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. The guest chambers lie apart, whereto we will conduct thee.
Heracles
  1. Let me go; ten thousandfold shall be my thanks to thee.
Admetus
  1. Thou must not go to any other hearth. (To a Servant.) Go before, open the guest-rooms that face not these chambers, and bid my stewards see there is plenty of food; then shut the doors that lead into the courtyard; for ’tis not seemly that guests when at their meat
  2. should hear the voice of weeping or be made sad. [Exit HERACLES.
Chorus
  1. What doest thou? With such calamity before thee, hast thou the heart, Admetus, to welcome visitors? What means this folly?