Well, and if I had driven him from my house and city when he came to be my guest, wouldst thou have praised me more? No indeed! for my calamity would have been no whit less, while I should have been more churlish. And this would have been another woe to add to mine, that my house should be called no friend to guests. Yea, and I find him myself the best of hosts whene’er to Argos’ thirsty land I come.ChorusWhy then didst thou conceal thy present misfortune, if, as thy own lips declare, it was a friend that came?AdmetusHe would never have entered my house, had he known aught of my distress.