Jason: But gifts which sin has bought 'twere shame to take.
Medea: Why keep'st thou then the gifts which it were shame to take?505
Jason: Nay, curb thy fiery soul! Thy children—for their sake
Be calm.
Medea: My children! Them I do refuse, reject,
Renounce! Shall then Creüsa brothers bear to these
My children?
Jason: But the queen can aid thy wretched sons.
Medea: May that day never dawn, that day of shame and woe,510
When in one house are joined the low born and the high,