Euripides' HELEN Complete

Translated by E. Coleridge.

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Helen: Ah me! ah me! that is a bitter subject to begin on.

Menelaus: Tell me, I adjure thee, how wert thou from my home conveyed?

Helen: Alas! alas! 'tis a bitter tale thou askest to hear.

Menelaus: Speak, for I must hear it; all that comes is Heaven's gift.

Helen: I loathe the story I am now to tell.

Menelaus: Tell it for all that. 'Tis sweet to hear of trouble past.

Helen: I ne'er set forth to be the young barbarian's bride, with oars
and wings of lawless love to speed me on my way.

Menelaus: What deity or fate tore thee from thy country, then?

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