Phaedra · 1677
Act III, Scene 4
Translated by Robert Bruce Boswell
[Theseus, Hippolytus, Phaedra, Oenone, Theramenes.]
THESEUS.
Fortune no longer fights against my wishes,
Madam, and to your arms restores--
PHAEDRA.
Stay, Theseus!
Do not profane endearments that were once
So sweet, but which I am unworthy now
To taste. You have been wrong'd. Fortune has proved
Spiteful, nor in your absence spared your wife.
I am unfit to meet your fond caress,
How I may bear my shame my only care
Henceforth.
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Racine, Jean. Phaedra, Act III, Scene 4. Translated by Robert Bruce Boswell. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/phaedra-boswell/15/.
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Racine, Jean. Phaedra, Act III, Scene 4. Translated by Robert Bruce Boswell. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/phaedra-boswell/15/.