HIPPOLYTUS
I am near crying when I think that I
am judged to be guilty and that it is you who are judge.
Theseus
You might have sobbed and snivelled long ago,
and thought of that before when you resolved
to rape your father's wife.
Hippolytus
House, speak for me!
Take voice and bear me witness if I have sinned.	1075
Theseus
You have a clever trick of citing witnesses,
whose testimony is dumb. Here is your handiwork.
(Points to the body.)
It, too, can't speak—but it convicts you.
Hippolytus
If I could only find
another me to look me in the face
and see my tears and all that I am suffering!
Theseus
Yes, in self-worship you are certainly practiced.	1080
You are more at home there than in the othsr virtues,
justice, for instance, and duty toward a father.
Hippolytus
Unhappy mother mine, and bitter birth-pangs,
when you gave me to the world! I would not wish
on any of my friends a bastard's birth.
Thesus (to the servants)
Drag him away!
Did you not hear me, men, a long time since
proclaiming his decree of banishment?	1085
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