Euripides' ALCESTIS Complete

Translated by Gilbert Murray. - Cf. An Introduction to Euripides' Alcestis by Murray

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Admetus: Woe's me!
Would God thou hadst never won those victories!

Heracles: Thou sharest both the victory and the prize.

Admetus: Thou art generous.... But now let her go.

Heracles: She shall,
If go she must. Look first, and judge withal.

[He takes the veil off Alcestis.]

Admetus (steadily refusing to look): She must.--And thou, forgive me!

Heracles: Friend, there is
A secret reason why I pray for this.

Admetus (surprised, then reluctantly yielding): I grant thy boon then--though it likes me ill.

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