NURSE
Hush O my Prince, lest others mark, and guess ...

HIPPOLYTUS
I have heard horrors! Shall I hold my peace?

NURSE
Yea by this fair right arm, Son, by thy pledge ...

HIPPOLYTUS
Down with that hand! Touch not my garment's edge!

NURSE
Oh, by thy knees, be silent or I die!

HIPPOLYTUS
Why, when thy speech was all so guiltless? Why?

NURSE
It is not meet, fair Son, for every ear!

HIPPOLYTUS
Good words can bravely forth, and have no fear.

NURSE
Thine oath, thine oath! I took thine oath before!

HIPPOLYTUS
'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.