6479 lines
263 KiB
HTML
6479 lines
263 KiB
HTML
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nav + section,
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<h1 epub:type="title">Philoctetes</h1>
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<p>By <b epub:type="z3998:author z3998:personal-name">Sophocles</b>.</p>
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<p>Translated by <b epub:type="z3998:translator z3998:personal-name">Francis Storr</b>.</p>
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<h2 epub:type="title">Argument</h2>
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<p>Nine years before the play begins Philoctetes, afflicted by a noisome wound, had been landed by the Greek chiefs on the desert island of Lemnos. He bore with him the famous bow and arrows of Heracles; and without these, as a seer afterwards declared to them, Troy could not be taken. So Odysseus was commissioned to bring back by force or fraud the hero and his arms, and he took with him, to aid him in his purpose, the son of Achilles, Philoctetes’ dearest friend.</p>
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<p>When the play begins Odysseus has landed and is instructing Neoptolemus in his part. He is to find Philoctetes and reveal who he is, but pretend that he has come to take him back, not to Troy, but home to Greece. Neoptolemus at first indignantly declines the task and is hardly persuaded to play the traitor. He meets Philoctetes coming forth from his cave, makes himself known, and, to gain his confidence, relates fictitious wrongs that he, too, has suffered at the hands of the Greeks. He consents to take Philoctetes home, but as they are starting for the ship a merchant-captain appears (a sailor disguised by Odysseus) who tells them that the Greek captains have sent in pursuit of both. They hasten their departure, but first visit the cave that Philoctetes may fetch away the simples he needs to dress his wound. As he is leaving the cave Philoctetes is seized with a paroxysm of pain. Knowing that after such attacks deep slumber is wont to follow, he entrusts his bow and arrows to Neoptolemus who swears to keep them safe and restore them to their owner. On awakening he demands his bow, but Neoptolemus refuses to give it back and confesses the plot that Philoctetes now suspects. Stung by the denouncement of his treachery and the pathetic appeal to his better nature, Neoptolemus repents him and is in the act of restoring the bow, when Odysseus, who has been watching the scene in hiding, appears to prevent him. The bow Odysseus will have; Philoctetes may go or stay as he chooses. The pair depart together for the ships and Philoctetes is left behind with the chorus of sailors who endeavour to persuade him to return with them. But he is obdurate and they are about to leave him when Neoptolemus is seen hurrying back with the bow, closely followed by Odysseus who tries in vain to arrest him and threatens to denounce him as a traitor to the host. Philoctetes regains his bow and would have used it to let fly a mortal shaft at Odysseus, had not Neoptolemus stayed his hand. Again he is urged to go back to Troy and again he refuses. Neoptolemus true to his word, reluctantly agrees to convey him home. At this point an apparition is seen in the air above them, the divine form of Heracles, sent by Zeus from Olympus to bid Philoctetes go back to Troy with Neoptolemus and so fulfil the oracle. At last he bows to the will of Heaven.</p>
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<p>Philoctetes</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<p>Sailor (disguised as merchant captain)</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<p>Heracles</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li>
|
||
<p>Chorus, Scyrian sailors of Neoptolemus’ crew</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<p>Scene: Rocky coast on the island of Lemnos.</p>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="halftitlepage" epub:type="halftitlepage frontmatter">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="fulltitle">Philoctetes</h2>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="philoctetes" epub:type="z3998:drama z3998:scene bodymatter z3998:fiction">
|
||
<table>
|
||
<tbody>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</b>, <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</b>; in the background, a <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Son of Achilles, Neoptolemus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sprung from the noblest of the Grecian host,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This is the beach of Lemnos, sea-girt isle,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A land untrod, untenanted, where once,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As bidden by the chiefs, I put ashore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Malian, son of Poeas, grievously</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Afflicted by his foot’s envenomed wound.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For us there was no peace at sacrifice</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or at libations, but the whole camp rang</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With his discordant screams and savage yells,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Moaning and groaning. But what skills it now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To tell this tale? No time for large discourse</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That might betray our presence and undo</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The plot I’ve laid to catch him presently.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To work! it rests with thee to play thy part,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And help me to discover hereabouts</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A cave with double mouth by nature made</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To catch on either side the winter sun,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or by the breeze that through the archway blows</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Invite in summer’s heat to gentle sleep;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And lower down, a little to the left,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A spring, if still it flows, thou art like to find.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Go warily to work and bring me word,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whether he still is there or further gone.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That done, thy part will be to listen, mine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To instruct, that both may gain our common end.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No distant quest, my lord Odysseus, this;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Here, if I err not, is the cave thou seek’st.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Above me or below? I see it not.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Up there; but not a footfall can I hear.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Look if he be not gone within to rest.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The chamber’s empty; no man is within.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And no provision for a man’s abode?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Litter of trodden leaves as for a couch.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And is that all—no other sign of life?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A cup of uncouth handiwork, rough hewn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From out a log; some tinder, too, I see.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>These are his household treasures.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Faugh! and here</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Spread in the sun to dry, are filthy rags</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dank with the ooze of some malignant sore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>This clearly is his dwelling-place, and he</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hard by, for how could any travel far</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus maimed and hobbled by an ancient wound?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Either in quest of food, or else to find</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Some simples known to him as anodynes,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He’s gone abroad, and shortly will return;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So post thy henchman there to watch the path,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lest he surprise me. I of all the Greeks</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Am the one foe he liefest here would catch.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Guard shall be kept; my man is on his way;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now if thou hast more to say, say on. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exit Attendant.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Son of Achilles, not in thews alone</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or prowess must thou prove thy breed to-day.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If tasks be set thee that seem strange, no less</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou must perform them; therefore wast thou sent.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What is thy hest?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou must cajole and cheat</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The soul of Philoctetes by fair words,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And when he asks thee who and whence thou art,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Achilles’ son,” make answer; hide not this.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But add, “I am sailing homewards and have left</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The fleet in dudgeon, wroth against the chiefs</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who first prevailed on me to quit my home,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Because without me Troy could ne’er be taken,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And then upon my coming basely spurned</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My righteous title to Achilles’ arms,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And gave them to Odysseus.” At my name</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Heap on me every scoff and scorn and taunt;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It will not hurt me, but if thou should’st fail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Twill sorely vex the Argives one and all.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This man’s artillery we needs must have;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No hope to capture Troy-town otherwise.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why <em>thou</em> canst hold free converse with the man</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Securely and I cannot, thou shalt learn.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou wast not bound by oath or pledge to sail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor wast thou with the fleet that first embarked;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But naught of this, if taxed, can I deny.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Therefore, if, bow in hand, he counters me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I die, and shall involve thee in my death.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How to possess us of those matchless arms—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There is the puzzle; set thy wits to that.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I know, my son, thy honest nature shrinks</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From glozing words and practice of deceit;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But (for ’tis sweet to snatch a victory)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be bold to-day and honest afterwards.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For one brief hour of lying follow me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All time to come shall prove thy probity.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Son of Laertes, what upon my ear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Grates in the telling, I should hate to do.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such is my nature; any taint of guile</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I loathe, and such, they tell me, was my sire.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But I am ready, not by fraud, but force,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To bring the man; for, crippled in one foot,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Against our numbers he can prove no match.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nathless, since I was sent to aid thee, prince,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I fear to seem a laggard; yet prefer</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To fail with honour than succeed by fraud.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Son of a gallant sire, I too in youth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was slow of tongue and forward with my hand;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But I have learnt by trial of mankind</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mightier than deeds of puissance is the tongue.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>It comes to this that thou would’st have me lie.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Entangle Philoctetes by deceit.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Why not persuade him rather than deceive?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Persuasion’s vain, and force of no avail.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What arms hath he of such miraculous might?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Unerring arrows, tipp’d with instant death.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Might not a bold man come to grips with him?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No, as I told thee, guile alone avails.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou deem’st it, then, no shame to tell a lie?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not if success depends upon a lie.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>With what face shall one dare to speak such words?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>If thou wouldst profit thou must have no qualms.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What gain to <em>me</em>, should he be brought to Troy?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Without these arms Troy-town cannot be sacked.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ye told me <em>I</em> should take it. Was that false?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not thou apart from these nor these from thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The quarry’s worth the chase, if this be so.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Know that success a double meed shall win.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Make plain this twofold prize and I’ll essay,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou wilt be hailed as wise no less than brave.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I’ll do it—here’s my hand—and risk the shame.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Good. My instructions—thou rememberest them?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I have consented; trust me for the rest.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Stay here then and await his coming, whilst,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lest I should be espied, I go away</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And send back to the ship our sentinel;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But if ye seem to dally overmuch,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He shall return, the same man, but disguised</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Past recognition, as a sailor clad.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When he accosts thee, mark each word, my son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To catch the hid significance, for he</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will speak in riddles. This I leave to thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And seek the vessel. Hermes aid us both,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who sent us on our way, the God of cunning,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And she who never failed me yet, my queen,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Athenè Polias, queen of victory! <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exit <b>Odysseus</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus of Scyrian Sailors</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">What, O my master, what must I conceal</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">And what reveal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">In a strange land a stranger, by what wile</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">His shrewd suspects beguile?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Instruct me; for his art all art excels</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">With whom there dwells</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The sovereignty of Zeus, the Kingly Crown</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">That hath to thee come down,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">My son, by immemorial right divine;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Such skill is thine;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">So teach me, master, how I best may speed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Thy present need.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>First to find his lair, no doubt,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye are keen; so boldly scout.