:504,w:64,h:26},
{t:"do ",p:154,x:165,y:504,w:32,h:26},
{t:"nneUn Dieu ",p:154,x:209,y:504,w:142,h:26},
{t:"cru ",p:154,x:363,y:504,w:40,h:26},
{t:"el ",p:154,x:414,y:504,w:24,h:26},
{t:"| ",p:154,x:451,y:504,w:15,h:26},
{t:"a ",p:154,x:478,y:504,w:19,h:26},
{t:"per ",p:154,x:509,y:504,w:41,h:26},
{t:"du ",p:154,x:562,y:504,w:33,h:26},
{t:"ta ",p:154,x:607,y:504,w:27,h:26},
{t:"fa ",p:154,x:645,y:504,w:26,h:26},
{t:"mille: ",p:154,x:683,y:504,w:67,h:26},
{t:"4 ",p:154,x:763,y:504,w:19,h:26},
{t:"2 ",p:154,x:794,y:504,w:19,h:26},
{t:"| ",p:154,x:825,y:504,w:15,h:26},
{t:"2 ",p:154,x:853,y:504,w:19,h:26},
{t:"4",p:154,x:883,y:504,w:13,h:26},
{t:"   Re co nnais sa veng ean ",p:154,x:89,y:535,w:328,h:26},
{t:"| ",p:154,x:426,y:535,w:16,h:26},
{t:"ceaux ",p:154,x:451,y:535,w:69,h:26},
{t:"fu reurs de ta ",p:154,x:529,y:535,w:175,h:26},
{t:"fille. ",p:154,x:713,y:535,w:52,h:26},
{t:"3 3 ",p:154,x:774,y:535,w:48,h:26},
{t:"| 3 3",p:154,x:831,y:535,w:66,h:26},
{t:"Hé las ! du cri mea ffreux | dont la hon te me suit 2 4 | 4 2",p:154,x:89,y:567,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Ja ",p:154,x:89,y:599,w:30,h:26},
{t:"mais mon ",p:154,x:130,y:599,w:125,h:26},
{t:"tri ",p:154,x:266,y:599,w:31,h:26},
{t:"ste ",p:154,x:308,y:599,w:40,h:26},
{t:"coeur ",p:154,x:359,y:599,w:67,h:26},
{t:"| ",p:154,x:437,y:599,w:17,h:26},
{t:"n'a ",p:154,x:465,y:599,w:40,h:26},
{t:"re ",p:154,x:515,y:599,w:29,h:26},
{t:"cuei ",p:154,x:555,y:599,w:51,h:26},
{t:"lli ",p:154,x:617,y:599,w:25,h:26},
{t:"le ",p:154,x:653,y:599,w:26,h:26},
{t:"fruit. ",p:154,x:690,y:599,w:60,h:26},
{t:"2 4 ",p:154,x:761,y:599,w:53,h:26},
{t:"| ",p:154,x:824,y:599,w:17,h:26},
{t:"4 2",p:154,x:852,y:599,w:45,h:26},
{t:"   Jus qu'a der nier sou pir, | de mal heurs pour sui vie, 3 3 | 3 3",p:154,x:89,y:630,w:808,h:26},
{t:"   Je rends dans les tour ment | su ne pé ni ble vie. 2 4 | 4 2",p:154,x:89,y:662,w:660,h:26},
{t:"What further punishments can you devise",p:154,x:89,y:714,w:454,h:26},
{t:"than butchery in which your bloodline dies?",p:154,x:89,y:745,w:472,h:26},
{t:"Forgive me that I let a god in wild",p:154,x:89,y:777,w:370,h:26},
{t:"1290. reprisal sow her fury through the child.",p:154,x:89,y:809,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Never the once to what it sought for came",p:154,x:89,y:840,w:460,h:26},
{t:"this heart, but sadness only, and to shame.",p:154,x:89,y:872,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra in sighs, with which her path was rife,",p:154,x:89,y:904,w:508,h:26},
{t:"in agonies gives back a painful life.",p:154,x:89,y:935,w:381,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra in fact contains many celebrated lines:",p:154,x:89,y:987,w:516,h:26},
{t:"Cet heureux temps n'est plus. Tout a changé de face",p:154,x:89,y:1039,w:574,h:26},
{t:"Depuis que sur ces bords les Dieux ont envoyé",p:154,x:89,y:1070,w:509,h:26},
{t:"La fille de Minos et de Pasiphaé.",p:154,x:89,y:1102,w:349,h:26},
{t:"Those happy days are gone. All changes here",p:154,x:89,y:1154,w:494,h:26},
{t:"since gods have sent to us across the sea",p:154,x:89,y:1185,w:454,h:26},
{t:"the child of Minos and of Pasiphaë.",p:154,x:89,y:1217,w:378,h:26},
{t:"152",p:155,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Ce n'est plus une ardeur dans mes veines cachée :",p:155,x:94,y:84,w:554,h:26},
{t:"C'est Vénus tout entière à sa proie attachée.",p:155,x:94,y:115,w:484,h:26},
{t:"No longer slumbering love was kept at bay",p:155,x:94,y:167,w:466,h:26},
{t:"but Venus wholly fastened on her prey.",p:155,x:94,y:199,w:428,h:26},
{t:"But it is the verse as a whole that gives the lines their magic. Far more than",p:155,x:94,y:250,w:807,h:26},
{t:"his contemporaries, Racine varied the alexandrine to create a range of",p:155,x:94,y:282,w:809,h:26},
{t:"effects. Short lines conveying shock:",p:155,x:94,y:314,w:400,h:26},
{t:"O désespoir ! ô crime ! ô déplorable race !",p:155,x:94,y:365,w:461,h:26},
{t:"Voyage infortuné ! Rivage malheureux,",p:155,x:94,y:397,w:426,h:26},
{t:"Fallait-il approcher de tes bords dangereux ?",p:155,x:94,y:429,w:487,h:26},
{t:"An offhand manner as when the nervous Hippolytus starts wooing Aricia:",p:155,x:94,y:480,w:795,h:26},
{t:"Madame, avant que de partir,",p:155,x:94,y:532,w:323,h:26},
{t:"J'ai cru de votre sort devoir vous avertit.",p:155,x:94,y:564,w:443,h:26},
{t:"Mon père ne vit plus.",p:155,x:94,y:595,w:229,h:26},
{t:"The tender correctness of Aricia’s reply:",p:155,x:94,y:647,w:434,h:26},
{t:"Mais cet Empire enfin si grand, si glorieux,",p:155,x:94,y:699,w:464,h:26},
{t:"N'est pas de vos présents le plus cher à mes yeux.",p:155,x:94,y:730,w:552,h:26},
{t:"Theseus’s anger expressed in heavy epithets:",p:155,x:94,y:782,w:496,h:26},
{t:"Monstre, qu'a trop longtemps épargné le tonnerre,",p:155,x:94,y:834,w:552,h:26},
{t:"Reste impur des brigands dont j'ai purgé la terre !",p:155,x:94,y:865,w:547,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra’s dream-like manner as she imagines Hippolytus killing the",p:155,x:94,y:917,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Minotaur:",p:155,x:94,y:949,w:105,h:26},
{t:"Oui, Prince, je languis, je brûle pour Thésée.",p:155,x:94,y:1000,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Je l'aime, non point tel que l'ont vu les enfers,",p:155,x:94,y:1032,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Volage adorateur de mille objets divers,",p:155,x:94,y:1064,w:435,h:26},
{t:"Qui va du Dieu des morts déshonorer la couche ;",p:155,x:94,y:1095,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Mais fidèle, mais fier, et même un peu farouche,",p:155,x:94,y:1127,w:529,h:26},
{t:"Charmant, jeune, traînant tous les coeurs après soi,",p:155,x:94,y:1159,w:566,h:26},
{t:"Tel qu'on dépeint nos Dieux, ou tel que je vous voi.",p:155,x:94,y:1190,w:561,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra’s horror at her guilt:",p:155,x:94,y:1242,w:317,h:26},
{t:"153",p:156,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Dans mes jaloux transports je le veux implorer.",p:156,x:89,y:84,w:519,h:26},
{t:"Que fais-je ? Où ma raison va-t-elle s'égarer ?",p:156,x:89,y:115,w:506,h:26},
{t:"Moi jalouse ! Et Thésée est celui que j'implore !",p:156,x:89,y:147,w:515,h:26},
{t:"Mon époux est vivant, et moi je brûle encore !",p:156,x:89,y:179,w:505,h:26},
{t:"The broken, pell-mell horror of Hippolytus’s death:",p:156,x:89,y:230,w:554,h:26},
{t:"J'ai vu, Seigneur, j'ai vu votre malheureux fils",p:156,x:89,y:282,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Traîné par les chevaux que sa main a nourris.",p:156,x:89,y:314,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Il veut les rappeler, et sa voix les effraie ;",p:156,x:89,y:345,w:458,h:26},
{t:"Ils courent. Tout son corps n'est bientôt qu'une plaie.",p:156,x:89,y:377,w:582,h:26},
{t:"De nos cris douloureux la plaine retentit.",p:156,x:89,y:409,w:443,h:26},
{t:"Then there is the flowing unity of the tirades, achieved by rhetorical",p:156,x:89,y:460,w:739,h:26},
{t:"devices that make the couplets part of a larger and overstepping",p:156,x:89,y:492,w:705,h:26},
{t:"dispositio, as here in Act Two, Scene One, Aricia speaking: 5",p:156,x:89,y:521,w:656,h:28},
{t:"exultant exclamation",p:156,x:89,y:575,w:226,h:26},
{t:"415. Que mon coeur, chère Ismène, écoute avidement",p:156,x:89,y:607,w:596,h:26},
{t:"Un discours qui peut-être a peu de fondement !",p:156,x:89,y:639,w:519,h:26},
{t:"appeal for sympathy",p:156,x:89,y:690,w:223,h:26},
{t:"O toi qui me connais, te semblait-il croyable",p:156,x:89,y:722,w:480,h:26},
{t:"Que le triste jouet d'un sort impitoyable,",p:156,x:89,y:754,w:442,h:26},
{t:"Un coeur toujours nourri d'amertume et de pleurs,",p:156,x:89,y:785,w:551,h:26},
{t:"rhetorical question",p:156,x:89,y:837,w:202,h:26},
{t:"420. Dût connaître l'amour et ses folles douleurs ?",p:156,x:89,y:869,w:549,h:26},
{t:"dynastic background",p:156,x:89,y:920,w:224,h:26},
{t:"Reste du sang d'un roi, noble fils de la terre,",p:156,x:89,y:952,w:486,h:26},
{t:"Je suis seule échappée aux fureurs de la guerre.",p:156,x:89,y:984,w:526,h:26},
{t:"J'ai perdu dans la fleur de leur jeune saison,",p:156,x:89,y:1015,w:482,h:26},
{t:"Six frères, quel espoir d'une illustre maison !",p:156,x:89,y:1047,w:488,h:26},
{t:"epic diction",p:156,x:89,y:1099,w:122,h:26},
{t:"Le fer moissonna tout, et la terre humectée",p:156,x:89,y:1130,w:475,h:26},
{t:"But à regret le sang des neveux d'Erechtée.",p:156,x:89,y:1162,w:476,h:26},
{t:"enmity of Theseus explained",p:156,x:89,y:1214,w:311,h:26},
{t:"Tu sais, depuis leur mort, quelle sévère loi",p:156,x:89,y:1245,w:463,h:26},
{t:"Défend à tous les Grecs de soupirer pour moi :",p:156,x:89,y:1277,w:510,h:26},
{t:"154",p:157,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"On craint que de la soeur les flammes téméraires",p:157,x:94,y:84,w:537,h:26},
{t:"430. Ne raniment un jour la cendre de ses frères.",p:157,x:94,y:115,w:539,h:26},
{t:"Mais tu sais bien aussi de quel oeil dédaigneux",p:157,x:94,y:147,w:508,h:26},
{t:"Je regardais ce soin d'un vainqueur soupçonneux.",p:157,x:94,y:179,w:542,h:26},
{t:"despising mere sexual love",p:157,x:94,y:230,w:294,h:26},
{t:"Tu sais que de tout temps à l'amour opposée,",p:157,x:94,y:262,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Je rendais souvent grâce à l'injuste Thésée",p:157,x:94,y:294,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Dont l'heureuse rigueur secondait mes mépris.",p:157,x:94,y:325,w:508,h:26},
{t:"seeing Hippolytus: fulcrum of speech",p:157,x:94,y:377,w:403,h:26},
{t:"Mes yeux alors, mes yeux n'avaient pas vu son fils.",p:157,x:94,y:409,w:560,h:26},
{t:"change to positive note",p:157,x:94,y:472,w:254,h:26},
{t:"Non que par les yeux seuls, lâchement enchantée,",p:157,x:94,y:504,w:549,h:26},
{t:"J'aime en lui sa beauté, sa grâce tant vantée,",p:157,x:94,y:535,w:496,h:26},
{t:"Présents dont la nature a voulu l'honorer,",p:157,x:94,y:567,w:452,h:26},
{t:"440. Qu'il méprise lui-même, et qu'il semble ignorer.",p:157,x:94,y:599,w:578,h:26},
{t:"comparing her feelings to those of Phaedra for Theseus",p:157,x:94,y:650,w:603,h:26},
{t:"J'aime, je prise en lui de plus nobles richesses,",p:157,x:94,y:682,w:511,h:26},
{t:"Les vertus de son père, et non point les faiblesses.",p:157,x:94,y:714,w:552,h:26},
{t:"J'aime, je l'avoûrai, cet orgueil généreux",p:157,x:94,y:745,w:443,h:26},
{t:"Qui n'a jamais fléchi sous le joug amoureux.",p:157,x:94,y:777,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Phèdre en vain s'honorait des soupirs de Thésée :",p:157,x:94,y:809,w:543,h:26},
{t:"Pour moi, je suis plus fière, et fuis la gloire; aisée",p:157,x:94,y:840,w:541,h:26},
{t:"D'arracher un hommage à mille autres offert,",p:157,x:94,y:872,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Et d'entrer dans un coeur de toutes parts ouvert.",p:157,x:94,y:904,w:535,h:26},
{t:"her superiority to Phaedra",p:157,x:94,y:955,w:284,h:26},
{t:"Mais de faire fléchir un courage inflexible,",p:157,x:94,y:987,w:453,h:26},
