Note 119 — HIPÓLITO
Eduardo de Mier translation
Esta larga y sangrienta sátira contra las mujeres, tan del gusto de Eurípides, es, sin embargo, en nuestro juicio, muy inferior a la celebérrima de Juvenal, imitada después por tantos otros, y entre ellos por nuestro Quevedo. Afortunadamente no escasean en ella las puerilidades, y en general es injusta y poco sólida. Shakespeare en su Cymb., acto II, última escena, se desata también contra el bello sexo en estos términos:
Could I find out The woman’s part in me! For there’s no motion That tends to vice in man, but I affirm It is the woman’s part: be it lying, note it, The woman’s; flattering, hers; deceiving, hers; Lust and rank thoughts, hers, hers; revenges, hers; Ambitions, covetings, change of prides, disdain, Nice longings, slanders, mutability, All faults that may be nam’d; nay, that hell knows Why, hers, in part, or all: but, rather, all; For even to vice They are not constant, but are changing still One vice, but of a minute old, for one Not half so old as that. I’ll irrite against them, Detest them, curse them. Yet ’t is greater skill In true hate, to pray they have their will: The very devils cannot plague them better.