Helen: O my new lord, needs must I honour him with whom I first shared
married joys; for I could even die with my husband, so well I loved
him; yet how could he thank me, were I to share death's doom with
him? Still, let me go and pay his funeral rites unto the dead in person.
The gods grant thee the boon I wish and this stranger too, for the
assistance he is lending here! And thou shalt find in me a wife fit
to share thy house, since thou art rendering kindness to Menelaus
and to me; for surely these events are to some good fortune tending.
But now appoint someone to give us a ship wherein to convey these
gifts, that I may find thy kindness made complete.
Theoclymenus: (to an attendant) Go thou, and furnish them with a
Sidonian galley of fifty oars and rowers also.
Helen: Shall not he command the ship who is ordering the funeral?
Theoclymenus: Most certainly; my sailors are to obey him.
Helen: Repeat the order, that they may clearly understand thee.
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