Penny Dreadfuls, 1912 · page 60 of 118
The Medea — page 60: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
# Page Description This is a page of running dramatic dialogue from what appears to be a Victorian edition of Euripides' *Medea*. The text presents an exchange between the characters Medea and Aegeus in which Medea demands that Aegeus swear by the Earth, Sun, and gods never to cast her out or allow another to take her while he lives. Aegeus accepts the oath, invoking divine punishment if he breaks it. Medea then dismisses him, declaring she will follow after nightfall once she has completed an unspecified deed she is determined to accomplish. The page ends with a stage direction indicating Aegeus and his attendants exit.
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Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
AA EURIPIDES MEDEA. Swear by the Earth thou treadest, by the Sun, Sire of my sires, and all the gods as one. . AEGEUS. To do what thing or not do? Make all plain. MEDEA. Never thyself to cast me out again. Nor let another, whatsoe’er his plea, Take me. while thou yet livest and art free. AEGEUS. Never: so hear me, Earth, and the great star Of daylight, and all other gods that are! MEDEA. ’Tis well: andif thou falter from thy vow...?P AEGEUS. God’s judgment on the godless break my brow! MEDEA. Go! Go thy ways rejoicing. — All is bright ‘y And clear before me. Go: and ere the night Myself will follow, when the deed is done I purpose, and the end I thirst for won. [AEGEUS and his train depart. EComicbooks