{t:"450. De porter la douleur dans une âme insensible,",p:157,x:94,y:1019,w:558,h:26},
{t:"D'enchaîner un captif de ses fers étonné,",p:157,x:94,y:1050,w:445,h:26},
{t:"Contre un joug qui lui plaît vainement mutiné ;",p:157,x:94,y:1082,w:513,h:26},
{t:"C'est là ce que je veux, c'est là ce qui m'irrite.",p:157,x:94,y:1114,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Hercule à désarmer coûtait moins qu'Hippolyte,",p:157,x:94,y:1145,w:518,h:26},
{t:"Et vaincu plus souvent, et plus tôt surmonté,",p:157,x:94,y:1177,w:490,h:26},
{t:"Préparait moins de gloire; aux yeux qui l'ont dompté.",p:157,x:94,y:1209,w:583,h:26},
{t:"155",p:158,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"return to present circumstances",p:158,x:89,y:84,w:346,h:26},
{t:"Mais, chère Ismène, hélas ! quelle est mon impudence !",p:158,x:89,y:115,w:610,h:26},
{t:"On ne m'opposera que trop de résistance.",p:158,x:89,y:147,w:457,h:26},
{t:"Tu m'entendras peut-être, humble dans mon ennui,",p:158,x:89,y:179,w:564,h:26},
{t:"460. Gémir du même orgueil que j'admire aujourd'hui.",p:158,x:89,y:210,w:597,h:26},
{t:"Hippolyte aimerait ? Par quel bonheur extrême",p:158,x:89,y:242,w:510,h:26},
{t:"Aurais-je pu fléchir...",p:158,x:89,y:274,w:230,h:26},
{t:"Finally there is verse texture itself, with its ever-varying pace modulated by",p:158,x:89,y:325,w:807,h:26},
{t:"subtle assonance and consonant clusters. In Phaedra, Racine has moved",p:158,x:89,y:357,w:807,h:26},
{t:"beyond the grand effects of his earlier verse and writes something closely",p:158,x:89,y:389,w:807,h:26},
{t:"apt, resonant and pleasing. The play opens with a line first compressed with",p:158,x:89,y:420,w:808,h:26},
{t:"the nasal dessein and en, is then driven on and opened with pris and pars,",p:158,x:89,y:452,w:807,h:26},
{t:"and then partially closed with the mène  of Théramène.",p:158,x:89,y:484,w:603,h:26},
{t:"Le dessein en est pris, je pars, cher Théramène,",p:158,x:89,y:535,w:526,h:26},
{t:"The next line is brisker and more businesslike with its alliteration on t and",p:158,x:89,y:587,w:808,h:26},
{t:"assonance between séjour and Trézène:",p:158,x:89,y:619,w:437,h:26},
{t:"Et quitte le séjour de l'aimable Trézène.",p:158,x:89,y:670,w:434,h:26},
{t:"The next line sounds a key element in the play with doute mortel, and",p:158,x:89,y:722,w:808,h:26},
{t:"echoes the unease of Hippolytus with je suis agité.",p:158,x:89,y:754,w:552,h:26},
{t:"Dans le doute mortel où je suis agité,",p:158,x:89,y:805,w:409,h:26},
{t:"And so on, for hundreds of lines with a variety that will be apparent to any",p:158,x:89,y:857,w:808,h:26},
{t:"reader of the original.",p:158,x:89,y:889,w:236,h:26},
{t:"3.1.b Characteristics of English Dramatic Verse",p:158,x:89,y:940,w:512,h:26},
{t:"At its most basic, two problems face the translator: that of creating in",p:158,x:89,y:992,w:809,h:26},
{t:"English the equivalent of the French hexameter, and that of making it",p:158,x:89,y:1024,w:807,h:26},
{t:"engaging to a modern audience.",p:158,x:89,y:1055,w:352,h:26},
{t:"The first may be approached by seeing what contemporary English poets",p:158,x:89,y:1107,w:808,h:26},
{t:"were writing for the stage. The most talented was John Dryden (1631-",p:158,x:89,y:1139,w:807,h:26},
{t:"1700), whose best-known speech comes from Aureng-Zebe: 7",p:158,x:89,y:1168,w:677,h:28},
{t:"When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat;",p:158,x:89,y:1222,w:399,h:26},
{t:"Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit;",p:158,x:89,y:1254,w:488,h:26},
{t:"156",p:159,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Trust on, and think to morrow will repay:",p:159,x:94,y:84,w:449,h:26},
{t:"To morrow's falser than the former day;",p:159,x:94,y:115,w:437,h:26},
{t:"Lies worse; and while it says, We shall be blest",p:159,x:94,y:147,w:512,h:26},
{t:"With some new joys, cuts off what we possest.",p:159,x:94,y:179,w:511,h:26},
{t:"Strange couzenage! none would live past years again,",p:159,x:94,y:210,w:587,h:26},
{t:"Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain;",p:159,x:94,y:242,w:450,h:26},
{t:"And, from the dregs of Life, think to receive",p:159,x:94,y:274,w:478,h:26},
{t:"What the first sprightly running could not give.",p:159,x:94,y:305,w:509,h:26},
{t:"I'm tir'd with waiting for this Chymic Gold,",p:159,x:94,y:337,w:462,h:26},
{t:"Which fools us young, and beggars us when old. (Aureng-Zebe, IV. i)",p:159,x:94,y:369,w:757,h:26},
{t:"The antitheses and end-stopped lines make for epigrammatic neatness, but",p:159,x:94,y:420,w:808,h:26},
{t:"hardly fervour. Indeed, the general run of Dryden’s dramatic writing is a",p:159,x:94,y:452,w:808,h:26},
{t:"good deal more dutiful and flat-footed. Aureng-Zebe starts (Arimant",p:159,x:94,y:484,w:808,h:26},
{t:"speaking): 8",p:159,x:94,y:513,w:132,h:28},
{t:"Heav'n seems the Empire of the East to lay",p:159,x:94,y:567,w:471,h:26},
{t:"On the success of this important day:",p:159,x:94,y:599,w:409,h:26},
{t:"Their Arms are to the last decision bent,",p:159,x:94,y:630,w:438,h:26},
{t:"And Fortune labours with the vast event:",p:159,x:94,y:662,w:447,h:26},
{t:"She now has in her hand the greatest stake,",p:159,x:94,y:694,w:482,h:26},
{t:"Which for contending Monarchs she can make.",p:159,x:94,y:725,w:507,h:26},
{t:"What e'r can urge ambitious Youth to sight,",p:159,x:94,y:757,w:474,h:26},
{t:"She pompously displays before their sight:",p:159,x:94,y:789,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Laws, Empire, All permitted to the Sword,",p:159,x:94,y:820,w:456,h:26},
{t:"And Fate could ne'r an ampler Scene afford. (Aureng-Zebe, I. i)",p:159,x:94,y:852,w:703,h:26},
{t:"Dryden is better in blank verse: some of the more memorable lines in All",p:159,x:94,y:904,w:796,h:26},
{t:"for Love: 9",p:159,x:94,y:933,w:114,h:28},
{t:"Antony. They are enough.",p:159,x:94,y:987,w:282,h:26},
{t:"We’ll not divide our stars; but, side by side.",p:159,x:94,y:1019,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Fight emulous, and with malicious eyes",p:159,x:94,y:1050,w:428,h:26},
{t:"Survey each other’s acts: So every death",p:159,x:94,y:1082,w:450,h:26},
{t:"Thou giv’st, I’ll take on me, as a just debt,",p:159,x:94,y:1114,w:465,h:26},
{t:"And pay thee back a soul.",p:159,x:94,y:1145,w:282,h:26},
{t:"Ventidious. Now you shall see I love you. Not a word",p:159,x:94,y:1197,w:575,h:26},
{t:"Of chiding more. By my few hours of life,",p:159,x:94,y:1229,w:448,h:26},
{t:"I am so pleased with this brave Roman fate,",p:159,x:94,y:1260,w:482,h:26},
{t:"157",p:160,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"That I would not be Cæsar, to outlive you.",p:160,x:89,y:84,w:462,h:26},
{t:"When we put off this flesh, and mount together,",p:160,x:89,y:115,w:525,h:26},
{t:"I shall be shown to all the ethereal crowd,—",p:160,x:89,y:147,w:479,h:26},
{t:"Lo, this is he who died with Antony!",p:160,x:89,y:179,w:390,h:26},
{t:"Antony. Who knows, but we may pierce through all their troops,",p:160,x:89,y:230,w:699,h:26},
{t:"And reach my veterans yet? ’tis worth the ’tempting,",p:160,x:89,y:262,w:575,h:26},
{t:"To o’erleap this gulf of fate,",p:160,x:89,y:294,w:301,h:26},
{t:"And leave our wandering destinies behind. (All for Love, V)",p:160,x:89,y:325,w:643,h:26},
{t:"More alive, but nothing like the formal politeness of Racine. Dryden’s",p:160,x:89,y:377,w:807,h:26},
{t:"occasional quatrains were smoother, but also slower and more charming",p:160,x:89,y:409,w:808,h:26},
{t:"than Racine’s repressed violence: here in The Indian Emperor: 10",p:160,x:89,y:438,w:707,h:28},
{t:"Cydara. Thick breath, quick pulse, and heaving of my heart,",p:160,x:89,y:492,w:655,h:26},
{t:"All signs of some unwonted change appear:",p:160,x:89,y:524,w:476,h:26},
{t:"I find myself unwilling to depart,",p:160,x:89,y:555,w:355,h:26},
{t:"And yet I know not why I would be here.",p:160,x:89,y:587,w:446,h:26},
{t:"Stranger, you raise such torments in my breast,",p:160,x:89,y:619,w:524,h:26},
{t:"That when I go, (if I must go again)",p:160,x:89,y:650,w:393,h:26},
{t:"I'll tell my father you have robbed my rest,",p:160,x:89,y:682,w:470,h:26},
{t:"And to him of your injuries complain.",p:160,x:89,y:714,w:405,h:26},
{t:"Cortez. Unknown, I swear, those wrongs were which I wrought,",p:160,x:89,y:777,w:693,h:26},
{t:"But my complaints will much more just appear,",p:160,x:89,y:809,w:516,h:26},
{t:"Who from another world my freedom brought,",p:160,x:89,y:840,w:505,h:26},
{t:"And to your conquering eyes have lost it here. (The Indian Emperor, I. ii)",p:160,x:89,y:872,w:800,h:26},
{t:"Blank verse may therefore seem the preferred medium, being the most",p:160,x:89,y:924,w:807,h:26},
{t:"compact and flexible of verse forms, capable of expressing the full range of",p:160,x:89,y:955,w:808,h:26},
{t:"passion but also providing a pleasing approximation to everyday speech.",p:160,x:89,y:987,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Indeed, so easy to write is blank verse that it needs constraints, challenges",p:160,x:89,y:1019,w:807,h:26},
{t:"and constant melodic invention if it is not to become flat and merely correct.",p:160,x:89,y:1050,w:806,h:26},
{t:"Such variations may be decorative, serving the beauty of expression,  or",p:160,x:89,y:1082,w:808,h:26},
{t:"more dramatic. In the plays of Shakespeare’s middle period —",p:160,x:89,y:1114,w:727,h:26},
{t:"Love’s",p:160,x:829,y:1114,w:67,h:26},
{t:"Labour Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, A Midsummer’ Night’s Dream,",p:160,x:89,y:1145,w:808,h:26},
{t:"The Merchant of Venice — the verse often stands apart from the narrative,",p:160,x:89,y:1177,w:808,h:26},
{t:"halting the action while players and audience respond to the poetry:",p:160,x:89,y:1209,w:744,h:26},
{t:"158",p:161,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"These are the forgeries of jealousy:",p:161,x:94,y:84,w:387,h:26},
{t:"And never, since the middle summer’s spring,",p:161,x:94,y:115,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead,",p:161,x:94,y:147,w:431,h:26},
{t:"By paved fountain or by rushy brook,",p:161,x:94,y:179,w:406,h:26},
{t:"Or in the beached margent of the sea,",p:161,x:94,y:210,w:416,h:26},
{t:"But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport. (Midsummer’ Night’s",p:161,x:94,y:242,w:777,h:26},
{t:"Dream, II. i)",p:161,x:94,y:274,w:137,h:26},
{t:"Such lines remind us of the Sonnets, here beginning to flow on in an",p:161,x:94,y:325,w:808,h:26},
{t:"approximation to natural speech.",p:161,x:94,y:357,w:368,h:26},
{t:"11 By the tragedies, the verse is much",p:161,x:473,y:355,w:428,h:28},
{t:"more made by phrases serving dramatic needs, where the poetry, just as",p:161,x:94,y:389,w:807,h:26},
{t:"beautiful, echoes and supports the action:",p:161,x:94,y:420,w:459,h:26},
{t:"The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord!",p:161,x:94,y:472,w:462,h:26},
{t:"O, wither'd is the garland of the war,",p:161,x:94,y:504,w:402,h:26},
{t:"The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls",p:161,x:94,y:535,w:516,h:26},
