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ACTUS SECUNDUS ARGUS. True, Theseus—if he had but hit his thumb! CASTOR. Cease this fool’s talk. The moon waits not the work. POLLUX. The sun will sink no later for your pleasure. On to thy work, man. THESEUS, He that traps a lion And baits him for an hour, and lets him go, Does well to think before he tempt again The forest paths. HERACLES. The wise man wisely thinks That nothing is but wisdom—and myself Think strongly that no other thing exists But strength: so with his subtleties of mind He baffles me; and I lift up my club, And with one blo…
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…ching well The mighty blows thou strikest: yet methinks One blow should serve to drive yon nail well home Where thou with tenfold stroke THESEUS. Good Heracles! Not all men owe thy strength—— ARGUS. Nay, let him try! Take my toy hammer! HERACLES, T have split the wood! THESEUS. Vexation sits tremendous on his brow. Beware a hero’s fury! Thou art mad, Argus, to play so dangerous a trick.
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…NDUS Have northern manners; surly if attacked But genial when—— ARGUS. The proper treatment is , Kindness—like lions whom Demeter tamed. THESEUS. I promise thee, the next time thou art wroth, A second kindness from Alcides’ hand. ARGUS. Spare me that, King, and take, thyself, a club. JASON. King Theseus, thou art far reputed wise. Hast thou not learnt a lesson from the hap Of Heracles supreme in—shipbuilding? I by my meekness will abash thy strength. Good Argus, thou art unsurpassed in art To curve the rougher timbers, to make smooth The joints…
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…lter, And life and her love be dead! In mysterious joy Awake—and destroy! JASON. It is enough! HERACLES. Too great for a god’s strength! THESEUS. Speak! CASTOR. Change! Not to be borne! POLLUX. But this is death! ORPHEUS, Let the light fade. The oracle is past. JASON. The Voice is past. We are alive again. ORPHEUS. What spake That Silence? HERACLES. “This is not a quest Where strength availeth aught.” I shall not go. JASON. Nay, brother. The voice was: “The end is sorrow!”
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ARGONAUTAE. ACTUS QUARTUS. Jason, MEDEA, ORPHEUS, THESEUS, HERACLES, Chorus of Heroes, the Sirens. ScENE: Zhe Argo. MEDEA. Ay! I would murder not my brother only, But tear my own limbs, strew them on the sea, To keep one fury from the man I love! CHORUS. This act and speech are much akin to madness. MEDEA. Remember that your own skins pay the price. CHORUS. I now remember somewhat of the voice Of the oracle, that Madness should hunt hard On the thief’s furtive track, upon the prow Brooding, and at the table president, And spouse-like in the bed…
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ARGONAUTAE. ACTUS SECUNDUS. Arcus ¢he son of Purixus, JASON, HERACLES, Castor, POLLUX, THESEUS, ORPHEUS. Chorus of Heroes. Chorus of Shipbuilders. Scene: An open place near Lolchus. CHORUS OF SHIPBUILDERS. The sound of the hammer and steel! The song of the level and line! The whirr of the whistling wheel! The ring of the axe on the pine! The joy of the ended labour, As the good ship plunges free By sound of pipe and tabor To front the sparkling sea! The mystery-woven spell! The voyage of golden gain! The free full sails that swell On the swell …
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…GUS. I talk, divulging nothing. HERACLES. I strike thee, Yet act not. ARGUS. Hero, stay that heavy hand! The ship shall sail ere spring. THESEUS. But now you talk More as befits a workman to a king. JASON. Be gentle now, my friends! These shipbuilders, Reared in the rugged borders of the North,
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…les have faded: was this vision true? HERACLES. I know not what hath passed: I seem asleep Still, with the dream yet racing in my brain, THESEUS. There was a sweetness: whether sight or song I know not. JASON. But my veins grew strong and swollen, And madness came upon me. MEDEA. You are here, Let that suffice. Remember not! ORPHEUS. ; But now I see the haze lift on the water-way, And hidden headlands loom again. JASON. I know The pleasant portals. CHORUS. Here is home at last. ORPHEUS. The sunset comes: the mist is lifted now To let the last k…
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16 ARGONAUTAE THESEUS. Ye heard not, O dull-witted! Unto me (Alone of all ye wise) the great voice came, “The Gates of Hell shall not in all prevail.” CASTOR. I heard, ‘‘ Regret not thy mortality! Love conquers death!” POLLUX. But I, “Regret not thou Thine immortality! Love conquers life!” ORPHEUS. A partial wisdom to a partial ear. JASON. But what speech came to thee? ORPHEUS. T heard no voice. ARGUS, What means this? Here’s my labour thrown away, My skill made jest of, all my wage destroyed At one fell stroke. JASON, What? Is the Argo burnt? …
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…st thus so pat. Perchance to thee These logs, nails, bolts, tools, have some life of sense, Some subtle language. Tell us what they say! THESEUS. ’Tis but a giber—leave the churl alone. JASON. Indeed I spake of things I knew not of. ARGUS. You speak more wisely when you float away Into pure dream, and talk of mystic things That no man born of woman understands, And therefore does not dare to contradict.
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…e out! Glorious task!—I shall return: anon. JASON. Nay, follow not! The Goddess were displeased, Coming, to find our greatest hero gone. THESEUS. This is the midmost hour of day. It
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…S. Be still, thou art an ass! ARGUS. The fabled ass, O Zeus-descended one? HERACLES. What ass? ARGUS. The one that wore the lion’s skin! THESEUS. This fellow were beneath a man’s contempt. How should a God-born heed him?