HIPPOLYTUS
You are destroyed.
Those you love have betrayed you.	595
Phaedra
She loved me and she told him of my troubles,
and so has ruined me. She was my doctor,
but her cure has made my illness mortal now.
Chorus Leader
What will you do? There is no cure.
Phaedra
I know of one, and only one—quick death.
That is the only cure for my disease.	600
(She retires into the palace through one of the side doors
just as Hippolytus issues through the central door,
dogged by the Nurse. Phaedra is conceived of as listen-
ing from behind her door during the entire conversation
between the Nurse and Hippolytus.)
Hippolytus
0	Mother Earth! O Sun and open sky!
What words I have heard from this accursed tongue!
Nurse
Hush, son! Someone may hear you.
Hippolytus
You cannot
expect that I hear horror and stay silent.
Nurse
1	beg of you, entreat you by your right hand,
your strong right hand, . . . don't speak of this!	605
Hippolytus
Don't lay your hand on me! Let go my cloaki
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