ALCESTIS
Admetus
Easier to comfort than to suffer and be strong.
Heracles
But if you wish to mourn for always, what will you gain?
Admetus
Nothing. I know it. But some impulse of my love 1080
makes me.
Heracles
Why, surely. Love for the dead is cause for tears.
Admetus
(Her death destroyed me, even more than I can say.
Heracles
You have lost a fine wife. Who will say you have not?
Admetus
So fine
that I, whom you see, never shall be happy again.
Heracles
Time will soften it. The evil still is young and strong. 1085
Admetus
You can say time will soften it, if time means death.
Heracles
A wife, love, your new marriage will put an end to this.
Admetus
Silence! I never thought you would say a thing like that.
Heracles
What? You will not remarry but keep an empty bed?
Admetus
No woman ever shall sleep in my arms again. 1090
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