MEDEA. The earth doth hold it.
KING. Ha! I understand!
So it was there, in sooth?
[He turns to his attendants.]
Go, fetch me here
That which I bade you. What I mean, ye know!
[The attendants go out.]
Ha! Didst thou think to cheat us with thy words
Of double meaning? Earth doth hold it! Now
I understand thee! Nay, look not away!
Look here at me, and harken!—Yonder there
Upon the seashore, where last night ye lay,
I gave command to raise a sacred fane
To Pelias' shades; and, as my henchmen toiled,
They found—thou palest!—freshly buried there
An ebon casket, marked with curious signs.
[The attendants bring in the chest.]
Look! Is it thine?
MEDEA (rushing eagerly to the chest).
Yea, mine!
KING. And is the Fleece
Therein?