{t:"Are level now with men; the odds is gone,",p:161,x:94,y:567,w:460,h:26},
{t:"And there is nothing left remarkable",p:161,x:94,y:599,w:393,h:26},
{t:"Beneath the visiting moon. (Antony and Cleopatra, IV xv)",p:161,x:94,y:630,w:629,h:26},
{t:"The cost is in the smoothness: the verse is episodic and works by the",p:161,x:94,y:682,w:809,h:26},
{t:"accumulation of brilliant phrases, rather than by Racine’s method, which is",p:161,x:94,y:714,w:808,h:26},
{t:"by the insistent weight of closely modelled logic.",p:161,x:94,y:745,w:528,h:26},
{t:"Shakespeare obtained the dramatic effectiveness in his later works by",p:161,x:94,y:797,w:808,h:26},
{t:"thickening the metaphors, beginning sentences in midline, adding",p:161,x:94,y:829,w:807,h:26},
{t:"parenthetical phrases, and replacing the smooth correctness of verse by a",p:161,x:94,y:860,w:809,h:26},
{t:"complicated but effective series of rhythmic fragments.",p:161,x:94,y:892,w:627,h:26},
{t:"12 13 Characters",p:161,x:733,y:890,w:169,h:28},
{t:"appear inconsequentially, adding to the tension and richness of the",p:161,x:94,y:924,w:810,h:26},
{t:"narrative, but also stand as living personages, not cogs in the machinery of",p:161,x:94,y:955,w:808,h:26},
{t:"plot. Racine’s work, by contrast, is m uch more controlled and predetermined.",p:161,x:94,y:987,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Characters appear on cue to say eloquently what is necessary, but hardly a",p:161,x:94,y:1019,w:808,h:26},
{t:"word more. No speech or character can be dispensed with, and all interlock",p:161,x:94,y:1050,w:807,h:26},
{t:"to become an overwhelming force. Content does not overf low the boundaries",p:161,x:94,y:1082,w:810,h:26},
{t:"of the hexameter, but Racine points his meaning by rhetoric and subtle",p:161,x:94,y:1114,w:807,h:26},
{t:"alterations in the fabric of the lines. He changes the word order, adds",p:161,x:94,y:1145,w:807,h:26},
{t:"interjections, uses the tu form or extreme simplicity at",p:161,x:94,y:1177,w:627,h:26},
{t:"key points. He",p:161,x:737,y:1177,w:164,h:26},
{t:"obtains significance by the simplest means, though a deep and mordant",p:161,x:94,y:1209,w:808,h:26},
{t:"irony is never far away.",p:161,x:94,y:1240,w:257,h:26},
{t:"159",p:162,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"There is no reason why a smoothly turned blank verse should not cope",p:162,x:89,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"admirably with these features, and John Cairncross has indeed written",p:162,x:89,y:115,w:808,h:26},
{t:"such: 14",p:162,x:93,y:145,w:82,h:28},
{t:"269. My malady goes further back. I scarce",p:162,x:89,y:199,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Was bound by marriage to Aegeus’ son;",p:162,x:89,y:230,w:436,h:26},
{t:"My peace of mind, my happiness seemed sure.",p:162,x:89,y:262,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Athens revealed to me my haughty foe.",p:162,x:89,y:294,w:432,h:26},
{t:"As I beheld, I reddened, I turned pale.",p:162,x:89,y:325,w:421,h:26},
{t:"A tempest raged in my distracted mind.",p:162,x:89,y:357,w:433,h:26},
{t:"My eyes no longer saw. I could not speak.",p:162,x:89,y:389,w:459,h:26},
{t:"I felt my body freezing, burning; knew",p:162,x:89,y:420,w:421,h:26},
{t:"Venus was on me with her dreaded flames,",p:162,x:89,y:452,w:470,h:26},
{t:"The fatal torments of a race she loathes.",p:162,x:89,y:484,w:441,h:26},
{t:"Here as elsewhere, Cairncross’s scrupulous attention to the meaning has",p:162,x:89,y:535,w:808,h:26},
{t:"created rather static verse, but that can be remedied by giving the lines the",p:162,x:89,y:567,w:808,h:26},
{t:"power to flow on more:",p:162,x:89,y:599,w:255,h:26},
{t:"269. That ill goes further back, when first I vowed",p:162,x:89,y:650,w:545,h:26},
{t:"my laws of hymen to the son of Aegeus,",p:162,x:89,y:682,w:439,h:26},
{t:"Secure in happiness and peace of mind",p:162,x:89,y:714,w:426,h:26},
{t:"I met in Athens my contemptuous foe.",p:162,x:89,y:745,w:420,h:26},
{t:"I saw him, coloured, at the sight grew pale,",p:162,x:89,y:777,w:476,h:26},
{t:"my soul rose fluttering but was lost.",p:162,x:89,y:809,w:393,h:26},
{t:"The daylight blinded and I could not speak",p:162,x:89,y:840,w:464,h:26},
{t:"but knew immediately in fire and ice",p:162,x:89,y:872,w:396,h:26},
{t:"that Venus was with me and with powers",p:162,x:89,y:904,w:447,h:26},
{t:"to goad the blood she loathes with fierce desires.",p:162,x:89,y:935,w:536,h:26},
{t:"But if we now add rhyme, their whole character changes, becoming much",p:162,x:89,y:987,w:808,h:26},
{t:"more shaped and incisive:",p:162,x:89,y:1019,w:286,h:26},
{t:"269. My ill goes further back, but was begun",p:162,x:89,y:1070,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Once more in wedding vows to Aegeus' son.",p:162,x:89,y:1102,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Fulfilled in happiness a bride should know,",p:162,x:89,y:1134,w:461,h:26},
{t:"I met in Athens my contemptuous foe.",p:162,x:89,y:1165,w:420,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus I saw, and blushed, grew pale,",p:162,x:89,y:1197,w:457,h:26},
{t:"felt soul in agitation rise and fail.",p:162,x:89,y:1229,w:358,h:26},
{t:"My veins ran fire and ice, and that physique",p:162,x:89,y:1260,w:479,h:26},
{t:"160",p:163,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"rained daylight at me, and I could not speak,",p:163,x:94,y:84,w:492,h:26},
{t:"but saw then Venus in her full-clothed fire",p:163,x:94,y:115,w:457,h:26},
{t:"to goad the blood she loathes with fierce desire.",p:163,x:94,y:147,w:525,h:26},
{t:"The truth, I think, is that Dryden, for all the fame it brought him, was not at",p:163,x:94,y:199,w:808,h:26},
{t:"home on the stage, and so did not exploit heroic couplets sufficiently. In",p:163,x:94,y:230,w:807,h:26},
{t:"satire he made them much more effective:",p:163,x:94,y:262,w:466,h:26},
{t:"A man so various that he seemed to be",p:163,x:94,y:314,w:428,h:26},
{t:"Not one but all mankind's epitome.",p:163,x:94,y:345,w:382,h:26},
{t:"Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong;",p:163,x:94,y:377,w:413,h:26},
{t:"Was everything in starts and nothing long:",p:163,x:94,y:409,w:465,h:26},
{t:"But, in the course of one revolving moon,",p:163,x:94,y:440,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Was chemist, statesman, fiddler and buffoon. (Absolom and Achitophel)",p:163,x:94,y:472,w:784,h:26},
{t:"Such vigorous, varied and intelligent verse reappears with Alexander Pope.",p:163,x:94,y:524,w:807,h:26},
{t:"He did not write for the stage, but again achieved a conversational ease in",p:163,x:94,y:555,w:807,h:26},
{t:"satire:",p:163,x:94,y:587,w:70,h:26},
{t:"Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said:",p:163,x:94,y:639,w:522,h:26},
{t:"Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.",p:163,x:94,y:670,w:467,h:26},
{t:"The Dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt,",p:163,x:94,y:702,w:455,h:26},
{t:"All Bedlam, or Parnassus, is let out:",p:163,x:94,y:734,w:390,h:26},
{t:"Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand,",p:163,x:94,y:765,w:463,h:26},
{t:"They rave, recite, and madden round the land; (Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot)",p:163,x:94,y:797,w:796,h:26},
{t:"It’s an ease achieved by incessant practice, and so worth noting that",p:163,x:94,y:849,w:810,h:26},
{t:"couplets are a form that can be continually improved. Alexander Pope’s lines",p:163,x:94,y:880,w:808,h:26},
{t:"13-14 of The Rape of the Lock in the 1717 version: 15",p:163,x:94,y:910,w:583,h:28},
{t:"Sol through white curtains shot a tim’rous ray,",p:163,x:94,y:964,w:507,h:26},
{t:"And op’d those eyes that must eclipse the day",p:163,x:94,y:995,w:503,h:26},
{t:"began in the awkward 1712 rendering:",p:163,x:94,y:1047,w:424,h:26},
{t:"Sol thro’ white Curtains did his Beams display",p:163,x:94,y:1099,w:498,h:26},
{t:"And op’d those Eyes which brighter shine than they",p:163,x:94,y:1130,w:560,h:26},
{t:"In summary, heroic couplets should be able to reproduce the neatness,",p:163,x:94,y:1182,w:808,h:26},
{t:"surface politeness, repressed power and eloquence of Racine, given some",p:163,x:94,y:1214,w:807,h:26},
{t:"skill and a good deal of work.",p:163,x:94,y:1245,w:320,h:26},
{t:"161",p:164,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"What of free verse, the reigning orthodoxy of today?",p:164,x:89,y:84,w:598,h:26},
{t:"16 We look at Ted",p:164,x:698,y:81,w:199,h:28},
{t:"Hughes’s rendering below, but here is a typical excerpt. 17",p:164,x:89,y:113,w:633,h:28},
{t:"I had to confront the one I banished.",p:164,x:89,y:167,w:402,h:26},
{t:"The first sight of him ripped my wounds wide open.",p:164,x:89,y:199,w:561,h:26},
{t:"No longer a fever in my veins,",p:164,x:89,y:230,w:329,h:26},
{t:"Venus has fastened on me like a tiger.",p:164,x:89,y:262,w:418,h:26},
{t:"I know my guilt and it terrifies me.",p:164,x:89,y:294,w:380,h:26},
{t:"It’s difficult to imagine a queen speaking like a schoolgirl’s diary excerpts,",p:164,x:89,y:345,w:808,h:26},
{t:"and it’s certainly not Racine’s style.",p:164,x:89,y:377,w:385,h:26},
{t:"303. J'ai revu l'ennemi que j'avais éloigné :",p:164,x:89,y:429,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Ma blessure trop vive a aussitôt saigné,",p:164,x:89,y:460,w:431,h:26},
{t:"Ce n'est plus une ardeur dans mes veines cachée :",p:164,x:89,y:492,w:554,h:26},
{t:"C'est Vénus tout entière à sa proie attachée.",p:164,x:89,y:524,w:484,h:26},
{t:"J'ai conçu pour mon crime une juste terreur ;",p:164,x:89,y:555,w:495,h:26},
{t:"J'ai pris la vie en haine, et ma flamme en horreur.",p:164,x:89,y:587,w:546,h:26},
{t:"That might be better rendered in heroic couplets as:",p:164,x:89,y:639,w:570,h:26},
{t:"I saw my exiled enemy and knew",p:164,x:89,y:690,w:364,h:26},
{t:"the unhealed wound would start to flood anew.",p:164,x:89,y:722,w:512,h:26},
{t:"No longer in my veins was love at bay",p:164,x:89,y:754,w:415,h:26},
{t:"but Venus wholly fastened on her prey.",p:164,x:89,y:785,w:427,h:26},
{t:"I see how criminal is this foul state;",p:164,x:89,y:817,w:390,h:26},
{t:"both life and passion I abominate.",p:164,x:89,y:849,w:372,h:26},
{t:"Hughes’s language is real and immediate, a living force, but it’s also coarse",p:164,x:89,y:900,w:808,h:26},
{t:"and clumsy, far from the dignity and eloquence a French court expected of",p:164,x:89,y:932,w:807,h:26},
{t:"the classics. Individually, the lines lack shape, autonomy or idiomatic",p:164,x:89,y:964,w:807,h:26},
{t:"exactness. No doubt much poetry today is similar, not far from dislocated",p:164,x:89,y:995,w:808,h:26},
{t:"prose, but free verse at its best achieves a rhythmical and idiomatic",p:164,x:89,y:1027,w:808,h:26},
{t:"exactness, resonant with everyday meanings of words.",p:164,x:89,y:1059,w:598,h:26},
{t:"Unfortunately, Racine does not use words with everyday associations, quite",p:164,x:89,y:1110,w:808,h:26},
{t:"the opposite. He exemplifies the old adage that things can be said in verse",p:164,x:89,y:1142,w:809,h:26},
