Penny Dreadfuls, 1912 · page 70 of 118
The Medea — page 70: what you’re looking at
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# Description This is a page of running dramatic prose—specifically a scene from Euripides' *Medea* in English translation. The page shows dialogue between Jason and Medea, numbered page 54. Medea proposes sending gifts (fine robes and a gold necklace) to Jason's new bride through the boys' hands, with a stage direction indicating a handmaid exits to fetch the garments. The text appears to be from a Victorian-era printed edition of classical drama, though the OCR note at bottom suggests this image may derive from digital scanning.
📄 Transcribed text from this page (OCR, searchable)
Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.
54 EURIPIDES To exile. But our children. . . . Could this land Be still their home awhile: could thine own hand But guide their boyhood. ... Seek the king, and pray . His pity, that he bid thy children stay! JASON. He ishard to move. Yet surely ’twere well done. MEDEA. Bid her—for thy sake, for a daughter’s boon... . Jason. Well thought! Her I can fashion to my mind. MEDEA. Surely. She is a woman like her kind... . Yet I will aid thee in thy labour; I Will send her gifts, the fairest gifts that lie In the hands of men, things of the days of old, Fine robings and a carcanet of gold, By the boys’ hands.—Go, quick, some handmaiden, And fetch the raiment. [A handmaid goes into the house Ah, her cup shall then Be filled indeed! What more should woman crave, Being wed with thee, the bravest of the brave, f EOMIGDOO