Vulgar words in Hippolytus/The Bacchae (Page 1)

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HIPPOLYTUS OF EURIPIDES DRAMATIS PERSONAE THE GODDESS APHRODITE THESEUS, _King of Athens and Trozên_ PHAEDRA, _daughter of Minos, King of Crete, wife to Theseus_ HIPPOLYTUS, _bastard son of Theseus and the Amazon Hippolyte_ THE NURSE OF PHAEDRA A HENCHMAN OF HIPPOLYTUS THE GODDESS ARTEMIS AN OLD HUNTSMAN A CHORUS OF HUNTSMEN ATTENDANTS ON THE THREE ROYAL PERSONS A CHORUS OF TROZENIAN WOMEN, WITH THEIR LEADER _The scene is laid in Trozên.

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That barbèd Amazonian Queen Hath left a child to bend thy children low, A bastard royal-hearted--sayst not so?-- Hippolytus... PHAEDRA Ah!

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"She hated thee," thou sayest; "the bastard born Is ever sore and bitter as a thorn To the true brood."

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May none I love e'er bear a bastard's name!

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