Penny Dreadfuls, 1912 · page 80 of 118
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# Description This is a page of running dramatic prose—specifically, a scene from a classical play. Page 64 contains dialogue between a Messenger and Medea from Euripides' *Medea*. The Messenger describes how Medea's children arrived at the bridal chambers with their father Jason, and how the woman waiting there (Medea's rival) initially welcomed them with joy before seeing the children and turning away in distress. The text is formatted as a Victorian-era edition of classical drama, presented in verse form with character names in capitals.
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64 EURIPIDES MESSENGER. What say’st thou? Woman, is thy mind within Clear, and notraving? ‘Thou art found in sin Most bloody wrought against the king’s high head, And laughest at the tale, and hast no dread? MEDEA. I have words also that could answer well Thy word. But take thine ease, good friend, and tell, How died they? Hath it been a very foul Death, prithee? That were comfort to my soul. MESSENGER. When thy two children, hand in hand entwined, Came with their father, and passed on to find The new-made bridal rooms, Oh, we were glad, We thralls, who ever loved thee well, and had Grief in thy grief. And straight there passed a word From ear to ear, that thou and thy false lord Had poured peace offering upon wrath foregone. A right glad welcome gave we them, and one Kissed the small hand, and one the shining hair: Myself, for very joy, I followed where The women’s rooms are. ‘There our mistress. . . she Whom now we name so . . . thinking not to see Thy little pair, with glad and eager brow Sate waiting Jason. Then she saw, and slow Shrouded her eyes, and backward turned again, Sick that thy children should come near her. Then EOomicboo cS (E(0)