Why dost thou hesitate?
Both time and place are given by fortune's lot.
Use all thy arts. Why do I quake with fear?
It is no easy task to do the deed
Enjoined on me. Yet she, who serves a queen,
Must banish from her heart all thought of right;
For sense of shame ill serves a royal will.430
[Enter Hippolytus.]
Hippolytus: Why dost thou hither turn thine agéd feet,
O faithful nurse? Why is thy face so sad,