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MEDEA.

Nurse.

OULD the ship Argo ne'er had fetched her flight,
Twixt the dark Symplegades to Colchian land,
And the cleft pine in Pelion's woods ne'er fallen,
Nor caused the chieftains' hands to row, who went
To seek the golden fleece for Pelias, 5 (5)
For neither then Medea, mistress mine,
Had sailed to the Iolchian country's towers,
By love for Jason stricken at the heart;
Nor, having wrought upon the damsels, race
Of Pelias, to slay their sire, had dwelt 10 (9)
With husband and with sons in Corinth here,
So pleasuring in sooth the citizens