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andromache-第7部分

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too; poor lady; for thou art come into a quiet haven after the rude

storm。

  ANDROMACHE

    Heaven reward thee and all thy race; old sire; for having saved my

child and me his hapless mother! Only beware lest they fall upon us

twain in some lonely spot upon the road and force me from thee; when

they see thy age; my weakness; and this child's tender years; take

heed to this; that we be not a second time made captive; after

escaping now。

  PELEUS

    Forbear such words; prompted by a woman's cowardice。 Go on thy

way; who will lay a finger on you? Methinks he will do it to his cost;

For by heaven's grace I rule o'er many a knight and spearman bold in

my kingdom of Phthia; yea; and myself can still stand straight; no

bent old man as thou dost think; such a fellow as that a mere look

from me will put to flight in spite of my years。 For e'en an old

man; be he brave; is worth a host of raw youths; for what avails a

fine figure if a man is coward?

                           (PELEUS; ANDROMACHE; and MOLOSSUS go out。)

  CHORUS (singing)



                                                              strophe



    Oh! to have never been born; or sprung from noble sires; the

heir to mansions richly stored; for if aught untoward e'er befall;

there is no lack of champions for sons of noble parents; and there

is honour and glory for them when they are proclaimed scions of

illustrious lines; time detracts not from the legacy these good men

leave; but the light of their goodness still burns on when they are

dead。



                                                          antistrophe



    Better is it not to win a discreditable victory; than to make

justice miscarry by an invidious exercise of power; for such a

victory; though men think it sweet for the moment; grows barren in

time and comes near being a stain on a house。 This is the life I

commend; this the life I set before me as my ideal; to exercise no

authority beyond what is right either in the marriage…chamber or in

the state。



                                                                epode



    O aged son of Aeacus! now am I sure that thou wert with the

Lapithae; wielding thy famous spear; when they fought the Centaurs;

and on Argo's deck didst pass the cheerless strait beyond the sea…beat

Symplegades on her voyage famed; and when in days long gone the son of

Zeus spread slaughter round Troy's famous town; thou too didst share

his triumphant return to Europe。

                                      (The NURSE OF HERMIONE enters。)

  NURSE

    Alas! good friends; what a succession of troubles is to…day

provided us! My mistress Hermione within the house; deserted by her

father and in remorse for her monstrous deed in plotting the death

of Andromache and her child; is bent on dying; for she is afraid her

husband will in requital for this expel her with dishonour from his

house or put her to death; because she tried to slay the innocent。 And

the servants that watch her can scarce restrain her efforts to hang

herself; scarce catch the sword and wrest it from her hand。 So

bitter is her anguish; and she hath recognized the villainy of her

former deeds。 As for me; friends; I am weary of keeping my mistress

from the fatal noose; do ye go in and try to save her life; for if

strangers come; they prove more persuasive than the friends of every

day。

  LEADER OF THE CHORUS

    Ah yes! I hear an outcry in the house amongst the servants;

confirming the news thou hast brought。 Poor sufferer! she seems

about to show lively grief for her grave crimes; for she has escaped

her servants' hands and is rushing from the house; eager to end her

life。



            (HERMIONE enters; in agitation。 She is carrying

                a sword which the NURSE wrests from her。)



  HERMIONE (chanting)

    Woe; woe is me! I will rend my hair and tear cruel furrows in my

cheeks。

  NURSE

    My child; what wilt thou do? Wilt thou disfigure thyself?

  HERMIONE (chanting)

    Ah me! ah me! Begone; thou fine…spun veil! float from my head

away!

  NURSE

    Daughter; cover up thy bosom; fasten thy robe。

  HERMIONE (chanting)

    Why should I cover it? My crimes against my lord are manifest

and clear; they cannot be hidden。

  NURSE

    Art so grieved at having devised thy rival's death?

  HERMIONE (chanting)

    Yea; I deeply mourn my fatal deeds of daring; alas! I am now

accursed in all men's eyes!

  NURSE

    Thy husband will pardon thee this error。

  HERMIONE (chanting)

    Oh! why didst thou hunt me to snatch away my sword? Give; oh! give

it back; dear nurse; that I may thrust it through my heart Why dost

thou prevent me hanging myself?

  NURSE

    What! was I to let thy madness lead thee on to death?

  HERMIONE (chanting)

    Ah me; my destiny! Where can I find some friendly fire? To what

rocky height can I climb above the sea or 'mid some wooded mountain

glen; there to die and trouble but the dead?

  NURSE

    Why vex thyself thus? on all of us sooner or later heaven's

visitation comes。

  HERMIONE (chanting)

    Thou hast left me; O my father; left me like a stranded bark;

all alone; without an oar。 My lord will surely slay me; no home is

mine henceforth beneath my husband's roof。 What god is there to

whose statue I can as a suppliant haste? or shall I throw myself in

slavish wise at slavish knees? Would I could speed away from

Phthia's land on bird's dark pinion; or like that pine…built ship; the

first that ever sailed betwixt the rocks Cyanean!

  NURSE

    My child; I can as little praise thy previous sinful excesses;

committed against the Trojan captive; as thy present exaggerated

terror。 Thy husband will never listen to a barbarian's weak pleading

and reject his marriage with thee for this。 For thou wast no captive

from Troy whom he wedded; but the daughter of a gallant sire; with a

rich dower; from a city too of no mean prosperity。 Nor will thy father

forsake thee; as thou dreadest; and allow thee to be cast out from

this house。 Nay; enter now; nor show thyself before the palace; lest

the sight of thee there bring reproach upon thee; my daughter。



      (The NURSE departs as ORESTES and his attendants enter。)



  LEADER

    Lo! a stranger of foreign appearance from some other land comes

hurrying towards us。

  ORESTES

    Women of this foreign land! is this the home; the palace of

Achilles' son?

  LEADER

    Thou hast it; but who art thou to ask such a question?

  ORESTES

    The son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; by name Orestes; on ply way

to the oracle of Zeus at Dodona。 But now that I am come to Phthia; I

am resolved to inquire about my kinswoman; Hermione of Sparta; is

she alive and well? for though she dwells in a land far from my own; I

love her none the less。

  HERMIONE

    Son of Agamemnon; thy appearing is as a haven from the storm to

sailors; by thy knees I pray; have pity on me in my distr
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