Scenes from the Alcestis of Euripides / Euripdes ; done into English by Victor Plarr.

  • Euripides
Date:
[1886?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Scenes from the Alcestis of Euripides / Euripdes ; done into English by Victor Plarr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Ale. He drags me, some one drags me ! Dost not see Down to the House of Death, Glaring from underneath swart brows on me, Wing’d Hades hurrieth ! What wouldst thou ? Leave me ! What a journey's this Most miserable me! A dm. A grievous mourning to thy friends it is, And to thy babes and me, Whom this woe strikes in common. Ale. Leave me now, Leave me, for in my feet Strength lacks, and dark night creeps across my brow. Children, my children sweet, You have no mother left; farewell, mine own ; May your sunset be late ! Adm. Alas ! I hear a dread and bitter tone, Sadder than any fate. Ah, leave me not, ’fore heaven, and for their sake] Whom thou wilt orphans make ! Arise, behold, I should not linger on Wert thou once dead and gone. We live and die by thee, dear, evermore, For thy love we adore ! Ale. Admetus, thou beholdest all my state, And I will tell thee, ere it be too late What I would have. I, who so much adore thee As to have given thee life by dying for thee, Die, though I need not. For, although I could Have wed with what Thessalian man I would, And lived with him the dear tyrannic life, I could not bear to be another’s wife, Or make my children orphans. So I had Small care for that whereof I was so glad— The gracious gift of blooming youth, whilst they Who gave thee being hasted to betray,
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