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When the wild man ye have spied</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who within this cave doth bide,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Watch the motions of my hand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Prompt to act as I command.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i1">Now, as at all times, Prince, I gladly heed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">And serve thy need.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">But first to learn his common haunts ’twere well;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">I pray thee tell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Lest he should light upon me unaware,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">His track, his lair.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i1">Say, if within his den he will be found,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i3">Or roaming round.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>See you that two-mouthed cavern? There</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His rocky dwelling-place.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And where</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is the sad inmate of the grot?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I doubt not somewhere near the spot,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Gone forth in search of daily food,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Dragging his steps through wold or wood;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For so, ’tis said, by toilsome pains</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A painful sustenance he gains,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shooting whatever living thing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Comes within reach of his dread bow.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The years go by and never bring</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A leach to heal his woe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O how piteous thy lot,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Luckless man, by man forgot;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>None thy solitude to share,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>None to tend with loving care;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Plagued and stricken by disease,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Never knowing hour of ease,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Facing death each moment, how</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hast, poor wretch, endured till now?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O the crooked ways of heaven!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hapless men to whom are given</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lots so changeful, so uneven.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He who with the best might vie,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of our Grecian chivalry.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On a desert island left,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perishes, of all bereft;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With the savage beasts doth dwell</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of spotted hide or shaggy fell;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pangs of hunger doth endure,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Racked with aches that know no cure.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Echo, too, with babbling tongue,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As she sits her hills among,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Iterates in undertones</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His interminable groans.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nothing strange I see in this</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By heaven ordained (if not amiss</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I augur) comes this punishment,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By the unpitying Chrysè<a href="#note-1" id="noteref-1" epub:type="noteref">1</a> sent;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And what he suffers now must be</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Designed by some wise deity,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lest too soon ’gainst Troy should go</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The arrows of his wizard bow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For when the fated hour has come</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By them must Troy-town find its doom.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 3</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hush, my son!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Wherefore?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Back.</i>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<div epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hist! there comes a sound</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As of one sore afflicted. Is it here</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or here? ’Tis nearer now, I look around,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The footfall of a laboured tread grows clear;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now, though distant still, I catch a cry</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Distinct, the voice of human agony.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 3</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Bethink thee, Prince.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Of what?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Some fresh device;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For now the man approaches very near.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This is no shepherd-swain who homeward hies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No melody of pastoral pipe I hear;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But as he stumbles ’mid the jagged stones</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He rends the air with far resounding groans,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or as he eyes the sea without a sail,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He utters (hear his voice!) a hideous wail.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Sirs, who are ye and whence, who have landed here</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon this harbourless and desolate shore?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What countrymen and of what race? If I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Might make conjecture by your garb and mien,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye are Greeks—a sight most welcome to my eyes;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But I would hear your voices. Shrink not back</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In horror at my savage aspect; speak;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pity a lonely, friendless, stricken man</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus stranded; if indeed as friends ye come,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Make answer, I entreat ye; fair reply</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I may expect from you, as you from me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, I will answer first thy question, Sir;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou hast conjectured rightly, we are Greeks.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O welcome utterance! Ah, how good to hear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Those accents, long unheard, from one like thee!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What quest, my son, what venture brought thee here,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What breeze compelled thy canvas? Happy breeze!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Speak, tell me all, that I may know my friend.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My home’s the wave-lapped Scyros, and I sail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Homewards; my name is Neoptolemus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My sire Achilles. Now thou knowest all.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Son of a sire most dear, and land most dear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Old Lycomedes’ foster-child, what quest</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Has brought thee hither, from what port didst sail?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hither I sailed direct from Ilium.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>From Ilium? Surely thou wast not on board</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When first our expedition sailed for Troy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What, wert thou partner in that enterprise?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Dost thou not know with whom thou speak’st, my son?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How should I know a man ne’er seen before?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Know’st thou not e’en my name? hast never heard</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How I was wasting inch by inch away?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Of all thou questionest I nothing know.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O what a heaven-forsaken wretch am I,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of whose disastrous plight no rumour yet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hath reached my home or any Grecian land!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But they, the godless knaves who cast me forth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Laugh and are mute. My malady the while</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rankles, and daily grows from bad to worse.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O boy, O son sprung from Achilles’ loins,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am that man, of whom thou mayst have heard,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Heritor of the bow of Heracles,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The son of Poeas, Philoctetes, whom</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Atridae and the Cephallenian prince</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cast forth thus shamelessly, a derelict,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Plague-stricken, wasting slowly, marked for death</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By a man-slaying serpent’s venomous fangs.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus plagued, my son, they left me here, what time</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their fleet from sea-girt Chrysè touched this shore.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Tired with long tossing I had fallen asleep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beneath a rock upon the beach; they laughed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To see me witless, laughed and sailed away,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Flinging me, as they went, some cast-off rags,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A beggar’s alms, and scraps of food. God grant</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That they may some day come to fare like me!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Picture, my son, when I awoke and found</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All gone, what waking then was mine; what tears,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What lamentations, when I saw the ships</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In which I sailed all vanished; not a soul</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To share my solitude or tend my wound.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All ways I gazed and nothing found but pain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pain, and of pain, God wot, enow, my son.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So passed the crawling hours, day upon day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Year after year. I shifted for myself</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Beneath this homeless, solitary roof.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To sate my hunger with this bow I shot</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The wingèd doves and ever when my bolt</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sped from the taut string to the mark, I crawled</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thither my lamed foot trailing painfully.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And if of water I had need, or when</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In winter time the ground was hoar with frost,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And firewood must be fetched, forth would I creep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Somewise to compass this. I had no fire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But from the hard rock striking flint on flint</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Brought forth the hidden spark that keeps me alive.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For, look ye, a bare roof and fire withal</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Serve all my needs, save healing of my sore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now let me tell thee of this isle, my son.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No mariner sails hither of his will,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For anchorage is none, nor mart whereat</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He may find lodging and exchange his wares</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For profit; prudent men sail not this way.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet a stray visitor—such accidents</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Must happen in long years—puts in perforce.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From such, my son, when they do come, I get</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Kind words of pity and perchance an alms</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of food or raiment, but at the first hint</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of passage home, they one and all refuse.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So here for ten long years I linger on,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Consumed with hunger, dying inch by inch;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Only the worm that gnaws me dieth not.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the Atridae and Odysseus, boy,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I owe this misery. God in heaven requite</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In kind the wrongs that they have done to me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O son of Poeas, I too pity thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No less methinks than did those visitors.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And I myself am witness that thy tale</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is true; for I have proved the villainy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the Atridae, and Odysseus too.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What have those cursed Atridae wrongèd <em>thee</em>?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Art thou too stirred to anger by some wrong?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O that my wrath might vent itself in deeds!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mycenae then and Sparta both would learn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That Scyros too is mother of brave sons.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well said, my son! But I would know the grounds</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of thy resentment, what the charge thou bring’st,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why thou art here.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I scarce know how, O son</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Poeas, yet I’ll tell the tale of wrongs</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I suffered on my coming at their hands.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When by the doom of Fate Achilles died—</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Woe’s me! No more; first tell me, is he dead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The son of Peleus?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He is dead indeed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Slain by no man but by a god; a shaft</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pierced him; by Phoebus sped, so runs the tale.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Noble alike the slayer and the slain!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I know not whether first, my son, to make</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Inquiry of thy woes or weep for him.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou hast enough of thine own pains, poor soul,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Without lamenting for another’s woe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>True, true indeed! So tell me once again</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From the beginning how they outraged thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>To fetch me in a gay decked galley came</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Odysseus and my father’s foster-sire.<a href="#note-2" id="noteref-2" epub:type="noteref">2</a></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They told me (if the tale was true or feigned</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I know not) that, my father having fallen,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No hand but mine could take the Citadel.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus urged I did not dally or delay.