And yet, methinks, the act was almost meaningless,
Since Jason saw it not; for naught has been performed
If to his grief be added not the woe of sight.
Jason [discovering her]: Lo, there she stands upon the lofty battlements!995
Bring torches! fire the house, that she may fall ensnared
By those devices she herself hath planned.
Medea [derisively]: Not so,
But rather build a lofty pyre for these thy sons;
Their funeral rites prepare. Already for thy bride
And father have I done the service due the dead;