Who lies!
But now, I swear--so hear me both,
The Earth beneath and Zeus who Guards the Oath--
I never touched this woman that was thine!
No words could win me to it, nor incline
My heart to dream it. May God strike me down,
Nameless and fameless, without home or town,
An outcast and a wanderer of the world;
May my dead bones rest never, but be hurled
From sea to land, from land to angry sea,
If evil is my heart and false to thee!
[_He waits a moment; but sees that his Father is unmoved.
The truth again comes to his lips_.]
If 'twas some fear that made her cast away
Her life ... I know not. More I must not say.
Right hath she done when in her was no right;
And Right I follow to mine own despite!

LEADER
It is enough! God's name is witness large,
And thy great oath, to assoil thee of this charge,

THESEUS
Is not the man a juggler and a mage,
Cool wits and one right oath--what more?--to assuage
Sin and the wrath of injured fatherhood!

HIPPOLYTUS
Am I so cool? Nay, Father, 'tis thy mood
That makes me marvel! By my faith, wert thou