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Forthwith I sailed. Chiefly I longed to see</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My father whom in life I had not seen,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before his burial, and in part, I own,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The promise fair that I should take Troy-town</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Flattered my pride. Well, on the second day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With oars and breeze to speed us, we had reached</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sigeum (hateful name) and when I landed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The whole host pressed to greet me, and they swore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They saw Achilles come to life again.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There lay my sire in death, and I, poor fool,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When I had mourned for him a while, betook me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the Atridae as my natural friends,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Claiming my sire’s arms and what else was his.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O ’twas a sorry answer that they made:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Child of Achilles, all that was thy sire’s</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is thine and welcome—all except his arms;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These to Laertes’ son have been assigned.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I wept, I started to my feet in wrath,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And bitterly I spake, “O tyrannous men,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How dare ye give these arms, my own by right,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My leave unasked, to any man but me?”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then said Odysseus who was standing by,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Yes, boy, and rightly are they given to me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who rescued both their master and his arms.”<a href="#note-3" id="noteref-3" epub:type="noteref">3</a></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I boiled with rage, I hurled at him abuse</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bitterest tongue could frame, I cursed the man</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who would defraud me of my rightful arms.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He, though not choleric, challenged thus direct,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stung to the quick by my retort, replied:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Thou wast not with us, a malingerer thou!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Take this for answer to thy blustering boasts:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To Scyros with these arms thou ne’er shalt sail.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus flouted and abused I left the host,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now am sailing homewards, robbed by him,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Odysseus, the base villain, basely born.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet is he less to blame than those who rule;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For like a commonwealth each armèd host</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perforce is subject to authority,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And all the lawless doings in the world</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Spring from ill teaching. All my tale is told.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But whoso hates the Atridae, as do I,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>May he find Heaven, no less than me, his friend!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O mother Earth, enthronèd on the hills,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Mother of Zeus himself, who feedest all;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From thee Pactolus draws his brimming rills,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">His golden sands; Mother, to thee I call,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As once I called when, flushed with upstart pride,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The fierce Atridae ’gainst my master raged,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(O lady who on yokèd lions doth ride,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Their bloody ravening by thee assuaged,)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What time the tyrants to Laertes’ son</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The guerdon gave, those arms his sire had won.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Good sirs, ye bring me as a talisman,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A common grief; a plaint attuned to mine.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Full well I recognise in this your tale</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Atridae and Odysseus. He, I warrant,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would have a hand and lend his tongue to abet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Any conspiracy, any deep-laid plot,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If he could compass some dishonest end.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This is not wonderful; but was indeed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The greater Ajax by, to see and brook it?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ajax, my friend, was dead; had he been living</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They would not thus have robbed me and despoiled.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What say’st thou, boy? is he too dead and gone?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea he hath left the light.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alas, alas!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But not the son of Tydeus, nor the son</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Named of Laertes, bred of Sisyphus;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They die not who should never have been born.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not they indeed, I warrant; they live on,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in the Argive host are mighty men.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>And what of him, my good old friend and true,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Pylian Nestor, lives he not? for he</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Oft by his wisdom checked their ill designs.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He is not what he once was, since he lost</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His best belovèd son, Antilochus.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alas! thou tell’st me of a double loss,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The two men whom of all I least could spare.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ah me! What hope is there when two such men</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are taken and Odysseus lives, whose death</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Instead of theirs thou hadst by rights announced?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A cunning gamester, but the cunningest,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O Philoctetes, are full often thrown.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But tell me, prithee, where was he the while,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Patroclus, once thy father’s bosom friend?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Dead like the rest, for this in sooth is true:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>War never slays an evil man by choice,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But still the good.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In that I’ll bear thee out.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By the same token, I would ask of one,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A worthless wight, but shrewd and glib of tongue.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou mean’st Odysseus, surely?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not of him</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I asked, but of Thersites, one whose tongue</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was ever wagging most when wanted least,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>An empty babbler. Know’st thou if he lives?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I saw him not, but heard he was alive.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I thought as much; for evil never dies,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fostered too well by gods who take delight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Methinks, to turn back from the gates of hell</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All irredeemable rascality,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But speed the righteous on their downward way.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What should I deem of this, how justify</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The ways of Heaven, finding Heaven unjust?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>For my part, son of an Oetean sire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I shall take heed henceforward to behold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Troy and the two Atridae from afar.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where villainy to goodness is preferred,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And virtue withers, and the base hold sway,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such company I never will frequent.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Enough for me henceforth my native rocks,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My island home in Scyros; there I’ll bide.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now to the ships. Farewell, a fond farewell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O son of Poeas; may the gods fulfil</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy heart’s desire and heal thee of thy wound!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now we must leave thee and prepare to sail</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whene’er the gods shall send a favouring breeze.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So soon, my son, departing?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis high time,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not here, but from the strand to watch the tide.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh! in thy father’s, in thy mother’s name,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By all the sanctities of home, my son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Leave me not, I adjure thee, here alone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Abandoned to such ills as thou hast seen</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And others worse whereof thou hast been told.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Think of me as a stowaway! well I know</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The irksomeness of such a passenger.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bear it! to true nobility of soul</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All shame is shameful, honour honourable.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And it would smirch thine honour to decline</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This task, my son; to do it, bring thee fame</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And glory, if ye carry me alive</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To Oeta. Come, ’tis but a day’s annoy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Take heart of courage; stow me where thou wilt—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The hold, the bows, the stern, no matter where—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wherever I shall least offend my mates.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By Zeus, the god of suppliants, O consent,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O hearken! at thy knees I fall, albeit</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A cripple maimed and helpless. Leave me not</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>An outcast in a land where no man dwells;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But either take me safe to thine own home,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or to Euboea and Chalcodon’s realm,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whence I may cross to Oeta (’tis not far)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the Trachinian passes and the stream</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of broad Spercheius, and behold once more</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My father. Ah! these weary years I’ve feared</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He must be dead, for messages full oft</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I sent by those who passed my way, entreating</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That he would fetch me in his own ship home.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But either he is dead, or, like enough,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My envoys (’tis the way of envoys) recked</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Little of my concerns and hastened home.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But now to thee, my messenger at once</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And saviour, I appeal; save, pity me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Seeing upon how slippery a place</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fortune for mortals and misfortune stand.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Therefore the man that lives at ease should look</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For rocks ahead, and when he prospers most</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Watch lest he suffer shipwreck unawares.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Pity, my chief!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Pity a tale of agonizing grief!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Pray God no friend</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of mine may ever come to such an end!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">O pity him!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I know thou hatest, prince, the Atridae grim;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Turn to his gain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The villainy they plotted for his bane.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">O take him home!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With him let our brave vessel cleave the foam;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">There would he be;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus from the dread Avengers shall we flee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>See that your present kindliness be not</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A passing mood, lest after, when ye come</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In closer contact with his malady,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye falter and belie these promises.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No, I shall ne’er be open to such charge.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Twere shame indeed should I less zealous prove</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Than thou to help a stranger in his need.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So, if you please, we’ll sail; let him aboard;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our ship methinks will not refuse her aid.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Only may heaven convey us from this shore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Safe to the haven whither we would sail!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O gladdest day, O dearest, dearest friend,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And ye, kind sailors, would that I could prove</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By acts my heartfelt gratitude! My son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let us be going, but before I go</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Salute this homeless home, that thou mayst learn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How hard my life, how great my hardihood.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I think scarce any other man than I,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Had he but seen it once, could have endured;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But I was schooled by hard necessity. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction"><b epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</b> is about to enter the cave with him.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Stay, for I see two men approach, the one</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A sailor from thy ship, and one a stranger.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>First let us learn their errand, then go in.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Two Sailors</b>, one disguised as a Merchant Captain.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Son of Achilles, finding I was moored</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the same roadstead as thyself (by chance</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not of intent), I asked thy shipmate here,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who with two other hands was left aboard</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On guard, to tell me where thou might’st be found.