Medea. Set us front to front and let us strive;

And of this royal strife let Jason be the prize.

Jason: O'erwearied by my woes I yield. But be thou ware,

Medea, lest too often thou shouldst tempt thy fate.520

Medea: Yet fortune's mistress have I ever been.

Jason: But see,

With hostile front Acastus comes, on vengeance bent,

While Creon threatens instant death.

Medea: Then flee them both.

I ask thee not to draw thy sword against the king