HERACLES
Amphitryon
Then I should be accomplice in her death.
Lycus
Very well then. Since your scruples forbid,
I, who lack such petty fears, shall go and fetch
the mother and her sons. Attend me, guards,
and help me put good riddance to this chore. 725
(Exit Lycus, attended by guards, into the palace.)
Amphitryon
Go, march in to your fate. Someone, I think,
will see you in. Expect for what you did
evil in return. How justly, old friends,
into that net whose meshes hide the sword,
he goes, the man who would have slaughtered us, 730
coward that he is! I'll go in and watch
his body fall. This is sweet: to see your foe
perish and pay to justice all he owes.
(Exit Amphitryon into the palace.)
STROPHE i
Chorus
Disaster is reversed!
The tyrant's life turns back to Hades! 735
Justice flows back! O fate of the gods,
returning!
Your time has come. You go now where the price - 740
for outrage on your betters must be paid.
Joy once more! Overboard with grief!
The king has come again!
He has come, of whom I had no hope, 745
my country's king, come back again!
Peer within the house, old friends. Let me see
if what I hope to see is taking place.
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