{t:"that cannot be said in prose, because the verse structure itself adds",p:164,x:89,y:1174,w:809,h:26},
{t:"refinement to the meaning. To obtain that refinement, however, the prose",p:164,x:89,y:1205,w:807,h:26},
{t:"sense of words has to be left behind, or winnowed from its contemporary",p:164,x:89,y:1237,w:807,h:26},
{t:"and everyday associations. The dangers are obvious — retreat into",p:164,x:89,y:1269,w:808,h:26},
{t:"162",p:165,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"invention and bombast, the pedantry of academic correctness or the sterile",p:165,x:94,y:84,w:807,h:26},
{t:"language of some contemporary styles. Classicism requires surpassingly",p:165,x:94,y:115,w:807,h:26},
{t:"appropriate utterance in a public place — what we, given overriding",p:165,x:94,y:147,w:807,h:26},
{t:"emotions, and an eloquence to match, would dearly loved to have said to a",p:165,x:94,y:179,w:808,h:26},
{t:"cultivated audience. Words at the ideal fullness of their meaning, therefore,",p:165,x:94,y:210,w:808,h:26},
{t:"and calling up their primary meanings.",p:165,x:94,y:242,w:421,h:26},
{t:"Some examples may make this clearer. We can agree that Wilbur’s",p:165,x:94,y:294,w:807,h:26},
{t:"translation: 18",p:165,x:94,y:323,w:150,h:28},
{t:"We’ll sail, and at whatever cost obtain,",p:165,x:94,y:377,w:422,h:26},
{t:"Great Athens’ crown for one who’s fit to reign",p:165,x:94,y:409,w:496,h:26},
{t:"is a sensible and compact translation of:",p:165,x:94,y:460,w:440,h:26},
{t:"735. Partons ; et quelque prix qu'il en puisse coûter,",p:165,x:94,y:512,w:574,h:26},
{t:"Mettons le sceptre aux mains dignes de le porter.",p:165,x:94,y:544,w:539,h:26},
{t:"but also wonder if the constricting",p:165,x:94,y:595,w:371,h:26},
{t:"fit is quite appropriate.  Racine’s line is",p:165,x:480,y:595,w:421,h:26},
{t:"rather grander, and it may be best to retain the flourish:",p:165,x:94,y:627,w:618,h:26},
{t:"If not we sail, and, cost what price it may,",p:165,x:94,y:679,w:461,h:26},
{t:"we’ll place in worthier hands the sceptre’s sway.",p:165,x:94,y:710,w:526,h:26},
{t:"Similarly, we have to think continually of the audience, and avoid rhymes",p:165,x:94,y:762,w:807,h:26},
{t:"too obviously contrived. Wilbur’s",p:165,x:94,y:794,w:355,h:26},
{t:"459. But, dear Ismene, how rashly I have talked!",p:165,x:94,y:845,w:537,h:26},
{t:"My hopes may all too easily be balked,",p:165,x:94,y:877,w:422,h:26},
{t:"might be better put as:",p:165,x:94,y:929,w:254,h:26},
{t:"459. You’ll hear me humbled by my grief, in days",p:165,x:94,y:980,w:539,h:26},
{t:"to come perhaps regret these vaunting ways.",p:165,x:94,y:1012,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Balance, a middle way, is therefore what is needed. We want a translation",p:165,x:94,y:1064,w:808,h:26},
{t:"that is sensitive to Racine’s shades of meaning, but also vigorous, alive and",p:165,x:94,y:1095,w:808,h:26},
{t:"believable, what polished courtiers would say in real situations. That means,",p:165,x:94,y:1127,w:808,h:26},
{t:"I think, we should avoid the easy rhymes of pantomime verse, expunge the",p:165,x:94,y:1159,w:808,h:26},
{t:"archaisms beloved of costume drama, and avoid the melodramatic phrase of",p:165,x:94,y:1190,w:808,h:26},
{t:"reverberating doom and the like.",p:165,x:94,y:1222,w:358,h:26},
{t:"163",p:166,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Finally comes writing something a modern audience can appreciate: the last",p:166,x:89,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"obstacle a translator faces. In this I may have failed, since many today have",p:166,x:89,y:115,w:807,h:26},
{t:"no ear for verse, even those teaching the subject or performing it on stage.",p:166,x:89,y:147,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra can be read for many reasons, but the prime reason is for its",p:166,x:89,y:179,w:807,h:26},
{t:"poetry, which is indissolubly part of the verse, and a very formal verse at",p:166,x:89,y:210,w:807,h:26},
{t:"that. A glance at the French text will show how different is the verse of the",p:166,x:89,y:242,w:809,h:26},
{t:"play from the prose of the Preface, and those verse features need to be",p:166,x:89,y:274,w:809,h:26},
{t:"retained in a translation, since it is through them that Phaedra exerts its",p:166,x:89,y:305,w:808,h:26},
{t:"power. A translation in contemporary styles would be more accessible, but it",p:166,x:89,y:337,w:808,h:26},
{t:"wouldn’t be Racine and probably not poetry.",p:166,x:89,y:369,w:483,h:26},
{t:"3.2. Previ ous Tra",p:166,x:89,y:450,w:223,h:31},
{t:"nsl ati ons",p:166,x:327,y:450,w:122,h:31},
{t:"3.2.1. ",p:166,x:89,y:530,w:74,h:31},
{t:"Lacy Lock",p:166,x:177,y:530,w:130,h:31},
{t:"ert",p:166,x:325,y:530,w:34,h:31},
{t:"One of the best known of translations in the first half of the twentieth",p:166,x:89,y:580,w:808,h:26},
{t:"century was that by Lacy Lockert, which went through several printings.",p:166,x:89,y:612,w:777,h:26},
{t:"19",p:166,x:879,y:610,w:17,h:17},
{t:"Lockert wrote in what he termed the old “heroic couplet” of Dryden and",p:166,x:89,y:644,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Pope, but gave it more flexibility by using imperfect rhymes and making the",p:166,x:89,y:675,w:808,h:26},
{t:"pauses appear in the middle rather than at the end of the line. To aid",p:166,x:89,y:707,w:809,h:26},
{t:"comparisons, I will look at three sections in the play that show different",p:166,x:89,y:739,w:808,h:26},
{t:"aspects of Racine’s art.",p:166,x:89,y:770,w:252,h:26},
{t:"The first is in Act One, Scene 1: simple narration that sets the scene:",p:166,x:89,y:822,w:755,h:26},
{t:"Theramenes speaking:",p:166,x:89,y:854,w:246,h:26},
{t:"Et dans quels lieux, Seigneur, l'allez-vous donc chercher ?",p:166,x:89,y:905,w:633,h:26},
{t:"Déjà, pour satisfaire à votre juste crainte,",p:166,x:89,y:937,w:457,h:26},
{t:"10. J'ai couru les deux mers que sépare Corinthe ;",p:166,x:89,y:969,w:550,h:26},
{t:"J'ai demandé Thésée aux peuples de ces bords",p:166,x:89,y:1000,w:509,h:26},
{t:"Où l'on voit l'Acheron se perdre chez les morts ;",p:166,x:89,y:1032,w:525,h:26},
{t:"J'ai visité l'Élide, et, laissant le Ténare,",p:166,x:89,y:1064,w:421,h:26},
{t:"Passé jusqu'à la mer qui vit tomber Icare.",p:166,x:89,y:1095,w:456,h:26},
{t:"Sur quel espoir nouveau, dans quels heureux climats",p:166,x:89,y:1127,w:577,h:26},
{t:"Croyez-vous découvrir la trace de ses pas ?",p:166,x:89,y:1159,w:474,h:26},
{t:"Qui sait même, qui sait si le Roi votre père",p:166,x:89,y:1190,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Veut que de son absence on sache le mystère ?",p:166,x:89,y:1222,w:519,h:26},
{t:"Et si, lorsqu'avec vous nous tremblons pour ses jours,",p:166,x:89,y:1254,w:589,h:26},
{t:"164",p:167,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"20. Tranquille, et nous cachant de nouvelles amours,",p:167,x:94,y:84,w:577,h:26},
{t:"Ce héros n'attend point qu'une amante abusée...",p:167,x:94,y:115,w:532,h:26},
{t:"Lockert’s translation runs:",p:167,x:94,y:167,w:285,h:26},
{t:"And where, sir, wilt thou look for him? Ere this",p:167,x:94,y:219,w:508,h:26},
{t:"To lull thy filial anxieties,",p:167,x:94,y:250,w:271,h:26},
{t:"I have made passage over both the seas",p:167,x:94,y:282,w:442,h:26},
{t:"Which Corinth sunders. Even on those shores",p:167,x:94,y:314,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Where the dark kingdom of the dead devours",p:167,x:94,y:345,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Acheron, I have asked for Theseus.",p:167,x:94,y:377,w:385,h:26},
{t:"Elis I visited, and from Taenarus",p:167,x:94,y:409,w:353,h:26},
{t:"Sailed to those waters which beheld the fall",p:167,x:94,y:440,w:473,h:26},
{t:"Of Icarus. Now what new hope, withal,",p:167,x:94,y:472,w:422,h:26},
{t:"Leadeth thee on, or in what blessèd place",p:167,x:94,y:504,w:453,h:26},
{t:"Expectest thou of his steps to find a trace?",p:167,x:94,y:535,w:464,h:26},
{t:"Who knows? thy royal sire, it well may be,",p:167,x:94,y:567,w:462,h:26},
{t:"Desireth to preserve in mystery",p:167,x:94,y:599,w:344,h:26},
{t:"His absence. While we fear lest he have died,",p:167,x:94,y:630,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Perchance the hero doth unharmed but hide",p:167,x:94,y:662,w:480,h:26},
{t:"Some newest love, wooing some ‘wildered maid . . .",p:167,x:94,y:694,w:570,h:26},
{t:"Setting aside the diction, of its time but now dated, the text is perfectly",p:167,x:94,y:745,w:807,h:26},
{t:"speakable. The rhythms run naturally, more free verse than heroic couplets,",p:167,x:94,y:777,w:808,h:26},
{t:"with the pararhymes only faintly marking the line ends. It is not particularly",p:167,x:94,y:809,w:807,h:26},
{t:"powerful, however, and some of the phrases are more decorative than",p:167,x:94,y:840,w:808,h:26},
{t:"meaningful (e.g. traversed o’er the wave). The looseness of the phrasing",p:167,x:94,y:872,w:808,h:26},
{t:"would help an experienced actor, but doesn’t cohere into beautiful or",p:167,x:94,y:904,w:807,h:26},
{t:"memorable lines.",p:167,x:94,y:935,w:187,h:26},
{t:"In the second section I’ve chosen, Act Four, Scene 6, the verse must grip",p:167,x:94,y:987,w:809,h:26},
{t:"the spectator as Phaedra is here bidding farewell to life:",p:167,x:94,y:1019,w:610,h:26},
{t:"Pardonne. Un Dieu cruel a perdu ta famille :",p:167,x:94,y:1070,w:481,h:26},
{t:"1290. Reconnais sa vengeance aux fureurs de ta fille.",p:167,x:94,y:1102,w:583,h:26},
{t:"Hélas ! du crime affreux dont la honte me suit",p:167,x:94,y:1134,w:503,h:26},
{t:"Jamais mon triste coeur n'a recueilli le fruit.",p:167,x:94,y:1165,w:478,h:26},
{t:"Jusqu'au dernier soupir, de malheurs poursuivie,",p:167,x:94,y:1197,w:530,h:26},
{t:"Je rends dans les tourments une pénible vie.",p:167,x:94,y:1229,w:487,h:26},
{t:"Lacy Lockert’s translation:",p:167,x:94,y:1280,w:286,h:26},
{t:"165",p:168,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"Some cruel god hath all",p:168,x:89,y:84,w:259,h:26},
{t:"Thy house destroyed. See in thy daughter’s fall",p:168,x:89,y:115,w:514,h:26},
{t:"A final stroke! Alas, never the fruit",p:168,x:89,y:147,w:376,h:26},
{t:"Of that dire crime whose shame made such pursuit",p:168,x:89,y:179,w:556,h:26},
{t:"Of me, my piteous heart hath tasted once!",p:168,x:89,y:210,w:464,h:26},
{t:"Behold, how sorrow still unceasing hunts",p:168,x:89,y:242,w:445,h:26},
{t:"Me even to my latest breath, and I",p:168,x:89,y:274,w:379,h:26},
{t:"in torture end a life of misery.",p:168,x:89,y:305,w:327,h:26},
{t:"Here, I think, Lockert’s verse is straining for effect, the declamation",p:168,x:89,y:357,w:739,h:26},
{t:"coming between us and the pity we should feel for the ruined queen.",p:168,x:89,y:389,w:750,h:26},
{t:"The final section is that terrible description of Hippolytus’s death in Act",p:168,x:89,y:440,w:771,h:26},
{t:"Five, Scene 6:",p:168,x:89,y:472,w:156,h:26},
{t:"1535. La fureur les emporte, et sourds à cette fois,",p:168,x:89,y:524,w:556,h:26},
