Phæ. And I tell thee, that he would not believe thee.
Yet—say it not, Hippolytus! for I
Do love thee as—
Hip. I'll hear no more!
Mother! I leave thee, and I pray the gods
To visit not on thee, this awful crime!'"
Racine.
Fearful lest Hippolytus should betray her, when she found he would not return her sinful passion, Phædra accused his son to Theseus of the very crime of which she had herself been guilty, and excited the father's ire against his son in a terrible degree.
The. "'Dost thou dare look upon me boy?