EURIPIDES
Admetus
I promise. I will keep my promise to the end.
Alcestis
On this condition, take the children. They are yours. 375
Admetus
I take them, a dear gift from a dear hand.
Alcestis
And now
you must be our children's mother, too, instead of me.
Admetus
I must be such, since they will no longer have you.
Alcestis
O children, this was my time to live, and I must go.
Admetus
Ah me, what shall I do without you all alone. 380
Alcestis
Time will soften it. The dead count for nothing at all.
Admetus
Oh, take me with you, for God's love, take me there too.
Alcestis
No, I am dying in your place. That is enough.
Admetus
O God, what a wife you are taking away from me.
ALcestis
It is true. My eyes darken and the heaviness comes. 385
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