What is befitting to thy high estate

Thou knowest well. Then fitting reverence show

To thy returning husband's sovereignty.

Phaedra: The sovereignty of love is over me,

The highest rule of all. My lord's return,

I fear it not; for never more has he,

Who once within the silent depths of night220

Has plunged, beheld again the light of day.

Nurse: Trust not the power of Dis; for though his realm

He closely bar, and though the Stygian dog