EURIPIDES
Heracles
Do you believe you help the dead by doing this?
Admetus
Wherever she may be, she deserves my honors still.
Heracles
Praiseworthy, yes, praiseworthy. And yet foolish, too.
Admetus
Call me so, then, but never call me a bridegroom.
Heracles
I admire you for your faith and love you bear your wife. 1095
Admetus
Let me die if I betray her, though she is gone.
Heracles
Well then,
receive this woman into your most generous house.
Admetus
Please, in the name of Zeus your father, nol
Heracles
And yet
you will be making a mistake if you do not;
Admetus
and eaten at the heart with anguish if I do. 1100
Heracles
Obey. The grace of this may come where you need grace.
Admetus
Ah.
I wish you had never won her in those games of yours.
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