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For I, the captain of a single craft,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was on my way from Ilium, homeward bound,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To Peparethus, for its vintage famed;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And learning that the crew I met ashore</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Were all thy fellow-voyagers, I thought</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It would be well, before I sailed away,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To have a word with thee and earn my dues.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I doubt thou knowest naught of thy concerns—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What new designs the Argives have upon thee:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Designs, say I? Nay rather, plots full hatched.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I shall remember, sir, thy zealous care</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On my behalf; I am no graceless churl.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But tell me more precisely: let me learn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These strange designs against me of the Greeks.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Old Phoenix has embarked with Theseus’ sons</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On a war galley in pursuit of thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>To bring me back by force or of my will?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know not; I report but what I heard.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Are Phoenix and his co-mates fired with zeal</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To pleasure the Atridae? can this be?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis no surmise of mine; they are on the way.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>How came it that Odysseus had no mind</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To sail on his own business? Was he afraid?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>He and the son of Tydeus were engaged</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In quest of yet another, when I sailed.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Another? Who this second man for whom</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Odysseus sailed himself?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A certain one …</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stay, who is this beside thee? tell me first</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His name, and breathe it softly in my ear.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>This, sir, is Philoctetes of world fame.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Stop not for further questioning! Remove!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fly with all speed thou mayest from this land.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What says he, boy? What does he whisper thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As though I were a piece of merchandise.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know not yet, but he shall tell his tale</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Aloud, for thee and me and these to hear.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Child of Achilles, charge me not to the host</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For blabbing secrets. I’m a poor man and</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Greatly beholden to the generals,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who’ve paid me for my service handsomely.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The Atridae are my enemies, and this man</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Because he hates them is my dearest friend.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, if indeed thou comest as a friend,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou art bound to tell me all that thou hast learnt.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Take heed, boy, what thou’rt asking.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I have heeded.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then thou must bear the consequence.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Say on.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hear then: the two I named, Odysseus and</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The son of Tydeus now are hither bound</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To fetch this man, and they have sworn an oath</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To bring him by persuasion or by force.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This by Odysseus plainly was professed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In presence of the host; for he, more bold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Than his co-partner, staked his credit on it.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But wherefore now, after the lapse of years</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Should the Atridae be concerned about</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A man they had abandoned and forgot?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Was it compassion touched them, or the dread</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of retribution and the avenging gods?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A matter that perchance to thee is strange</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I will unfold. There was a high born seer,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A son of Priam, Helenus was his name.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Him that vile wretch—what epithet can match</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His utter villainy?—that sly old fox,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Odysseus, on a nightly prowl waylaid,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bound, and displayed him to the Argive host,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A goodly prize. Much else of grave import</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The prophet uttered, and he spake this word:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“Ne’er can ye take the citadel of Troy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till by persuasion ye have won him over</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And brought him from the island where he bides.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hearing the prophet’s word, Odysseus straight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Engaged himself to bring the man away</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And show him to the host. “Willing” (he said),</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>“I hope, but at the worst, against his will.”</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He staked his head on the venture; any one</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who chose might be his headsman if he failed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou hast heard all, my son; be warned in time;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Take heed for thine own safety and thy friend’s.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah me! did that arch-felon swear indeed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To bring me by persuasion to the Greeks?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As soon by prayers shall I be brought again</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From death, as was his father,<a href="#note-4" id="noteref-4" epub:type="noteref">4</a> to the light.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailor</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That’s not for me to say, I must be going</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To join my ship. Farewell, and may the gods</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be with you both and order all things well.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What say’st thou, boy? That he, Laertes’ son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Should think to wheedle me aboard his ship,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And make a show of me to the Greek host!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Is it not monstrous? Sooner would I heed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My mortal foe, the snake that crippled me.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But he—no word, no practice is too vile</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For him to stick at. He will come for sure.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Haste thee, my son, and put a many leagues</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of ocean ’twixt Odysseus and our ship.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bestir ye! Who in season labours best,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His labours ended, has the sweetest rest.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All in good time; soon as the headwind drops</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We will weigh anchor; now ’tis in our teeth.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>To those who fly from ill all winds are fair.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But this wind’s contrary for them no less.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>For pirates no wind’s adverse, when there’s chance</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of pillaging or robbery under arms.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, as thou will’st, we’ll sail; but from the cave</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Take anything thou needest or dost prize.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My store is scant, but certain things I need.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What that thou wilt not find on board my ship?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A herb of wondrous virtue wherewithal</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I use to mollify and lull my wound.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then bring it with thee. What else wouldst thou take?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Some shafts, that may have dropped by accident,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lest a chance-comer find them, I would fetch.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Is that then in thy hands the famous bow?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>This and none other is the famous bow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>May I have leave to gaze upon it close,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Handle it, aye adore it as a god?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Right willingly, my son, and aught beside</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That I can do to profit thee, command.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I have this longing, I confess, but if</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My longing seem not lawful, let it be.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A pious scruple; but this privilege,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My son, is thine by right, for thou alone</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hast given me to behold the light of day,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And Oeta, and my aged sire, and friends;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For when I lay beneath my enemies’ heel,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Twas thou upliftedst me above their heads,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It shall be thine to handle and return;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fear not, and thou shalt boast that thou alone</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of mortals, for thy worth, hast handled it.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Twas for a service done it came to me.<a href="#note-5" id="noteref-5" epub:type="noteref">5</a></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis pleasant to have found and proved a friend;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For him who good for good returns I hold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A friend more precious than unnumbered gold.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now go within.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That will I, and entreat</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thine escort, for my ailment craves thine aid.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">They enter the cave.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I saw him not, yet fame affirms the tale</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of one who dared the bed of Zeus assail.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Him to the wheel that never stays its round</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of torture, the great son of Kronos bound.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">But, save of him alone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To me no sadder fate is known</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Than of this saddest wight,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Or by report or sight:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Poor innocent who here to death art done!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2"><em>He</em> robbed or wrongèd none</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I marvel how thus desolate, all forlorn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These long long years of anguish he hath borne,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hearing the breakers gride the cold grey stones,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Himself for neighbour to himself he groans;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Limping with crippled feet,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">He treads his weary beat;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">No comrade by</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">To give him sigh for sigh,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No friend in whose responsive ear to pour</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His woes—the anguish of his festering sore;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">To quell the burning rage,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The throbs assuage</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With simples gathered from the kindly soil;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But ’twixt the spasms he must crawl and moil</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To find the herb, a spell to lay the curse,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Like some weak infant parted from its nurse.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Not his to sow the seed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Or on the largesse feed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That boon earth showers on all the sons of men;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Happy, if now and then</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bolt from his unerring bow can wing</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Some living thing.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Poor wretch, who ten long years athirst did pine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Without one draught of soul-refreshing wine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">But sought some stagnant pool</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">His parchèd throat to cool.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div>