{t:"Ils ne connaissent plus ni le frein ni la voix.",p:168,x:89,y:555,w:471,h:26},
{t:"En efforts impuissants leur maître se consume,",p:168,x:89,y:587,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Ils rougissent le mors d'une sanglante écume.",p:168,x:89,y:619,w:502,h:26},
{t:"On dit qu'on a vu même, en ce désordre affreux,",p:168,x:89,y:650,w:533,h:26},
{t:"Un dieu qui d'aiguillons pressait leur flanc poudreux.",p:168,x:89,y:682,w:571,h:26},
{t:"A travers des rochers la peur les précipite.",p:168,x:89,y:714,w:461,h:26},
{t:"L'essieu crie et se rompt. L'intrépide Hippolyte",p:168,x:89,y:745,w:505,h:26},
{t:"Voit voler en éclats tout son char fracassé.",p:168,x:89,y:777,w:463,h:26},
{t:"Dans les rênes lui-même il tombe embarrassé.",p:168,x:89,y:809,w:509,h:26},
{t:"Excusez ma douleur. Cette image cruelle",p:168,x:89,y:840,w:444,h:26},
{t:"Sera pour moi de pleurs une source éternelle.",p:168,x:89,y:872,w:499,h:26},
{t:"Lacy Lockert’s translation:",p:168,x:89,y:924,w:286,h:26},
{t:"Terror lays hold on them,",p:168,x:89,y:975,w:277,h:26},
{t:"And deaf for once, they heed not voice or rein.",p:168,x:89,y:1007,w:509,h:26},
{t:"Their master struggles vainly to restrain",p:168,x:89,y:1039,w:437,h:26},
{t:"Their flight. With bloody foam their bits are red.",p:168,x:89,y:1070,w:522,h:26},
{t:"   Amid the whirling tumult, it is said,",p:168,x:89,y:1122,w:406,h:26},
{t:"A god was seen, who did with prick and thrust",p:168,x:89,y:1154,w:504,h:26},
{t:"Of goad assail their sides, besmeared with dust.",p:168,x:89,y:1185,w:524,h:26},
{t:"Fear drives them over the rocks. Load groans the nave.",p:168,x:89,y:1217,w:605,h:26},
{t:"The axle snaps. Hippolytus the brave",p:168,x:89,y:1249,w:403,h:26},
{t:"Sees fly to pieces all his broken car,",p:168,x:89,y:1280,w:392,h:26},
{t:"166",p:169,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"And tangled in the reins, is hurled afar.",p:169,x:94,y:84,w:427,h:26},
{t:"Forgive my grief. This cruel sight will be",p:169,x:94,y:115,w:435,h:26},
{t:"An everlasting source of tears, for me.",p:169,x:94,y:147,w:419,h:26},
{t:"Sensible and vigorous, Lockert has captured the prose sense admirably,",p:169,x:94,y:199,w:807,h:26},
{t:"which may sum up the translation generally. The rendering is intelligent,",p:169,x:94,y:230,w:807,h:26},
{t:"conveying the sense faithfully and in a language an actor would have little",p:169,x:94,y:262,w:808,h:26},
{t:"difficulty speaking (though it needs modernizing). What is missing,",p:169,x:94,y:294,w:807,h:26},
{t:"however, is the power, the compressed irony, the memorable phrasing and",p:169,x:94,y:325,w:808,h:26},
{t:"the poetry, all of which become necessary in the great scenes that make",p:169,x:94,y:357,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra what it is.",p:169,x:94,y:389,w:203,h:26},
{t:"3.2.2. Rober",p:169,x:94,y:470,w:165,h:31},
{t:"t Low el l",p:169,x:269,y:470,w:112,h:31},
{t:"Robert Lowell’s 1960 translation burst on the literary scene to equal praise",p:169,x:94,y:520,w:808,h:26},
{t:"and condemnation. 20 It was immensely readable, vivid and contemporary.",p:169,x:94,y:550,w:807,h:28},
{t:"Many lines had that idiomatic exactness of phrasing that marks a good poet,",p:169,x:94,y:584,w:808,h:26},
{t:"and to this was added rare verve and excitement. No one had ever heard",p:169,x:94,y:615,w:809,h:26},
{t:"Racine before as:",p:169,x:94,y:647,w:190,h:26},
{t:"1. No, no, my friend, we’re off! Six months have passed",p:169,x:94,y:699,w:611,h:26},
{t:"since Father heard the ocean howl and cast",p:169,x:94,y:730,w:472,h:26},
{t:"his gallery on the Aegean’s skull-white froth.",p:169,x:94,y:762,w:486,h:26},
{t:"1306. Must I still listen and drink your poisoned breath?",p:169,x:94,y:814,w:610,h:26},
{t:"My death’s redoubled on the edge of death.",p:169,x:94,y:845,w:475,h:26},
{t:"I fled Hippolytus and I was free",p:169,x:94,y:877,w:343,h:26},
{t:"till your entreaties stabbed and blinded me.",p:169,x:94,y:909,w:475,h:26},
{t:"Unfortunately, the failures were equally glaring, and made an impressive",p:169,x:94,y:960,w:794,h:26},
{t:"list.",p:169,x:94,y:992,w:39,h:26},
{t:"Lowell’s approach was foreign to French classical tragedy, and indeed to",p:169,x:94,y:1044,w:786,h:26},
{t:"the classical world: it was Lowell’s play and not Racine’s.",p:169,x:94,y:1075,w:619,h:26},
{t:"Does he need helpers to share",p:169,x:94,y:1127,w:331,h:26},
{t:"the plunder of his latest love affair;",p:169,x:94,y:1159,w:385,h:26},
{t:"shipload of spectators and his son",p:169,x:94,y:1190,w:370,h:26},
{t:"to watch him ruin his last Amazon.",p:169,x:94,y:1222,w:378,h:26},
{t:"167",p:170,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"The writing was also uneven: pieces of superlative verse craft could be",p:170,x:89,y:84,w:771,h:26},
{t:"followed by inanities:",p:170,x:89,y:115,w:232,h:26},
{t:"when he leaps to crush her like a waterfall",p:170,x:89,y:167,w:461,h:26},
{t:"of honeysuckle.",p:170,x:89,y:199,w:169,h:26},
{t:"You are cynical,",p:170,x:89,y:250,w:171,h:26},
{t:"The sheer energy often swamped the lines, making for a play without",p:170,x:89,y:302,w:757,h:26},
{t:"lights and darks, or even sufficient shading in the characters.",p:170,x:89,y:334,w:666,h:26},
{t:"The translation failed in the great scenes, the lines passing into rant and",p:170,x:89,y:385,w:788,h:26},
{t:"bombast.",p:170,x:89,y:417,w:101,h:26},
{t:"My lover flees me still, and my last gasp",p:170,x:89,y:469,w:439,h:26},
{t:"is for the fleeting flesh I failed to clasp.",p:170,x:89,y:500,w:427,h:26},
{t:"The diction was an awkward mix of social registers.",p:170,x:89,y:552,w:560,h:26},
{t:"lascivious eulogist of any belle",p:170,x:89,y:604,w:330,h:26},
{t:"Whole sections were Lowell’s invention, which did not improve the play.",p:170,x:89,y:655,w:782,h:26},
{t:"The three sections under comparison:",p:170,x:89,y:707,w:412,h:26},
{t:"Where, my lord? I’ve sent a host",p:170,x:89,y:759,w:356,h:26},
{t:"of veteran seamen up and down the coast;",p:170,x:89,y:790,w:468,h:26},
{t:"each village, creek and cove from here to Crete",p:170,x:89,y:822,w:518,h:26},
{t:"has been ransacked and questioned by my fleet;",p:170,x:89,y:854,w:530,h:26},
{t:"my flagship skirted Hades’ rapids, furled",p:170,x:89,y:885,w:440,h:26},
{t:"sail there a day, and scoured the underworld.",p:170,x:89,y:917,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Have you fresh news? New hopes? One even doubts",p:170,x:89,y:949,w:568,h:26},
{t:"if noble Theseus wants his whereabouts",p:170,x:89,y:980,w:432,h:26},
{t:"discovered. Does he need helpers to share",p:170,x:89,y:1012,w:463,h:26},
{t:"the plunder of his latest love affair;",p:170,x:89,y:1044,w:385,h:26},
{t:"a shipload of spectators and his son",p:170,x:89,y:1075,w:389,h:26},
{t:"to watch him ruin his last Amazon—",p:170,x:89,y:1107,w:392,h:26},
{t:"some creature, taller than a man, whose tanned",p:170,x:89,y:1139,w:525,h:26},
{t:"and single bosom slithers from his hand,",p:170,x:89,y:1170,w:443,h:26},
{t:"when he leaps to crush her like a waterfall",p:170,x:89,y:1202,w:461,h:26},
{t:"of honeysuckle?",p:170,x:89,y:1234,w:173,h:26},
{t:"168",p:171,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"You cannot kill me; look, my murderer",p:171,x:94,y:84,w:422,h:26},
{t:"is Venus, who destroyed my family;",p:171,x:94,y:115,w:391,h:26},
{t:"Father she has already murdered me.",p:171,x:94,y:147,w:410,h:26},
{t:"I killed myself—and what is worse I wasted",p:171,x:94,y:179,w:472,h:26},
{t:"my life for pleasures I have never tasted.",p:171,x:94,y:210,w:450,h:26},
{t:"My lover flees me still, and my last gasp",p:171,x:94,y:242,w:439,h:26},
{t:"is for the fleeting flesh I failed to clasp.",p:171,x:94,y:274,w:427,h:26},
{t:"and then the horses, terror struck, stampeded.",p:171,x:94,y:325,w:512,h:26},
{t:"Their master’s whip and shouting went unheeded,",p:171,x:94,y:357,w:544,h:26},
{t:"they dragged his breathless body to the spray.",p:171,x:94,y:389,w:509,h:26},
{t:"Their red mouths bit the bloody surf, men say",p:171,x:94,y:420,w:501,h:26},
{t:"Poseidon stood beside them, that the god",p:171,x:94,y:452,w:454,h:26},
{t:"was stabbing at their bellies with a goad.",p:171,x:94,y:484,w:446,h:26},
{t:"Their terror drove them crashing at a cliff,",p:171,x:94,y:515,w:459,h:26},
{t:"the chariot crashed in two, they ran as if",p:171,x:94,y:547,w:443,h:26},
{t:"the Furies screamed and crackled in their manes,",p:171,x:94,y:579,w:537,h:26},
{t:"their fallen hero tangled in the reins,",p:171,x:94,y:610,w:399,h:26},
{t:"jounced on the rocks behind them. The sweet light",p:171,x:94,y:642,w:552,h:26},
{t:"of heaven will never expunge this sight:",p:171,x:94,y:674,w:436,h:26},
{t:"3.2.3. Ted Hug",p:171,x:94,y:755,w:194,h:31},
{t:"hes",p:171,x:303,y:755,w:44,h:31},
{t:"Ted Hughes’ Phèdre of 1998 was warmly received.",p:171,x:94,y:805,w:558,h:26},
{t:"17 The translation was",p:171,x:662,y:803,w:240,h:28},
{t:"staged in London in 1998, and this production, starring Diana Rigg,",p:171,x:94,y:837,w:807,h:26},
{t:"transferred to the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1999. Unfortunately,",p:171,x:94,y:869,w:808,h:26},
{t:"perhaps attempting to express Racine’s passion as more primeval forces,",p:171,x:94,y:900,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Hughes replaced the restraint, dignity and beauty of Racine’s lines with a",p:171,x:94,y:932,w:809,h:26},
{t:"monolithic free verse that is often little more than prose. Like Lowell, he",p:171,x:94,y:964,w:807,h:26},
{t:"rewrote sections to his own liking, and the result is a coarsening of Racine’s",p:171,x:94,y:995,w:807,h:26},
{t:"meaning and effect. The three sections:",p:171,x:94,y:1027,w:435,h:26},
{t:"But where, my lord, would you begin to look?",p:171,x:94,y:1079,w:497,h:26},
{t:"We have done all we can to find him.",p:171,x:94,y:1110,w:403,h:26},
{t:"Our ships have searched both seas, they have gone",p:171,x:94,y:1142,w:564,h:26},
{t:"as far as Acheron",p:171,x:94,y:1174,w:189,h:26},
{t:"Where it dives to the underworld, and nowhere",p:171,x:94,y:1205,w:513,h:26},
{t:"Can Theseus be found.",p:171,x:94,y:1237,w:248,h:26},
{t:"We have searched Elis, and on past Tenaros,",p:171,x:94,y:1269,w:488,h:26},
{t:"169",p:172,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"As far as the ocean",p:172,x:89,y:84,w:208,h:26},
{t:"That drowned Icarus when he fell out of heaven.",p:172,x:89,y:115,w:529,h:26},
{t:"We have searched every coast within reach",p:172,x:89,y:147,w:471,h:26},
{t:"For news of the King and found nothing.",p:172,x:89,y:179,w:438,h:26},
{t:"Do you think you’ll fare better?",p:172,x:89,y:210,w:338,h:26},
{t:"What unsearched patch of earth do you think might hold him?",p:172,x:89,y:242,w:676,h:26},
{t:"In any case, who knows—",p:172,x:89,y:274,w:282,h:26},
{t:"He might have chosen to vanish.",p:172,x:89,y:305,w:358,h:26},
{t:"He might be lying low for his own good reasons.",p:172,x:89,y:337,w:526,h:26},
{t:"While we rack ourselves",p:172,x:89,y:369,w:261,h:26},
