Penny Dreadfuls, 1912 · page 29 of 118
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# Page Description This is a text page from a dramatic work titled "Medea" (page 13), presenting theatrical dialogue in verse. The page contains exchanges between characters labeled D. (likely a male character), the Nurse, and a Chorus member identified as "A Woman." The dialogue concerns Medea's dangerous emotional state—her grief described as "like an angry sea"—and warnings against approaching her in her "evil mood." The Chorus member then reflects philosophically on ancient bards and music's inability to ease human suffering and darkness. This appears to be a Victorian-era dramatic adaptation rather than original penny dreadful fiction.
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MEDEA 13 D. Go, lest her hand be hard On the innocent: Ah, let be! For her grief moves hitherward, Like an angry sea. NURSE. That will I: though what words of mine Or love shall move her? Let them lie With the old lost labours! .. . Yet her eye— Know ye the eyes of the wild kine, | The lion flash that guards their brood ? So looks she now if any thrall Speak comfort, or draw near at all My mistress in her evil mood. [Zhe NursE goes into the house. CHORUS. : A Woman. Alas, the bold blithe bards of old That all for joy their music made, For feasts and dancing manifold, That Life might listen and be glad. But all the darkness and the wrong, Quick deaths and dim heart-aching things, Would no man ease them with a song Or music of a thousand strings? =} EComicbooks. co