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now hath he found a champion good and true,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And by his woes ennobled shall renew</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His pristine fame. The tale of months complete,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Home shall he journey with our homing fleet.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There on Spercheios’ marge, his ancient home,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The haunt of Malian naiads, he shall roam,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Where the famed hero of the brazen shield,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His full divinity in flames revealed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And in a fiery car ascending high</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O’er Oeta was translated to the sky.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Be moving if it please thee … Why, what means</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This sudden silence, this amazedness?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah me! Ah me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What is it?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A mere nothing, boy; go on.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou feelest thine old malady again?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No, a mere twinge; I think ’tis passing now—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O God!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Why groan aloud and call on God?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>To save me and deliver me. … Ah me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What ails thee? Wilt not tell me? Wilt not speak?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That something troubles thee is very plain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My son, I am lost, undone! Impossible</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To hide it longer from you; lost, undone!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It stabs me, stabs me through and through and through.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ah me! ah me! ah me!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For heaven’s sake, if thou hast a sword at hand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Draw it, my son, strike swiftly, at a stroke</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Cut off this foot, no matter if it kill me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Quick, quick, my son!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What is this sudden fit</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That makes thee moan so and bewail thyself?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou knowest, boy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What is it?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou knowest.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What ails thee?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Knowest thou not? Ah me! Ah me!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The burden of thy pain is terrible.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, terrible, past words. O pity me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What shall I do?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Fear me not, leave me not:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My ailment loves to play the truant, stray</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Awhile, and then come home again, belike</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Tired with its holiday.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alas! poor wretch,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wretched indeed in all thy suffering proved.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wilt lean on me? Shall I take hold of thee?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay touch me not, I beg, but take this bow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Which thou didst crave to handle, and until</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The spasm that now disables me is gone,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Keep it and guard it well; for when the fit</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Passes, a drowsiness comes over me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And sleep’s the only medicine that gives ease.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So let me slumber undisturbed, and if</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span><em>They</em> come the while, I charge thee, boy, by heaven,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Let them not have it, yield not up the bow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Willing or nilling, or by force or fraud;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lest thou should’st prove a double murderer,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And slay thyself and me thy suppliant.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I will be vigilant, fear not; none shall have it</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But thou and I alone; so give it to me.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Good luck attend it!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Take it then, my son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But first propitiate the Jealous God,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lest it should prove to thee a bane, as erst</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To me and to its former lord it proved.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Heaven grant this prayer to both of us, and grant</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A fair and prosperous voyage whithersoe’er</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our destined course is set and heaven ordains!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alas, my son! I fear thy prayers are vain;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For once again upwelling from the wound</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The black blood trickles auguring a relapse.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Out, out upon thee, damnèd foot! Alack!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What plague hast yet in store for me? Alack!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It prowls, it stalks amain, ready to spring.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Woe! Now ye know my torture, leave me not!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ah me! Ah me!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would God, O Cephallenian, through thy breast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>This spasm might pass and hold thee in its grip!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Woe’s me and woe once more! Ye generals twain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Menelaus, Agamemnon, might this worm</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Devour your vitals no less time than mine!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O Death, Death, Death! how is it that invoked</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Day after day, thou canst not heed my call?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Boy, noble boy, of thy nobility</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Take me and in yon fires, as Lemnian famed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Consume me: even as when myself I dared</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To do like service for the son of Zeus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And won for meed the bow thou bearest now.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Speak! answer! why thus absent, O my son?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My heart was heavy, musing on thy woes.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay, be of better cheer, my son; this pain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As in its onset sudden, so departs.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Only, I pray thee, leave me not alone.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Take heart; we’ll stay.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou wilt?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In sooth I will.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>It were not meet to bind thee with an oath.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I am bound in honour not to leave thee here.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thy hand upon it.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Here’s my hand in pledge.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then yonder, let me yonder—</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Whither then?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Up higher—</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Art thou wandering once again?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why starest at the firmament on high?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Let me go.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Whither?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Let me go, I say.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou shalt not.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Touch me not, ’twould be my death.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, I release thee. Thou art calmer now.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Take me, O Earth, a dying man, so near</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His end with sickness that he cannot stand.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Methinks in no long time he’ll be asleep;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For, see, his head sinks backward, and o’er all</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His body, look you, trickle beads of sweat,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And from an artery in his wounded foot</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The black blood spurts. So let us leave him, friends</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In peace and quiet till he fall asleep.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Sleep immune of cares,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i6">Sleep that knows not cumber,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Breathe thy softest airs,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i6">Prince of painless slumber!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">O’er his eyes alway</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Let thy dream-light play;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Healer come, we pray.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">My son, bethink thee how</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i6">Thou standest, and what next</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Thou purposest; not now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i6">The time to halt perplexed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Why longer here remain?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Ever occasion ta’en</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">At the full flood brings gain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>We might escape and steal his bow indeed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(He hears us not); but little should we speed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Without the man. Himself he must be brought,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So the God bade; he is the prize we sought;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He crowns our triumph, and ’twere double shame</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Falsely a fraud-won victory to claim.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Far things with Heaven lie,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Look thou to what is near,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, when thou mak’st reply,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Low breathe it in my ear:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sleepless the sick man’s sleep,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Quick-eared to catch each sound;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His eyes, though closed, yet keep</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Sharp watch around.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Wherefore explore in stealth, my son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How what thou dost may best be done.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If thy plan be still the same,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What it is I need not name,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Plain to one who looks before</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are his troubles vast and sore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The breeze sets fair, sets fair, my son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">And there outstretched he lies</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">As one who hath nor ears nor eyes.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(How good to sleep i’ the sun!)</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of hand or foot, no motion has he, none</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">More than the dead who in Earth’s bosom rest.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then look, my son, look that thou utterest</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sane counsels. If a plain man might advise</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy wisdom, the discreetest way is best.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Silence, and keep your wits; his eyes begin</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To open and he raises now his head.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O sweet to wake to the broad day and find,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What least I hoped, my kindly guardians by.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For this, my son, I never had presumed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To hope, that thou would’st thus compassionately</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wait to attend my woes and minister.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Atridae, those brave captains never showed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Courage to bear them patiently. But thou</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By nature noble as by birth, my son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mad’st light of all the sores to eye and ear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And nostrils, that my malady inflicts.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But now at last, ’twould seem, a lull has come,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A respite and oblivion of my ills;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Raise me thyself, boy, set me on my feet,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That, when the attack has wholly spent itself,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We may aboard and instantly set sail.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Right glad am I to see thee breathing still,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Alive, beyond all hope, and freed from pain;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For to appearance thou didst bear the seal</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And signature of death. Now raise thyself,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or if thou choosest, these shall carry thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such service will they readily perform,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Since thou and I alike are thus resolved.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I thank thee, son, and, if it pleaseth thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Raise me thyself and spare thy men this task,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lest they be sickened with my fetidness</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before the time; they’ll have enough to bear</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With me for messmate when we are aboard.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So be it; now, stand up, lay hold of me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Fear not, long use and wont has taught me how.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ye Gods! What now remains for me to do?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What is it, my son, what mean these whirling words?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I speak perplextly, know not how to speak.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What can perplex thee? say not so, my son.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Too deep involved, I cannot otherwise.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What! the offensiveness of my complaint</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Will stay thee now from taking me aboard?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>All is offensive when a man is false</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To his true self and, knowing right, does wrong.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But thou dost naught in word or deed to shame</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy birth in succouring a worthy man.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I shall be proved a rogue; this tortures me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not in thy deeds—thy words do give me pause.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>God help me now! Must I appear twice base,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hide what I should not and my shame reveal?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The youth, if I misjudge him not, intends</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To play me false and leave me stranded here.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Leave thee? Not so, but what will irk thee more,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Convey thee hence. ’Tis this that tortures me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thy words are dark, I cannot catch their drift.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I will be plain and round with thee. To Troy</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou sailest, to the Atridae and the host.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Alas! What say’st thou?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Murmur not but hear me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hear me, quoth he! what wilt thou do with me?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>First from this misery rescue thee, and then,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With thee to aid me, ravage Ilium.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Wilt thou indeed do this?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Necessity</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Leaves me no choice; so take it not amiss,</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Me miserable! I am undone, betrayed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How hast thou used me, sir! I charge thee straight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Give back my bow!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That cannot be, for I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By policy and duty both am bound</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To obey my chiefs.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou fire, thou utter monster,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Abhorrèd masterpiece of knavery,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How hast thou served me, cheated me, abused?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Art not ashamed to look on me, thou wretch,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy suppliant, thy bedesman? Robbing me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of this my bow thou robbest me of life.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Restore it, I beseech thee, O my son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Oh, an thou lov’st me, give me back my bow;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Rob me not, by thy gods I pray, of life!