Keep watch and ward upon the baleful doors,
Theseus can always walk forbidden ways.
Phaedra: Perchance he'll give indulgence to my love.225
Nurse: But he was harsh e'en to a modest wife;
His heavy hand Antiope has known.
But grant that thou canst bend thy angry lord:
Canst bend as well the stubborn soul of him,
Hippolytus, who hates the very name230
Of womankind? Inexorable his resolve
To spend his life unwedded. He so shuns