Alcestis

Euripides

Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.

  1. True; still let this maiden go away.
Heracles
  1. Go she shall, if go she must; but first see if this is needful.
Admetus
  1. I needs must, else wilt thou be wroth with me.
Heracles
  1. I have a reason good to press the matter thus.
Admetus
  1. Have thy way then. Yet know well thy deed I disapprove.
Heracles
  1. A day will come that thou wilt praise me; only yield.
Admetus
  1. (to his servants). Take her in, if I needs must give her welcome in my house.
Heracles
  1. To thy servants will I not hand her over.
Admetus
  1. Conduct her then thyself within, if so thou thinkest good.
Heracles
  1. Nay, but into thy hands shall mine consign her.
Admetus
  1. I will not touch her, though she is free to go within my halls.