{t:"Imagining his death,",p:172,x:89,y:400,w:225,h:26},
{t:"He is lolling at ease, tucked away",p:172,x:89,y:432,w:364,h:26},
{t:"With some beauty—soon to be deserted,",p:172,x:89,y:464,w:442,h:26},
{t:"O Father, you have to forgive me.",p:172,x:89,y:515,w:370,h:26},
{t:"The pitiless goddess",p:172,x:89,y:547,w:219,h:26},
{t:"Would not loosen her grip on your family.",p:172,x:89,y:579,w:453,h:26},
{t:"I am one more trophy of her vengeance.",p:172,x:89,y:610,w:444,h:26},
{t:"My crimes were execrable.",p:172,x:89,y:642,w:290,h:26},
{t:"Their shame walks with me like my shadow.",p:172,x:89,y:674,w:481,h:26},
{t:"But they brought me no profit—",p:172,x:89,y:705,w:347,h:26},
{t:"Not one flicker of gratification.",p:172,x:89,y:737,w:330,h:26},
{t:"No, my every step",p:172,x:89,y:769,w:200,h:26},
{t:"Carried me deeper into evil fortune.",p:172,x:89,y:800,w:390,h:26},
{t:"My whole life has been wretched and ends in torment.",p:172,x:89,y:832,w:590,h:26},
{t:"Then the horses went mad—",p:172,x:89,y:884,w:312,h:26},
{t:"I heard Hippolytus shouting among the screams",p:172,x:89,y:915,w:523,h:26},
{t:"Of the horses, and the blasts of that beast.",p:172,x:89,y:947,w:468,h:26},
{t:"The wonderful strength of Hippolytus was helpless.",p:172,x:89,y:979,w:556,h:26},
{t:"Some of the others saw something",p:172,x:89,y:1010,w:380,h:26},
{t:"I can hardly credit, I did not see it.",p:172,x:89,y:1042,w:381,h:26},
{t:"They saw the glowing figure of a naked god",p:172,x:89,y:1074,w:475,h:26},
{t:"Astride the shoulders of the demented horses—",p:172,x:89,y:1105,w:518,h:26},
{t:"Goading and urging them",p:172,x:89,y:1137,w:277,h:26},
{t:"Among the rocks of the foreshore",p:172,x:89,y:1169,w:365,h:26},
{t:"With the chariot, stripped of its wheel,",p:172,x:89,y:1200,w:417,h:26},
{t:"Bounding like a bucket behind them.",p:172,x:89,y:1232,w:399,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus had wound his arms in the reins.",p:172,x:89,y:1264,w:480,h:26},
{t:"170",p:173,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"He tore the horses’ mouths but they felt nothing.",p:173,x:94,y:84,w:534,h:26},
{t:"And the voice they had grown up with",p:173,x:94,y:115,w:413,h:26},
{t:"Became a scream that added to their terror",p:173,x:94,y:147,w:473,h:26},
{t:"As the chariot disintegrated beneath him.",p:173,x:94,y:179,w:451,h:26},
{t:"Then it was two mad horses dragging a man.",p:173,x:94,y:210,w:492,h:26},
{t:"Oh my lord, forgive me! The sight of it",p:173,x:94,y:242,w:421,h:26},
{t:"Is like a great wound through my body,",p:173,x:94,y:274,w:432,h:26},
{t:"It’s never going to heal.",p:173,x:94,y:305,w:261,h:26},
{t:"The characters lack dignity:",p:173,x:94,y:357,w:306,h:26},
{t:"lying low for his own good reasons. Racine’s",p:173,x:410,y:357,w:492,h:26},
{t:"meaning is brutalised: But they brought me no profit. Then the horses went",p:173,x:94,y:389,w:809,h:26},
{t:"mad and Bounding like a bucket  are unintentionally comic. Carried me",p:173,x:94,y:420,w:808,h:26},
{t:"deeper into evil fortune is the language of pantomime and fairy tales. And",p:173,x:94,y:452,w:808,h:26},
{t:"so on. Hughes was continuing the modernising trend of Lowell, but had by",p:173,x:94,y:484,w:808,h:26},
{t:"this time lost the gifts that made his earlier poetry so memorable.",p:173,x:94,y:515,w:719,h:26},
{t:"3.2.4. Robert ",p:173,x:94,y:594,w:172,h:31},
{t:"Boswel l",p:173,x:281,y:594,w:107,h:31},
{t:"Blank verse does not always give flexibility, as sections from Robert",p:173,x:94,y:650,w:740,h:26},
{t:"Boswell’s 1898-91 translation show: 21",p:173,x:94,y:680,w:419,h:28},
{t:"And where, prince, will you look for him?",p:173,x:94,y:734,w:446,h:26},
{t:"Already, to content your just alarm,",p:173,x:94,y:765,w:390,h:26},
{t:"Have I not cross’d the seas on either side",p:173,x:94,y:797,w:451,h:26},
{t:"Of Corinth, ask’d if aught were known of Theseus",p:173,x:94,y:829,w:537,h:26},
{t:"Where Acheron is lost among the Shades,",p:173,x:94,y:860,w:455,h:26},
{t:"Visited Elis, doubled Tœnarus,",p:173,x:94,y:892,w:329,h:26},
{t:"And sail’d into the sea that saw the fall",p:173,x:94,y:924,w:423,h:26},
{t:"Of Icarus? Inspired with what new hope,",p:173,x:94,y:955,w:441,h:26},
{t:"Under what favour’d skies think you to trace",p:173,x:94,y:987,w:484,h:26},
{t:"His footsteps? Who knows if the King, your father,",p:173,x:94,y:1019,w:547,h:26},
{t:"Wishes the secret of his absence known?",p:173,x:94,y:1050,w:445,h:26},
{t:"Perchance, while we are trembling for his life,",p:173,x:94,y:1082,w:498,h:26},
{t:"The hero calmly plots some fresh intrigue,",p:173,x:94,y:1114,w:460,h:26},
{t:"And only waits till the deluded fair—",p:173,x:94,y:1145,w:393,h:26},
{t:"Spare me! A cruel goddess has destroy’d",p:173,x:94,y:1197,w:446,h:26},
{t:"Thy race; and in my madness recognize",p:173,x:94,y:1229,w:434,h:26},
{t:"Her wrath. Alas! My aching heart has reap’d",p:173,x:94,y:1260,w:478,h:26},
{t:"171",p:174,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"No fruit of pleasure from the frightful crime",p:174,x:89,y:84,w:472,h:26},
{t:"The shame of which pursues me to the grave,",p:174,x:89,y:115,w:499,h:26},
{t:"And ends in torment life-long misery.",p:174,x:89,y:147,w:407,h:26},
{t:"Fear lends them wings; deaf to his voice for once,",p:174,x:89,y:199,w:544,h:26},
{t:"And heedless of the curb, they onward fly.",p:174,x:89,y:230,w:462,h:26},
{t:"Their master wastes his strength in efforts vain;",p:174,x:89,y:262,w:525,h:26},
{t:"With foam and blood each courser’s bit is red.",p:174,x:89,y:294,w:500,h:26},
{t:"Some say a god, amid this wild disorder,",p:174,x:89,y:325,w:445,h:26},
{t:"Was seen with goads pricking their dusty flanks.",p:174,x:89,y:357,w:526,h:26},
{t:"O’er jagged rocks they rush urged on by terror;",p:174,x:89,y:389,w:520,h:26},
{t:"Crash! goes the axle-tree. Th’ intrepid youth",p:174,x:89,y:420,w:484,h:26},
{t:"Sees his car broken up, flying to pieces;",p:174,x:89,y:452,w:437,h:26},
{t:"He falls himself entangled in the reins.",p:174,x:89,y:484,w:419,h:26},
{t:"Pardon my grief. That cruel spectacle",p:174,x:89,y:515,w:406,h:26},
{t:"Will be for me a source of endless tears.",p:174,x:89,y:547,w:439,h:26},
{t:"Margaret Rawlings, 22 who modernized the text for her own acting purposes,",p:174,x:89,y:596,w:808,h:28},
{t:"pointed out the shortcomings. The diction is Victorian. The phrasings are",p:174,x:89,y:630,w:808,h:26},
{t:"disjointed, and lack the urgency of emotion that must carry the speakers",p:174,x:89,y:662,w:809,h:26},
{t:"on. Some words have changed their meaning: we can’t now say:",p:174,x:89,y:694,w:708,h:26},
{t:"129. You have been seldom seen with wild delight",p:174,x:89,y:745,w:545,h:26},
{t:"Urging the rapid car along the Strand.",p:174,x:89,y:777,w:415,h:26},
{t:"3.2. 5. John Cairncross",p:174,x:89,y:859,w:286,h:31},
{t:"John Cairncross’s 1963 translation, printed by Penguin Books, will have",p:174,x:89,y:909,w:808,h:26},
{t:"introduced many to Racine’s plays. 14 The diction was more contemporary,",p:174,x:89,y:938,w:808,h:28},
{t:"and the phrasing more supple than Boswell’s. The rendering was",p:174,x:89,y:972,w:808,h:26},
{t:"exceptionally faithful, and individual lines were well-turned. The end-",p:174,x:89,y:1004,w:807,h:26},
{t:"stopped lines prevented a pleasing flow of utterance, however, and,",p:174,x:89,y:1035,w:809,h:26},
{t:"deprived of convincing voices, the characters did not come alive.",p:174,x:89,y:1067,w:705,h:26},
{t:"And, where, my lord, would you make search for him?",p:174,x:89,y:1119,w:592,h:26},
{t:"Already to allay your rightful fears,",p:174,x:89,y:1150,w:380,h:26},
{t:"I have scoured both the seas that Corinth joins;",p:174,x:89,y:1182,w:522,h:26},
{t:"I have sought for news of Theseus on the shores",p:174,x:89,y:1214,w:531,h:26},
{t:"Of Acheron, the river of the dead;",p:174,x:89,y:1245,w:370,h:26},
{t:"Elis I searched, then sailed past Tenaros",p:174,x:89,y:1277,w:439,h:26},
{t:"172",p:175,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"On to the sea where Icarus came down.",p:175,x:94,y:84,w:435,h:26},
{t:"What makes you hope that you may find his trace",p:175,x:94,y:115,w:544,h:26},
{t:"In some more favoured region of the world?",p:175,x:94,y:147,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Who knows indeed if it is his desire",p:175,x:94,y:179,w:383,h:26},
{t:"To have the secret of his absence known?",p:175,x:94,y:210,w:455,h:26},
{t:"And whether, as we tremble for his life.",p:175,x:94,y:242,w:430,h:26},
{t:"He is not tasting all the joys of love,",p:175,x:94,y:274,w:394,h:26},
{t:"And soon the outraged victim of his wiles. . .",p:175,x:94,y:305,w:488,h:26},
{t:"Forgive me. Venus’s wrath has doomed your race.",p:175,x:94,y:357,w:548,h:26},
{t:"Your daughter’s frenzy shows that vengeance forth.",p:175,x:94,y:389,w:564,h:26},
{t:"Alas, my sad heart never has enjoyed",p:175,x:94,y:420,w:411,h:26},
{t:"The fruits of crimes whose dark shame follows me.",p:175,x:94,y:452,w:553,h:26},
{t:"Dogged by misfortune to my dying breath",p:175,x:94,y:484,w:457,h:26},
{t:"I end upon the rack a life of pain.",p:175,x:94,y:515,w:364,h:26},
{t:"Carried away by terror, deaf, the steeds",p:175,x:94,y:567,w:437,h:26},
{t:"No more responded to his curb or voice.",p:175,x:94,y:599,w:438,h:26},
{t:"Their master spent his efforts all in vain.",p:175,x:94,y:630,w:441,h:26},
{t:"They stained the bridle with their bloody foam.",p:175,x:94,y:662,w:510,h:26},
{t:"In this wild tumult, it is even said,",p:175,x:94,y:694,w:372,h:26},
{t:"A god appeared, goading their dusty flanks.",p:175,x:94,y:725,w:478,h:26},
{t:"Over the rocks fear drove them headlong on;",p:175,x:94,y:757,w:493,h:26},
{t:"The axle groaned and broke. Hippolytus",p:175,x:94,y:789,w:435,h:26},
{t:"Saw his whole chariot shattered into bits.",p:175,x:94,y:820,w:450,h:26},
{t:"He fell at last, entangled in the reins.",p:175,x:94,y:852,w:405,h:26},
{t:"Forgive my grief. For me this picture spells",p:175,x:94,y:884,w:467,h:26},
{t:"Eternal sorrow and perpetual tears",p:175,x:94,y:915,w:378,h:26},
{t:"3.2.6. ",p:175,x:94,y:997,w:74,h:31},
{t:"Richard Wi",p:175,x:181,y:997,w:143,h:31},
{t:"lbur",p:175,x:341,y:997,w:50,h:31},
{t:"Richard Wilbur’s 1984 translation went back to Augustan verse for its",p:175,x:94,y:1047,w:807,h:26},
{t:"inspiration, and was the most accomplished of its time. 18Hexameters were",p:175,x:94,y:1076,w:808,h:28},
{t:"expressed as rhyming couplets, and many of the lines were extraordinarily",p:175,x:94,y:1110,w:807,h:26},
{t:"pleasing.",p:175,x:94,y:1142,w:97,h:26},
{t:"159. These veils, these baubles, how they burden me!",p:175,x:94,y:1194,w:591,h:26},
{t:"What meddling hand has twined my hair, and made",p:175,x:94,y:1225,w:564,h:26},
{t:"Upon my brow so intricate a braid.",p:175,x:94,y:1257,w:378,h:26},
{t:"173",p:176,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"and here (though less appropriately, as it’s the horror that Theramenes is",p:176,x:89,y:84,w:809,h:26},
{t:"conveying):",p:176,x:89,y:115,w:129,h:26},
