ake my life to expiate
My grievous sins, or though they send me forth
To wander still through some far desert-waste,
My very life, prolonged, a heavier weight
Of sorrow than I ever yet have known!

_[She holds up the gleaming Fleece before his eyes.]_

Know'st thou the golden prize which thou didst strive
So eagerly to win, which seemed to thee
The shining crown of all thy famous deeds?
What is the happiness the world can give?--
A shadow! What the fame it can bestow?--
An empty dream! Poor man! Thy dreams were all
Of shadows! And the dreams are ended now,
But not the long, black Night!--Farewell to thee,
My husband, for I go! That was a day
Of heavy sorrows when we first did meet;
Today, 'mid heavier sorrows, we must part!
Farewell!

JASON. Deserted! All alone! My babes!

MEDEA. Endure!

JASON. Lost! Lost!

MEDEA. Be patient!

JASON. Let me die!

MEDEA. I go, and nevermore thine eyes shall see
My face again!

_[As she departs, winding her way among the tumbled rocks, the curtain
falls.]_

* * * * *

THE JEWESS OF TOLEDO

AN HISTORICAL TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS

By FRANZ GRILLPARZER

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

ALFONSO VIII., _the Noble, King of Castile._

ELEANOR OF ENGLAND, _Daughter of Henry II., his Wife._

THE PRINCE, _their Son._

MANRIQUE, _Count of Lara, Governor of Castile._

DON GARCERAN, _his Son._

DONA CLARA, _Lady in Waiting to the Queen.

The Queen's Waiting Maid._

ISAAC, _the Jew._

ESTHER, }
} _his Daughters._
RACHEL, }

REINERO, _the King's Page.

Nobles, Court Ladies, Petitioners, Servants, and Other People.

Place, Toledo and Vicinity.

Time, about 1195 A.D._

THE JEWESS OF TOLEDO (1873)

TRANSLATED BY GEORGE HENRY DANTON AND ANNINA PERIAM DANTON

ACT I

_In the Royal Garden at Toledo._

_Enter_ ISAAC, RACHEL, _and_ ESTHER.

ISAAC. Back, go back, and leave the garden!
Know ye not it is forbidden?
When the King here takes his pleasure
Dares no Jew--ah, God will damn them!
Dares no Jew to tread the earth here!

RACHEL (_singing_).

La-la-la-la.

ISAAC