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ah me! he turns away, he will not speak;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His silence says he will not give it back.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ye creeks, ye promontories, dens and lairs</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of mountain beasts, ye cliffs precipitous,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To you—none else will heed me—I appeal,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>On you, familiars of my woes, I call;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hear what I suffer from Achilles’ son!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He swore to bring me home again, and now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To Troy he takes me; on his plighted troth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I gave, he keeps my bow, the sacred bow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That erst to Zeus-born Heracles belonged,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To flout it ’fore the Argive host as his;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He takes me hence his prisoner, as if</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His arm had captured some great warrior,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And sees not he is slaying a dead man,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A shade, a wraith, an unsubstantial ghost;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For in my strength he had not ta’en me, no,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor as I am, disabled, save by guile.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But now, entrapped, ah whither shall I turn?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Have pity, give me, give me back my bow!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be once again thy true self, even now.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What answer? None. O woe is me, I am lost!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O cave with double mouth, to thee I turn;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Stripped of my arms and lacking means of life,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Here shall I wither in this lonely cell.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No bird of air, no beast of the upland wold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yon bow shall slay, but dying I shall make</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A feast for those who fed me when alive,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A quarry for the creatures I pursued,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My blood for their blood shed. And this I owe</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To one who seemed a child in innocence.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My curse upon thee—nay I will forbear,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Till first I hear whether thou wilt repent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or not; if no, die blasted by my curse!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What shall we do, prince? ’tis for thee to say</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whether we sail or hearken to his prayer.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My heart is strangely wrought, and from the first</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I have been moved with pity for the man.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In heaven’s name show mercy, let not men</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Brand thee as my betrayer, O my son!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What shall I do? Would I had never left</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Scyros, to fall into this desperate plight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou art not base, but coming here wast schooled</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To play the rogue by villains; leave that part</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To others framed by nature to be rogues.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sail hence, but ere thou sail give back my arms.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What shall we do, friends?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction"><b epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</b> appears suddenly from behind the cave.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Wretch, what art thou at?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Back with thee, sirrah! give the bow to me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah who is here? Is that Odysseus’ voice?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Odysseus, as thou seeest. Here am I.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh I am sold, betrayed. So it was he</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who trapped me and bereft me of my arms.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I and no other. I avow ’twas I.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Give back my bow, son, give it.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That he shall not,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’en if he would; and what is more, thou with it</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Must go, or these shall drag thee hence by force.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou brazen-facèd villain, shall thy knaves</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Drag <em>me</em> by force?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yea, if thou’lt not consent.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O Lemnian land, O all-subduing fires</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Lit by Hephaestus,<a href="#note-6" id="noteref-6" epub:type="noteref">6</a> will ye suffer it,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That yonder man should hale me from your realm?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis Zeus, I tell thee, Zeus who rules this land,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Zeus thus ordains; I am his minister.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O monstrous fiend, what pleas thou canst invent!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Gods thou invokest and wouldst make them liars.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay, they are true. But thou must march with us.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Never!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But I say yes; consent thou must.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh I was born to sorrow, so it seems;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No free man but a slave my sire begot.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay, but a peer of paladins, ordained</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To storm proud Troy and lay it in the dust.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Never! not even in my utmost need,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whilst under me I feel this steep of rock.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What would’st thou do?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Leap from the crags above</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And dash my brains out on the crags below.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Lay hold of him, seize either arm, prevent him!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Oh hands, how ill ye fare, made prisoners</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By that man, all for lack of my good bow.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou very churl, corrupt in heart and soul,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How hast thou circumvented me again,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Making this stranger boy thy stalking horse,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fit mate for me, too good for thine ally,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy tool who merely did as he was bidden,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And even now is plainly penitent</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Both for his error and the wrong to me.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But thou, like some vile prompter in the dark,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wast ever by to give the cue, and though</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Unapt and loth, he learnt thy villainy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now thou think’st to bind me hand and foot,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Monster, and take me from this shore whereon</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou erst did’st cast me, friendless, homeless, lorn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="dl2">
|
||
<span>A living corpse.</span>
|
||
<span>I curse thee; when have I</span>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not cursed thee these long years? But since the Gods</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Grant nothing sweet to me, thou livest on</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Exultant; and to me, with endless woes</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Encompassed, life itself is misery;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mocked as I am by thee and the two sons</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Atreus whose abettor now thou art.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou of constraint and by a stratagem</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wert forced to join their flag and sail with them;<a href="#note-7" id="noteref-7" epub:type="noteref">7</a></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I with my seven ships volunteered, and yet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>(O miserable me!) I was cast forth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In scorn—by them thou say’st, they say by thee.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now why seize, why hale me to your ships,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Me who am naught, dead long ago to you?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How can I serve you? Heaven-abhorred wretch!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Am I not lame and noisome now as then?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How will ye render, if I sail with you,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Burnt sacrifices and drink-offerings?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That was the pretext when ye cast me forth.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My curse upon you for your wrongs to me,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And, if the gods are just, ye shall be cursed.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And they are just, I know it; never else</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would ye have sailed for such a wretch as I,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But that they pricked your heart to think of me.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My native land, ye ever-watchful gods,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Your vengeance, vengeance sure though it tarry long,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fall on them all, if aught you pity me;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I am piteous. Yet could I behold</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Their ruin, I should half forget my plague.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>His mood is bitter, bitter his reply</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To thee, Odysseus; suffering tames him not.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Much could I answer, did the time permit;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>One word must now suffice. I am a man</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who can adapt his humour to the hour.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When justice and plain-dealing are required,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye will not find a man more scrupulous.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My one concern is ever to prevail—</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Save in thy case; to thee right willingly</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I will give way. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">To <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Sailors</b>.</i> Unhand him, let him go!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He may stay here. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">To <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</b>.</i> We have no need of thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Having thy bow, for Teucer will be there</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A master archer, and myself who boast</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That I can draw a bow with hand as firm</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And point it with as true an eye as thine.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>What use for thee then? Lemnos shall be thine.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sole Monarch, hail! Go, pace thy bounds at peace;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We leave thee. This thy prize methinks will earn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For me the honour that were rightly thine.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Unhappy wretch, what can I do? Shalt thou</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Strut like a popinjay in arms of mine?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Bandy no more words; I am going now.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Son of Achilles, wilt thou leave me thus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou too in silence, deaf to my appeal?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">To <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</b>.</i>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<div epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Away! and look not on him lest thou mar</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our stroke of fortune by thy quixotry.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">To <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</b>.</i>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<div epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ye also, friends, will ye abandon me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And show no pity for my sad estate?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>This stripling is our captain, and whate’er</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>He says, we say the same; his word is law.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know I shall be twitted by my chief</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As weak and tender-hearted; but what odds?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>If our friend wills it, tarry here until</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Our crew have made all tight and yare, and we</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Have offered prayers, as fitting. He the while</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perchance may come to a better mind and melt.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So we will hasten forward, he and I,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And ye, make haste to follow when we call. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exeunt <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</b> and <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O cavern’d rock, my cell</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Now hot, now icy chill,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How long with thee it was my lot to dwell:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">To thee till death I shall be constant still.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Tell me, sad lodging, haunted by my pain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How shall I day by day my life sustain?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye timorous doves whose flight</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Whirrs in the air o’erhead,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now where ye will unharmed alight;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">No shafts of mine henceforward need ye dread.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis thou hast willed it thus, infatuate,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou art the author of thy sad estate;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor to some higher force canst thou assign</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy woes, but, when free choice was thine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The good thou did’st reject,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The worse elect.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 1</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah wretched, wretched then am I,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Consumed with utter misery,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Doomed for all time to linger on.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Without one friend, one comrade, one,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">To aid me till I die.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">No more my arrows fleet</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Shall win my daily meat;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Poor unsuspecting fool,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A base intriguer’s tool,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By his forged legend caught!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wretch who my ruin wrought,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would I might see him pine</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Long years like me in agony like mine!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>By destiny, by destiny ’twas sent.