{t:"1557. The rocks are red with it; the briars bear",p:176,x:89,y:167,w:513,h:26},
{t:"Their red and dripping trophies of his hair.",p:176,x:89,y:199,w:462,h:26},
{t:"The rendering was also remarkably close to the original, employing much of",p:176,x:89,y:250,w:808,h:26},
{t:"its imagery, and  retaining Racine’s restrained and dignified style.",p:176,x:89,y:282,w:716,h:26},
{t:"The difficulties lie in four areas. One is the costume drama diction of woe,",p:176,x:89,y:334,w:807,h:26},
{t:"sire, maids, ere, hark, behold, etc. The second is the sometimes mechanical",p:176,x:89,y:365,w:808,h:26},
{t:"nature of the verse, which manhandles the natural cadence of words and",p:176,x:89,y:397,w:808,h:26},
{t:"phrases into lines that break its pleasing fabric.",p:176,x:89,y:429,w:516,h:26},
{t:"6. And yet I do not know what distant shore",p:176,x:89,y:480,w:481,h:26},
{t:"Now hides him, or what trials he now may bear.",p:176,x:89,y:512,w:523,h:26},
{t:"A third is the archness of expression that rhyme leads Wilbur into, in places",p:176,x:89,y:564,w:808,h:26},
{t:"verging on pantomime language.",p:176,x:89,y:595,w:360,h:26},
{t:"785. No doubt it was surprise that made him mute,",p:176,x:89,y:647,w:560,h:26},
{t:"And we do wrong to take him for a brute.",p:176,x:89,y:679,w:452,h:26},
{t:"The fourth difficulty is Wilbur’s detachment, the staccato stating rather than",p:176,x:89,y:730,w:808,h:26},
{t:"phrasing to evoke the emotion, particularly apparent in the  great scenes.",p:176,x:89,y:762,w:804,h:26},
{t:"1293. Misfortune dogs me till, with my last breath,",p:176,x:89,y:814,w:553,h:26},
{t:"My sad life shall, in torment, yield to death.",p:176,x:89,y:845,w:476,h:26},
{t:"The three sections:",p:176,x:89,y:929,w:209,h:26},
{t:"You’ll go in search of him, my lord? But where?",p:176,x:89,y:980,w:515,h:26},
{t:"Already, to appease your fears, I’ve plied",p:176,x:89,y:1012,w:449,h:26},
{t:"The seas which lie on Corinth’s either side;",p:176,x:89,y:1044,w:467,h:26},
{t:"I’ve asked for Theseus among tribes who dwell",p:176,x:89,y:1075,w:511,h:26},
{t:"Where Acheron goes plunging into Hell;",p:176,x:89,y:1107,w:432,h:26},
{t:"Elis I’ve searched and, from Taenarus bound,",p:176,x:89,y:1139,w:494,h:26},
{t:"Reached even that sea where Icarus was drowned.",p:176,x:89,y:1170,w:553,h:26},
{t:"In what fresh hope, in what unthought-of places,",p:176,x:89,y:1202,w:534,h:26},
{t:"Do you set out to find your father’s traces?",p:176,x:89,y:1234,w:468,h:26},
{t:"Who knows, indeed, if he wants the truth about",p:176,x:89,y:1265,w:518,h:26},
{t:"174",p:177,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"His long, mysterious absence to come out,",p:177,x:94,y:84,w:464,h:26},
{t:"And whether, while we tremble for him, he’s",p:177,x:94,y:115,w:483,h:26},
{t:"Not fondling some new conquest at his ease",p:177,x:94,y:147,w:480,h:26},
{t:"And planning to deceive her like the rest? …",p:177,x:94,y:179,w:477,h:26},
{t:"Forgive me. A cruel God destroys your line,",p:177,x:94,y:230,w:473,h:26},
{t:"Behold her hand in these mad deeds of mine.",p:177,x:94,y:262,w:496,h:26},
{t:"My heart, alas! not once enjoyed the fruit",p:177,x:94,y:294,w:452,h:26},
{t:"Of its dark, shameful crime. In fierce pursuit,",p:177,x:94,y:325,w:493,h:26},
{t:"Misfortune dogs me till, with my last breath,",p:177,x:94,y:357,w:484,h:26},
{t:"My sad life shall, in torment, yield to death.",p:177,x:94,y:389,w:476,h:26},
{t:"Sheer panic takes them; deaf now, they pay no heed",p:177,x:94,y:440,w:578,h:26},
{t:"To voice or curb, but bolt in full stampede;",p:177,x:94,y:472,w:466,h:26},
{t:"Their master strives to hold them back, in vain.",p:177,x:94,y:504,w:517,h:26},
{t:"A bloody slaver drips from bit to rein.",p:177,x:94,y:535,w:409,h:26},
{t:"It’s said that, in that tumult, some caught sight",p:177,x:94,y:567,w:516,h:26},
{t:"Of a God who spurred those dusty flanks to flight.",p:177,x:94,y:599,w:544,h:26},
{t:"Fear drives them over the rocks; the axletree",p:177,x:94,y:630,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Screeches and breaks. The intrepid prince must see",p:177,x:94,y:662,w:563,h:26},
{t:"His chariot dashed to bits, for all his pains;",p:177,x:94,y:694,w:467,h:26},
{t:"He falls at last, entangled in the reins.",p:177,x:94,y:725,w:416,h:26},
{t:"Forgive my grief. That cruel sight will be",p:177,x:94,y:757,w:439,h:26},
{t:"An everlasting source of tears to me.",p:177,x:94,y:789,w:403,h:26},
{t:"3.3. Thi s Trans",p:177,x:94,y:870,w:183,h:31},
{t:"lat ion",p:177,x:292,y:870,w:81,h:31},
{t:"As we’ve seen, it’s perfectly possible to translate Racine’s Phaedra into",p:177,x:94,y:920,w:808,h:26},
{t:"something other than it is. Grossly simplifying, Lowell turned it into",p:177,x:94,y:952,w:807,h:26},
{t:"melodrama. Hughes’s version is a prose enactment of mythic forces.",p:177,x:94,y:984,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Cairncross’s is a close-textured mosaic of correct rendering. Wilbur’s is an",p:177,x:94,y:1015,w:808,h:26},
{t:"elegant exercise in heroic couplets. What is missing from all these is the",p:177,x:94,y:1047,w:809,h:26},
{t:"empathy with a style of writing that is no longer used to express our",p:177,x:94,y:1079,w:809,h:26},
{t:"profoundest yearnings. To make a translation effective, we have to enter",p:177,x:94,y:1110,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Racine’s world, and devise equivalents that affect us today in ways",p:177,x:94,y:1142,w:808,h:26},
{t:"comparable to Racine’s appeal to a seventeenth century French audience.",p:177,x:94,y:1174,w:803,h:26},
{t:"175",p:178,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"That this can be done, I hope this translation demonstrates. For ready",p:178,x:89,y:84,w:809,h:26},
{t:"comparison, here are my renderings of the three passages under",p:178,x:89,y:115,w:808,h:26},
{t:"discussion:",p:178,x:89,y:147,w:120,h:26},
{t:"But, Prince, where look for him? I've scoured each side",p:178,x:89,y:199,w:600,h:26},
{t:"the oceans bounding Corinth for some word",p:178,x:89,y:230,w:477,h:26},
{t:"of Theseus, what was rumoured, who had heard.",p:178,x:89,y:262,w:533,h:26},
{t:"My search to calm your natural fears has led",p:178,x:89,y:294,w:484,h:26},
{t:"to shores where Acheron fades into the dead.",p:178,x:89,y:325,w:495,h:26},
{t:"I've called at Elis and from Taenarus",p:178,x:89,y:357,w:397,h:26},
{t:"surveyed the waters swallowing Icarus.",p:178,x:89,y:389,w:428,h:26},
{t:"What makes you think that through some happy place",p:178,x:89,y:420,w:591,h:26},
{t:"the steps of your dear hero left their trace?",p:178,x:89,y:452,w:471,h:26},
{t:"Perhaps the king, your father, is not prone",p:178,x:89,y:484,w:464,h:26},
{t:"to have the secrets of his absence known",p:178,x:89,y:515,w:450,h:26},
{t:"and while we tremble for his life he stays",p:178,x:89,y:547,w:447,h:26},
{t:"20. in blessed tranquillity, in hiding plays",p:178,x:89,y:579,w:448,h:26},
{t:"with some new love who cannot yet suspect. . .",p:178,x:89,y:610,w:518,h:26},
{t:"Forgive me that I let a god in wild",p:178,x:89,y:662,w:370,h:26},
{t:"1290. reprisal sow her fury through the child.",p:178,x:89,y:694,w:495,h:26},
{t:"Never the once to what it sought for came",p:178,x:89,y:725,w:460,h:26},
{t:"this heart, but sadness only, and to shame.",p:178,x:89,y:757,w:473,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra in sighs, with which her path was rife,",p:178,x:89,y:789,w:508,h:26},
{t:"in agonies gives back a painful life.",p:178,x:89,y:820,w:381,h:26},
{t:"The horses, terrified, must then stampede",p:178,x:89,y:872,w:459,h:26},
{t:"and to his voice and curb could pay no heed.",p:178,x:89,y:904,w:488,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus was wrestling but in vain",p:178,x:89,y:935,w:393,h:26},
{t:"to gain a purchase on the blood-wet rein.",p:178,x:89,y:967,w:451,h:26},
{t:"It’s even said by one a god appeared",p:178,x:89,y:999,w:404,h:26},
{t:"1540. and ran along their dusty flanks and steered",p:178,x:89,y:1030,w:553,h:26},
{t:"the chariot over boulders, headlong on",p:178,x:89,y:1062,w:422,h:26},
{t:"until the axle groaned and all was gone.",p:178,x:89,y:1094,w:436,h:26},
{t:"Hippolytus among the broken stone",p:178,x:89,y:1125,w:388,h:26},
{t:"was in the reins entangled and then thrown—",p:178,x:89,y:1157,w:496,h:26},
{t:"the scenes so harrowing that they will stain",p:178,x:89,y:1189,w:474,h:26},
{t:"the memory afterwards with vivid pain—",p:178,x:89,y:1220,w:442,h:26},
{t:"176",p:179,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"In making this translation, I should emphasize how much I have benefited",p:179,x:94,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"from previous attempts. Many have suggested rhymes or useful phrasings,",p:179,x:94,y:115,w:807,h:26},
{t:"which I have recast in my own fashion. In disagreeing with approaches I",p:179,x:94,y:147,w:808,h:26},
{t:"have come to see my own more clearly, and what others have achieved in",p:179,x:94,y:179,w:808,h:26},
{t:"the poetry has guided my own choice of form. That said, I have developed",p:179,x:94,y:210,w:807,h:26},
{t:"rather than copied. Where previous translators have partly gone back to",p:179,x:94,y:242,w:808,h:26},
{t:"earlier verse forms to accommodate Racine’s rhetoric, I have started from",p:179,x:94,y:274,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Augustan techniques and brought them forward, modifying and extending",p:179,x:94,y:305,w:807,h:26},
{t:"as follows:",p:179,x:94,y:337,w:116,h:26},
{t:"1. Toned down where possible the declamatory interjections, replacing them",p:179,x:94,y:389,w:808,h:26},
{t:"with something more acceptable to the contemporary stage.",p:179,x:94,y:420,w:658,h:26},
{t:"2. Done away with archaisms and the dialogue of costume drama, the likes",p:179,x:94,y:472,w:807,h:26},
{t:"of woe, sire, maids, ere, hark, doom, etc.",p:179,x:94,y:504,w:454,h:26},
{t:"3. Aimed for a supple continuity of line, indicating changes of tone and force",p:179,x:94,y:555,w:808,h:26},
{t:"in dialogue by word textural properties in a strict iambic verse.",p:179,x:94,y:587,w:685,h:26},
{t:"4. Given the long speeches (tirades) more of a driving force by absorbing",p:179,x:94,y:639,w:807,h:26},
{t:"the individual lines into the fabric of argument and getting them to flow",p:179,x:94,y:670,w:809,h:26},
{t:"across the rhyme boundaries.",p:179,x:94,y:702,w:323,h:26},
{t:"5. Written a more rhythmically virile and urgent line.",p:179,x:94,y:754,w:575,h:26},
{t:"My overall aim has been to recreate the poetry, without which Phaedra is",p:179,x:94,y:805,w:808,h:26},
{t:"scarcely worth reading.",p:179,x:94,y:837,w:253,h:26},
{t:"177",p:180,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"4. DEPARTURES FROM ORIGINAL TEXT",p:180,x:89,y:121,w:550,h:37},
{t:"No translation can be word-for-word faithful, but to meet the needs of",p:180,x:89,y:204,w:808,h:26},
{t:"rhyme I have occasionally changed the original order of lines, or made small",p:180,x:89,y:235,w:808,h:26},
