THE MEDEA
In having this other wife as well as me, and I
Was mad. I should have helped you in these plan:
yours,
Have joined in the wedding, stood by the marriage bettT"
Have taken pleasure in attendance on your bride.
But we women are what we are—perhaps a little
Worthless; and you men must not be like us in this, 890
Nor be foolish in return when we are foolish.
Now, I give in, and admit that then I was wrong.
I have come to a better understanding now.
(She tarns toward the house.)
Children, come here, my children, come outdoors to us!
Welcome your father with me, and say goodbye to him, 895
And with your mother, who just now was his enemy,
Join again in making friends with him who loves us.
(Enter the children, attended by the Tutor.)
We have made peace, and all our anger is over.
Take hold of his right hand—O God, I am thinking
Of something which may happen in the secret future. 900
0 children, will you just so, after a long life,
Hold out your loving arms at the grave? O children,
How ready to cry I am, how full of foreboding!
1 am ending at last this quarrel with your father,
And, look my soft eyes have suddenly filled with tears. 905
Chorus
And the pale tears have started also in my eyes.
0 may the trouble not grow worse than now it is!
Jason
1 approve of what you say. And I cannot blame you
Even for what you said before. It is natural
For a woman to be wild with her husband when he 910
Goes in for secret love. But now your mind has turned
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