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To treachery my hand was never lent;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Point not at me thy baleful curse, for fain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy friend, as heretofore, I would remain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Strophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ah me! he’s sitting now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Upon the grey sea sands,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And laughs at me, I trow;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">My bow is in his hands,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The bow that was my life, the bow</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That never lord save me did know.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>My bow, my matchless bow of yew,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">If thou canst feel, how must thou grieve,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus wrested from thy master true,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Constrained his loving hands to leave,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy master who, through Hellas famed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The friend of Heracles was named.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Now art thou handled by a knave,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Past master in each cunning art,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Must do his bidding, as a slave,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">In all his misdeeds take thy part.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And aid the unrelenting foe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The source and spring of all my woe.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A man should aye his rightful cause maintain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But from malign and venomous taunts refrain;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And he but serves the common interest,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Speaks for the host, obeying their behest.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<p>Antistrophe 2</p>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Ye feathered tribes, my prey,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Ye bright-eyed beasts who roam</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">The hills, start not away</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Scared from the hunter’s home.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Stray where ye will, secure, unharmed;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Why shun a helpless man unarmed?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Gone is the mighty bow;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Flock hither without dread,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Why should ye fear a foe</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">So weak, so ill bestead.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Draw near your gluttonous mouths to fill,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Mangle my carrion flesh at will.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i2">Here shall I waste away,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Soon will ye eye me dead;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Who can survive one day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">By airs of heaven fed?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Of all that Earth affords each son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i2">Herb, root and fruit, possessing none.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>If thou regardest a well-wishing friend,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Draw near and to his kindly rule attend.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Think well; from this intolerable bane,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That thou dost feed, and aggravate thy pain,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With thee it rests deliverance to gain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O why recall my ancient grief once more,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Kindest of all who e’er have touched this shore?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why twice undo a wretch undone before?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What meanest thou?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I mean that thou wast fain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To take me to the Troy I hate again.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis for thy good.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O leave me then, begone!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thanks for that word. We will be off anon,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Back to the ship, and each man to his oar.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O leave me not, for God’s sake, I implore.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Calm thyself.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Stay, O stay!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Why should we wait?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O woe is me! Out on my fate, my fate!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Accursed foot, what shall I make of thee?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I am undone! O friends, come back to me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What would’st thou? First thou bid’st us go, and then</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In the same breath thou biddest us remain.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O be not wrath if one distraught with pain</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Blurts out discordant words beside the mark.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Come then, unhappy man, with us embark.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Never, no never, though the King of Heaven</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Should threat to blast me with his fiery leven.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No, perish rather Ilium, perish all</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Achaean host that batter at its wall;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hard hearts who cast me forth as halt and maim.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From you, my friends, one parting boon I claim.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What would’st thou ask?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>An axe, a spear, a brand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No matter what—the weapon first to hand.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Wherefore! What deed of violence wouldst thou do?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hack, mangle, limb by limb my body hew;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My thoughts are bloody.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Wherefore?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I would go</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To seek my father.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In what land?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Below;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For I shall find him nowhere on this earth.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My native land, fair land that gave me birth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Might I but see thee! Wherefore did I roam</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And leave the sacred stream that guards my home?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To help the Greeks those stormy seas I crossed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My mortal foes, by them undone, lost, lost!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I should have left thee long ago and now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Be near my ship, but that I saw Odysseus</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Advancing towards us and Achilles’ son.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Enter <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</b> followed by <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Wilt thou not tell me why thou hurriest back</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In such hot haste and on what errand bound?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I come to expiate all former wrongs.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A strange reply. What wrong did’st thou commit?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>When in obedience to the host and thee—</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Prithee, what did’st thou that beseemed thee not?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I snared a man by base deceit and guile.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What man? Thou hast not something rash in hand?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Naught rash, but to the son of Poeas I—</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What wilt thou do? My soul forbodes some ill.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>From whom I took the bow, to him again—</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Great Zeus! What meanest thou? Not give it back?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yes, for I got it basely, shamefully.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>In Heaven’s name, say’st thou this to mock at me?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>If it be mockery to speak the truth.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What now? What meanest thou, Achilles’ son?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Must I repeat the same words twice and thrice?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Far better had I never heard them once.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Rest well assured I have nothing more to add.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>There is, I tell thee, one to stay thy hand.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Who prithee? who to stay me or prevent?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The whole Achaean host, and I for one.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thy words lack wisdom though thou lack’st not wits.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Unwisdom marks thy words and actions both.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>If just, ’tis better than unjust and wise.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Can it be justice to give back the prize</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Won by my policy?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Shameful was my fault,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And I will try to make amends for it.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hast thou no terror of the Achaean host?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A bugbear this with justice on my side.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>[Justice must yield if I resort to force.]</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not even thou canst force me ’gainst my will.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then not with Trojans must we war, but thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So be it, if it must be.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>See’st my hand</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Upon my sword-hilt?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Me too shalt thou see</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ready to follow suit and keen to draw.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, I will leave thee, but I shall report</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To the whole army. They shall punish thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A wise discretion. Keep this prudent mind,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>So mayest thou henceforth with a whole skin live. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exit <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</b>.</i></span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ho! Philoctetes, son of Poeas, leave</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The shelter of thy rocky home; come forth!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What means this hubbub at my cave again?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why summon me, what would ye with me, Sirs?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Appears at mouth of cave and sees <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</b>.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Ha! I mislike the look of it. Are ye come</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As heralds of new woes to crown the old?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Take heart and listen to the news I bring.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I am afraid. ’Thou camest once before;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I trusted thy fair words and ill I sped.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>May not a man repent him?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Such thou wast,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>No less fair-spoken, when thou wert about</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To steal my bow, black treachery in thy heart.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But now another man, who fain would learn</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whether thou still persistest to stay here,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Or wilt embark with us.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Stop, say no more!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All that thou sayest will be wasted breath.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Art resolute?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>More resolute than words can tell.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, I would gladly have persuaded thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By argument, but if thou wilt not heed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Why, I have done.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thou needs must speak in vain.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How canst thou win me o’er to friendliness,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou who didst rob me of my life by fraud,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And then dost come to counsel me? Base son</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of noblest sire! Perdition on you all;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The Atridae first, Odysseus then, and thee!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Forbear thy curses. Take from me thy bow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What say’st thou? Am I tricked a second time?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>No, by the name of Zeus most high, I swear it.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O comfortable words, if they be true.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>The deed shall follow to attest this truth</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Reach hither thy right hand and take thy bow.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">As he is handing the bow to <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</b>, <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</b> appears.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hold! I protest ’fore Heaven, and in the name</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of the Atridae and the host forbid it.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Who spake, my son, was that Odysseus’ voice</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I heard?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>None other; and he’s hard at hand,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ready to take thee back to Troy by force,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Whether it please Achilles’ son or no.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But at thy peril, if this shaft fly straight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hold, hold! in heaven’s name let not fly thy shaft!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Let go my hand in heaven’s name, dearest son!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I will not.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Why, O why didst thou prevent me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>From slaying with my bow the man I hate?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>That were dishonourable for thee and me. <i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Exit <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Odysseus</b>.</i></span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well of one thing thou may’st be sure, the chiefs,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Those lying heralds of the Achaean host,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Are brave in words and cowards in the fight.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>So be it. The bow is thine again, and now</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou hast no grief or quarrel against me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>None, my brave boy, for thou hast proved this day</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy race and lineage, not of Sisyphus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But of Achilles, noblest once of men</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In life, and now the noblest of the dead.