ACTUS QUINTUS
DANAIDES,
This also seems to us no easy task.
MEDEA.
He sleeps through noon, while others are abroad.
ALCESTIS.
Let us make haste! Dear queen, how good you are!
MEDEA.
One thing remember! While you say the spell—
Here is the parchment !—let no thought arise
In any of your minds!
atcestis. [Zo her Sisters.]
Remember that !
MEDEA.
Else—Ototototoi !
FIRST DANAID.
What woe is this?
MEDEA.
The charm is broken.
SECOND DANAID.
And our father-——
MEDEA.
Lost!
DANAIDES.
Ai Ai! Ai Ai! Ai Ai!
MEDEA.
Ai Ai! Ai Ai!