Penny Dreadfuls, 1912 · page 64 of 118
The Medea — page 64: what you’re looking at
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# Page 48 from a Victorian Edition of Euripides This is a page of dramatic text from a classical work—specifically a play by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, presented in Victorian-era English translation. The visible content shows the end of a scene where the Nurse departs, followed by a lengthy Chorus passage praising the sons of Erechtheus and celebrating a divine child born through the Muses' intervention. The text employs elaborate poetic language describing natural beauty, godly patronage, and the mythological landscape of ancient Athens, with particular focus on the river Cephisus and a feminine divine figure. This is running dramatic verse, not a penny dreadful as initially suggested—it appears to be a scholarly or literary edition of classical drama.
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48 EURIPIDES Like thee, to work me these high services. But speak no word of what my purpose is, As thou art faithful, thou, and bold to try All succours, and a woman even as |! | Zze NURSE departs. CHORUS. The sons of Erechtheus, the olden, Whom high gods planted of yore In an old land of heaven upholden, A proud land untrodden of war: They are hungered, and, lo, their desire With wisdom is fed as with meat: In their skies is a shining of fire, A joy in the fall of their feet: And thither, with manifold dowers, From the North, from the hills, from the morn, The Muses did gather their powers, That a child of the Nine should be born; And Harmony, sown as the flowers, Grew gold in the acres of corn. And Cephisus, the fair-flowing river— ® The Cyprian dipping her hand Hath drawn of. his dew, and the shiver Of her touch is as joy in the land. For her breathing in fragrance is written, And in music her path as she goes, And the cloud of her hair, it is litten With stars of the wind-woven rose. So fareth she ever and ever, And forth of her bosom is blown, comicbooks:com