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EURIPIDES.


Alcestis.

Dark—dark—mine eyes are drooping, heavy-laden. 385


Admetus.

Oh, I am lost if thou wilt leave me, wife!


Alcestis.

No more—I am no more: as nought account me.


Admetus.

Uplift thy face: forsake not thine own children!


Alcestis.

Sore loth do I—yet O farewell, my babes!


Admetus.

Look unto them—O look!


Alcestis.

I am no more. 390


Admetus.

Ah, leav'st thou us?


Alcestis.

Farewell. [Dies.


Admetus.

O wretch undone!


Chorus.

Gone,—gone!—No more is this Admetus' wife!

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