EURIPIDES
To better reasoning. In the end you have come to
The right decision, like the clever woman you are.
And of you, children, your father is taking care.
He has made, with God's help, ample provision for you.      915
For I think that a time will come when you will be
The leading people in Corinth with your brothers.
You must grow up. As to the future, your father
And those of the gods who love him will deal with that.
I want to see you, when you have become young men,         920
Healthy and strong, better men than my enemies.
Medea, why are your eyes all wet with pale tears?
Why is your cheek so white and turned away from me?
Are not these words of mine pleasing for you to hear?
Medea
It is nothing. I was thinking about these children.	925
Jason
You must be cheerful. I shall look after them well.
Medea
I will be. It is not that I distrust your words,
But a woman is a frail thing, prone to crying.
Jason
But why then should you grieve so much for these
children?
Medea
I am their mother. When you prayed that they might live   930
I felt unhappy to think that these things will be.
But come, I have said something of the things I meant
To say to you, and now I will tell you the rest.
Since it is the king's will to banish me from here—
And for me, too, I know that this is the best thing,	935
Not to be in your way by living here or in
The king's way, since they think me ill-disposed to
them—
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