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Sweet to my ears the praises of my sire,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And of myself; but now I crave of thee</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>A boon. What fates the gods allot to men</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>They needs must bear, but whoso hug their griefs,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As thou dost—who can pity or condone</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Such self-tormentors? Thou, inexorable,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Wilt tolerate no counsel, deemest him</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Who would admonish thee in love a foe;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Yet will I speak the truth, so help me Zeus!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Write on the table of thy memory</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>These words: thy sore plague is a heaven-sent doom;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span id="philoctetes-span-1374">With foot profane, in Chrysè’s roofless shrine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou didst insult her tutelary snake.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For this sin wast thou stricken, and no relief</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Canst win from thy affliction, whilst the sun</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall run from East to West his daily course,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Before of thy free will thou com’st to Troy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>There shalt thou find our famed Asclepidae,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And healed by them, with thy bow’s aid and mine,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shalt take and sack the towers of Ilium.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou askest how I know all this. Attend:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>We have a Trojan prisoner, Helenus,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Chiefest of seers, who plainly prophesied</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All I have told thee, and revealed besides</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>That, ere this summer passes, Troy must fall;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His life the forfeit if his word proved false.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Now that thou know’st this, yield with a good grace.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How fair a vision—to be singled out</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As bravest of the host, and, first made whole</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>By healing hands, as conqueror of Troy,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Woe-wearied city, win undying fame!</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O hateful life that keep’st me lingering on</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In this vile world and wilt not let me join</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The world of shades! Ah me! What can I do?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How turn a deaf ear to the kindly words</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of one who counsels well and seeks my good?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Shall I then yield? How, having yielded, face</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The public gaze? Will not all turn from me?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Ye eyes, so long the witness of my wrongs,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How will ye brook to see me once again</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Consorting with my torturers, the sons</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Of Atreus and Odysseus, the arch-fiend?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis not resentment for the past that stings,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But a prevision of the ills to come;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>For when a mind is warped it takes the ply,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And evil-doers will be evil still.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thee too, my son, I marvel much at thee;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Never should’st thou have gone thyself to Troy,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nor sought to bring me thither. How could’st thou,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When they had robbed thee of thy father’s meed</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And flouted thee?<a href="#note-8" id="noteref-8" epub:type="noteref">8</a> How can’st thou after that</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Fight at their side thyself, or bid me fight?</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Not so, my son, but do as thou hast sworn,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Convey me home; thyself in Scyros bide;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Leave those ill-doers to their evil doom.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thus shalt thou win a double thanks from me</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And from my sire; nor will men say of thee:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Abetting base men he himself is base.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Thy words are reasonable; natheless I</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Would have thee trust my promise and the god’s,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And confidently sail with me, thy friend.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What! to the plains of Troy, to him I loathe,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The son of Atreus, with this cursèd foot?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nay, but to kind physicians who will treat</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thy ulcered limb and heal thee of thy hurt.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O wondrous weird! What means this mystery?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>One fraught with happy issue for us both.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Hast thou no fear of heaven, thus to speak?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Why should a man feel fear who helps his friends?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Help for the sons of Atreus, or for me?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>For thee, as these my words attest, thy friend.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>A friend, when thou would’st hand me to my foes?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>O let not suffering make thee truculent.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I know thou would’st undo me pleading thus.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not I, but thou thyself, who wilt not learn.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Do I not know the Atridae cast me forth?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>’Tis true, but now they would deliver thee.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Not with my will, if first I must to Troy.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What must I do, if all persuasion fails</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To make thee budge an inch? ’Twere easier</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To cease from words and leave thee here to live,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>As thou hast lived, a hopeless castaway.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Well, let me dree my weird; but thou, my son,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Perform the promise made with clasp of hands,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Take me straight home, and talk no more of Troy.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>My cup of lamentations I have drained.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>As thou wilt then; let us forward.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Nobly spoken, let us go.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Forward! plant thy footsteps firmly.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>To my utmost will I so.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But the wrath of the Achaeans will pursue me.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Never care.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What if they lay waste my borders?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Never fear, I shall be there.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>What assistance canst thou render?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Heracles, his mighty bow—</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Say’st thou?</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Will prevent their landing.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Kiss the earth and let us go.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td/>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<i epub:type="z3998:stage-direction">Apparition of <b epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</b> behind the stage.</i>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td>
|
||
<div epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Go not yet till thou hast heard,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Son of Poeas, first my word:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Heracles to thee appears,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>His the voice that thrills thine ears.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>’Tis for thy sake I have come,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Leaving my Olympian home.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mandate from high Zeus I bring</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To forbid thy journeying:</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Hear the will of heaven’s King.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>But first I’ll mind thee of my own career,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>How, having laboured hugely and endured,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I won immortal glory, as thou seest.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Know that thy fortune like to mine shall be,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Through suffering to glorify thy life.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Go with yon man to Ilium. There first</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thou shalt be healèd of thy grievous sore;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Then, chosen as the champion of the host,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>With these my arrows thou shalt pierce to the heart</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Paris, the guilty cause of all that woe.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Troy shalt thou sack, and, winning from the host</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The meed of bravest, carry home rich spoils</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To glad old Poeas and the Oetaean halls.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But of the spoils, whate’er the host assigns thee,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bring to my pyre, as tribute to my bow,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="dl2">
|
||
<span>A tithe.</span>
|
||
<span>I have a message too for thee,</span>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Son of Achilles. Thou without his aid</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Can’st not take Troy, nor he apart from thine;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>But like two lions together on the prowl,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="dl2">
|
||
<span>Either the other guards.</span>
|
||
<span>To cure thy wounds</span>
|
||
</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Asclepius, the healer, will I send</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>To Troas; for a second time Troy towers</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Must fall before my shafts. Only take heed,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>In laying waste the land to reverence</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Its gods; all else by Zeus my sire is less</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Regarded. Piety can never die;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>It lives on earth and blossoms in the grave.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Voice for which I long have yearned,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Form, long visioned, now discerned!</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Thee I cannot disobey.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Neoptolemus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>I too obey.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Heracles</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Then to work! No time to spare;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Seize the hour; the wind sets fair.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Philoctetes</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Yet ere I part I fain would bid farewell.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Home of my vigils, rocky cell,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Nymphs of the streams and grass-fringed shore,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Caves where the deep-voiced breakers roar,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>When through the cavern’s open mouth,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Borne on the wings of the wild South,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>E’en to my dwelling’s inmost lair,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>The rain and spray oft drenched my hair;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And oft responsive to my groan</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Mount Hermaeum made his moan;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>O Lycian fount, O limpid well,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>I thought with you all time to dwell;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And now I take my last farewell.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Sea-girt Lemnos, hear my prayer,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Bid thy guest a voyage fair</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Speed him to the land where he,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>Borne by mighty Destiny,</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>And the god at whose decree</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>All was ordered, fain would be.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
<tr>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:persona">Chorus</td>
|
||
<td epub:type="z3998:song">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span class="i4">Let us to the Sea Nymphs pray</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">To waft us on our Troy-ward way.</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Mariners, attend my call;</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span class="i4">Let us voyage, one and all.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</td>
|
||
</tr>
|
||
</tbody>
|
||
</table>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="endnotes" epub:type="endnotes backmatter">
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Endnotes</h2>
|
||
<ol>
|
||
<li id="note-1" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>The nymph by whose guardian serpent Philoctetes was bitten. See <a href="#philoctetes-span-1374"><abbr>l.</abbr> 1326</a>. <a href="#noteref-1" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-2" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>Phoenix. <a href="#noteref-2" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-3" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>According to the tradition that Ovid followed (<i epub:type="se:name.publication.poem"><abbr>Met.</abbr></i> 13 284) Odysseus rescued the body and arms of Achilles from the fray, <a href="#noteref-3" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-4" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>Sisyphus, the reputed father of Odysseus, ordered his wife to leave his body unburied and so obtained leave from Pluto to return to earth in order to punish her impiety. <a href="#noteref-4" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-5" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>For kindling the funeral-pyre of Heracles on Mount Oeta. <a href="#noteref-5" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-6" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>Lemnos was the island on which Hephaestus fell when hurled from heaven (<i epub:type="se:name.publication.poem"><abbr>Il.</abbr></i> <span epub:type="z3998:roman">I</span> 593) and Moschylus on the east coast seems to have been an active volcano in historic times. <a href="#noteref-6" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-7" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>The omitted lines are:</p>
|
||
<blockquote epub:type="z3998:verse">
|
||
<p>
|
||
<span>Who judged Odysseus of thy father’s arms</span>
|
||
<br/>
|
||
<span>More worthy than the hapless Ajax.</span>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</blockquote>
|
||
<p>
|
||
<a href="#noteref-7" epub:type="backlink">↩</a>
|
||
</p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
<li id="note-8" epub:type="endnote">
|
||
<p>Odysseus to escape service feigned madness but was detected by Palamedes, who laid the infant Telemachus in front of the plough which he was driving with a yoked ox and ass. <a href="#noteref-8" epub:type="backlink">↩</a></p>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ol>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<section id="colophon" epub:type="colophon backmatter">
|
||
<header>
|
||
<h2 epub:type="title">Colophon</h2>
|
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<p><i epub:type="se:name.publication.play">Philoctetes</i><br/>
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was written in 409 <abbr epub:type="se:era z3998:initialism">BCE</abbr> by<br/>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophocles">Sophocles</a>.<br/>
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<b epub:type="z3998:personal-name">Francis Storr</b>.</p>
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