Medea knows not how in check

To hold her wrath nor yet her love;

If love and wrath make common cause,

What dire results will come?

When will this scourge of Corinth leave870

Our Grecian shores for Colchis' strand,

And free our kingdom from its fear?

Now, Phoebus, hasten on thy course

With no retarding rein.875

Let friendly darkness quickly veil the light,