{t:"departures from the prose sense. For those following the original text with",p:180,x:89,y:267,w:807,h:26},
{t:"minimal French, the main departures are these:",p:180,x:89,y:299,w:523,h:26},
{t:"9. transposed to line 11.",p:180,x:89,y:350,w:267,h:26},
{t:"25. as the throne: my addition.",p:180,x:89,y:402,w:341,h:26},
{t:"36. child: strictly: girl or daughter.",p:180,x:89,y:454,w:379,h:26},
{t:"51. dare view: strictly: fatal blood that conspired against us.",p:180,x:89,y:505,w:660,h:26},
{t:"138. strictly: I go to find my father.",p:180,x:89,y:557,w:390,h:26},
{t:"181-3. lines run into a continuous sentence.",p:180,x:89,y:609,w:481,h:26},
{t:"211-2. lines transposed.",p:180,x:89,y:660,w:264,h:26},
{t:"215-6. lines transposed.",p:180,x:89,y:712,w:264,h:26},
{t:"275. physique: my addition.",p:180,x:89,y:764,w:307,h:26},
{t:"402. transposed to 401.",p:180,x:89,y:815,w:261,h:26},
{t:"416-26. several transpositions to give a more flowing verse.",p:180,x:89,y:867,w:656,h:26},
{t:"732. let us search once more: strictly: let us neglect nothing.",p:180,x:89,y:919,w:668,h:26},
{t:"742-4. lines run together to give a more urgent sentence.",p:180,x:89,y:970,w:630,h:26},
{t:"751-2. lines transposed.",p:180,x:89,y:1022,w:264,h:26},
{t:"901. meaning expanded to line 902.",p:180,x:89,y:1074,w:395,h:26},
{t:"1161. as night the day: strictly: you cannot avoid it.",p:180,x:89,y:1125,w:570,h:26},
{t:"1163. Inevitable. My hands are tied. Strictly: you have forced me to",p:180,x:89,y:1177,w:743,h:26},
{t:"condemn you.",p:180,x:89,y:1209,w:154,h:26},
{t:"1506-10. lines partly transposed.",p:180,x:89,y:1260,w:361,h:26},
{t:"178",p:181,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"1514. strictly: a mountain of water.",p:181,x:94,y:84,w:389,h:26},
{t:"1516-17. lines partly transposed.",p:181,x:94,y:135,w:361,h:26},
{t:"1582-3. lines transposed.",p:181,x:94,y:187,w:278,h:26},
{t:"1594. success you see: strictly: my son’s no more",p:181,x:94,y:239,w:547,h:26},
{t:"1653. strictly: despite the plots of an unfair family.",p:181,x:94,y:290,w:555,h:26},
{t:"179",p:182,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"5. GLOSSARY",p:182,x:89,y:121,w:195,h:37},
{t:"2. Troezen: Peloponnesian city facing Athens and founded by Pittheus.",p:182,x:89,y:204,w:769,h:26},
{t:"10.  the oceans bounding Corinth: Ionian and Mirtoan Seas.",p:182,x:89,y:255,w:653,h:26},
{t:"12. Acheron: one of four rivers bordering the underworld.",p:182,x:89,y:307,w:629,h:26},
{t:"13 Elis: on the north-west coast of the Peloponnese: Taenarus forms a",p:182,x:89,y:359,w:808,h:26},
{t:"headland at the extreme south of the peninsula.",p:182,x:89,y:390,w:524,h:26},
{t:"14. Icarus, escaping from the labyrinth with Daedalus, flew too near the",p:182,x:89,y:442,w:808,h:26},
{t:"sun, which melted his waxen wings and plunged him into the Aegean Sea.",p:182,x:89,y:474,w:808,h:26},
{t:"36. Minos: son of Jupiter and Europa. King of Crete and ruler of the",p:182,x:89,y:525,w:809,h:26},
{t:"underworld.  His wife, Pasiphaë, was a daughter of the son, and mother of",p:182,x:89,y:557,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Phaedra, Ariadne, and (by coupling with a bull) the Minotaur.",p:182,x:89,y:589,w:668,h:26},
{t:"53.  Pallantides: sons of Pallas, brother of Aegeus, who tried to seize control",p:182,x:89,y:640,w:808,h:26},
{t:"of Athens but were slain by Theseus.",p:182,x:89,y:672,w:401,h:26},
{t:"61.  Venus is the goddess of love.",p:182,x:89,y:724,w:369,h:26},
{t:"69.  Hippolytus was the son of Theseus by Antiope, an Amazon he abducted.",p:182,x:89,y:775,w:808,h:26},
{t:"The Amazons occupied Scythia.",p:182,x:89,y:807,w:343,h:26},
{t:"80. Procrustes, Cercyon, Sciron and Sinnis were brigands notorious for",p:182,x:89,y:859,w:807,h:26},
{t:"inhuman practices, all slain by Theseus.",p:182,x:89,y:890,w:434,h:26},
{t:"81. Epidaurus was a giant slain by Theseus.",p:182,x:89,y:942,w:477,h:26},
{t:"85.  Helen was abducted as a child by Theseus. She married Menelaus, and",p:182,x:89,y:994,w:808,h:26},
{t:"her second abduction by Paris caused the Trojan War.",p:182,x:89,y:1025,w:587,h:26},
{t:"86.  Periboë, abducted and then abandoned by Theseus, became queen of",p:182,x:89,y:1077,w:808,h:26},
{t:"Salamis.",p:182,x:89,y:1109,w:92,h:26},
{t:"87. Ariadne, whose unwinding of a thread allowed Theseus to escape the",p:182,x:89,y:1160,w:809,h:26},
{t:"labyrinth after killing the Minotaur, was abandoned by Theseus on the island",p:182,x:89,y:1192,w:808,h:26},
{t:"of Naxos.",p:182,x:89,y:1224,w:102,h:26},
{t:"180",p:183,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"122. Hercules was the legendary hero whose courage and strength were",p:183,x:94,y:84,w:808,h:26},
{t:"tested in his twelve labours.",p:183,x:94,y:115,w:305,h:26},
{t:"131. Neptune, god of the sea and brother to Jupiter,  was the legendary",p:183,x:94,y:167,w:808,h:26},
{t:"teacher of the arts of horsemanship.",p:183,x:94,y:199,w:396,h:26},
{t:"269.  Aegeus, father of Theseus and ruler of Athens, descended from",p:183,x:94,y:250,w:807,h:26},
{t:"Erechtheus, who descended from the earth.",p:183,x:94,y:282,w:476,h:26},
{t:"360. Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, won Attica from Neptune and",p:183,x:94,y:334,w:809,h:26},
{t:"established herself at Athens.",p:183,x:94,y:365,w:322,h:26},
{t:"384. Theseus joined Pirithoüs to abduct Prosperpina, queen of the",p:183,x:94,y:417,w:809,h:26},
{t:"underworld.",p:183,x:94,y:449,w:130,h:26},
{t:"385 Cocytus is one of the four rivers of the underworld.",p:183,x:94,y:500,w:605,h:26},
{t:"644. Minos’ daughters: Phaedra and Ariadne.",p:183,x:94,y:552,w:492,h:26},
{t:"730. Epirus: north-west part of Greece, and source of rivers of the",p:183,x:94,y:604,w:808,h:26},
{t:"underworld.",p:183,x:94,y:635,w:130,h:26},
{t:"1404. Diana is the goddess of nature and protector of women. Juno is the",p:183,x:94,y:687,w:809,h:26},
{t:"wife of Jupiter.",p:183,x:94,y:719,w:161,h:26},
{t:"1501. Mycenae is a city north-west of Troezen.",p:183,x:94,y:770,w:512,h:26},
{t:"181",p:184,x:478,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"5. REFERENCES",p:184,x:89,y:121,w:221,h:37},
{t:"I have found the works by Richard Parish and Richard Wilbur to be the",p:184,x:89,y:204,w:768,h:26},
{t:"most useful, but material consulted includes:",p:184,x:89,y:235,w:490,h:26},
{t:"1. Bernard Weinberg. The Art of Jean Racine (Univ. Chicago Press, 1963).",p:184,x:89,y:287,w:805,h:26},
{t:"2. J.P. Short. Racine: Phèdre. Critical Guides to French Texts 20. (Grant",p:184,x:89,y:339,w:784,h:26},
{t:"and Cutler Ltd., 1983).",p:184,x:89,y:370,w:250,h:26},
{t:"3. Norah K. Drown. Jean Racine: Meditations on his Poetic Art. (Manley &",p:184,x:89,y:422,w:798,h:26},
{t:"Son Ltd., 1982).",p:184,x:89,y:454,w:178,h:26},
{t:"4. Peter France. Racine’s Rhetoric (Clarendon Press, 1965).",p:184,x:89,y:505,w:647,h:26},
{t:"5. Richard Parish. Racine: Phèdre (Bristol Classical Press, 1996).",p:184,x:89,y:557,w:704,h:26},
{t:"6. Roy Lewis, On Reading French Verse: A Study of Poetic Form.",p:184,x:89,y:609,w:703,h:26},
{t:"(Clarendon Press, 1982).",p:184,x:89,y:640,w:273,h:26},
{t:"7. Bonamy Dobrée. Restoration Tragedy: 1660-1720. (Clarendon Press,",p:184,x:89,y:692,w:784,h:26},
{t:"1929).",p:184,x:89,y:724,w:72,h:26},
{t:"8. Dryden, John, 1631-1700: Aureng-Zebe (1994).",p:184,x:89,y:775,w:557,h:26},
{t:"http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~esull/restoration/aurengzebe.htm.",p:184,x:89,y:807,w:653,h:26},
{t:"9. Dryden, John. All for Love.",p:184,x:89,y:859,w:320,h:26},
{t:"http://www.bibliomania.com/0/6/192/1089/frameset.html",p:184,x:89,y:890,w:638,h:26},
{t:"10. Dryden, John. The Indian Emperor. http://www.fullbooks.com/The-",p:184,x:89,y:942,w:780,h:26},
{t:"Works-of-John-Dryden-Vol-II7.html. Quoted in Dobrée, 54-5.",p:184,x:89,y:974,w:672,h:26},
{t:"11. F.E. Halliday. The Poetry of Shakespeare’s Plays. (Duckworth, 1954).",p:184,x:89,y:1025,w:796,h:26},
{t:"12. George T. Wright. Shakespeare’s Poetic Techniques in John F.",p:184,x:89,y:1077,w:716,h:26},
{t:"Andrews (ed.) William Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His Influence",p:184,x:89,y:1109,w:779,h:26},
{t:"Vol. 2. (Scribner’s, 1985).",p:184,x:89,y:1140,w:284,h:26},
{t:"13. George T. Wright. Shakespeare’s Metrical Art. (Univ. California Press,",p:184,x:89,y:1192,w:799,h:26},
{t:"1988).",p:184,x:89,y:1224,w:72,h:26},
{t:"182",p:185,x:482,y:1315,w:30,h:21},
{t:"14. John Cairncross (trans.) Racine: Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah.",p:185,x:94,y:84,w:717,h:26},
{t:"(Penguin Books, 1963).",p:185,x:94,y:115,w:256,h:26},
{t:"15. Robin Grove. Uniting Airy Substance: The Rape of the Lock 1712-",p:185,x:94,y:167,w:759,h:26},
{t:"1736, in H. Erskine-Hill and A. Smith (eds) The Art of Alexander Pope.",p:185,x:94,y:199,w:767,h:26},
{t:"(Vision Press, 1979).",p:185,x:94,y:230,w:227,h:26},
{t:"16. Patrick Swinden. Translating Racine. Summer 1997.",p:185,x:94,y:282,w:610,h:26},
{t:"http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3612/is_199707/ai_n87592",p:185,x:94,y:314,w:796,h:26},
{t:"11 Useful and extended article, touching on Lowell and Wilbur's and",p:185,x:94,y:345,w:739,h:26},
{t:"many other translations: argues for a free verse that renders nuances of",p:185,x:94,y:377,w:790,h:26},
{t:"meaning.",p:185,x:94,y:409,w:101,h:26},
{t:"17. Ted Hughes. Jean Racine: A New Translation by Ted Hughes. (Farrar,",p:185,x:94,y:460,w:798,h:26},
{t:"Straus and Giroux, 1998).",p:185,x:94,y:492,w:284,h:26},
{t:"18. Richard Wilbur. Jean Racine's Phaedra: Translated into English verse",p:185,x:94,y:544,w:790,h:26},
{t:"by Richard Wilbur (Dramatis Play Service, Inc., 1986).",p:185,x:94,y:575,w:593,h:26},
{t:"19. Lacy Lockert. The Best Plays of Racine: Translated by Lacy Lockert.",p:185,x:94,y:627,w:784,h:26},
{t:"(Princeton Univ. Press, 1936).",p:185,x:94,y:659,w:328,h:26},
{t:"20. Robert Lowell, Phaedra: Racine's Phaedra in an English version by",p:185,x:94,y:710,w:762,h:26},
{t:"Robert Lowell (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1960).",p:185,x:94,y:742,w:531,h:26},
{t:"21. Jean Racine: Phaedra: Translated by Robert Bruce Boswell.",p:185,x:94,y:794,w:688,h:26},
{t:"http://www.bartleby.com/26/3/",p:185,x:94,y:825,w:348,h:26},
{t:"22. Margaret Rawlings. Phèdre by Jean Racine: Translated by Margaret",p:185,x:94,y:877,w:774,h:26},
{t:"Rawlings (Penguin Books, 1961). Not great verse but a very actable",p:185,x:94,y:909,w:740,h:26},
{t:"version.",p:185,x:94,y:940,w:86,h:26},
{t:"23. Racine: Phaedra. http://www.tkline.freeuk.com/Phaedra.htm Rhymed",p:185,x:94,y:992,w:806,h:26},
{t:"translation by Tony Kline: generally faithful, but the verse needs work.",p:185,x:94,y:1024,w:771,h:26},
{t:"24. Racine: Phèdre. http://www.ac-",p:185,x:94,y:1075,w:391,h:26},
{t:"reunion.fr/pedagogie/lyvergerp/FRANCAIS/Phedre/Phedre.htm. Good",p:185,x:94,y:1107,w:757,h:26},
{t:"collection of articles and links.",p:185,x:94,y:1139,w:327,h:26},
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