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" I learn no whit the more, so dark thy speech ! "

" Know'st thou not on what fate she needs must fall ? "

" I know she is resigned to die for thee."

" How lives she still, then, if submitting so ? " sos

" Eh, weep her not beforehand ! wait till then ! "

" Who is to die is dead ; doing is done."

" To be and not to be are thought diverse."

" Thou judgest this — I, that way, Herakles ! "

" Well, but declare what causes thy complaint ! βίο Who is the man has died from out thy friends ? "

" No man : I had a woman in my mind."

" Alien, or some one born akin to thee ? "

" Alien : but still related to my house."

" How did it happen then that here she died ? " as

" Her father dying left his orphan here."

" Alas. Admetos — would we found thee gay, Not grieving ! "

" What as if about to do Subjoinest thou that comment ? "

" I shall seek Another hearth, proceed to other hosts." 820

" Never, Ο king, shall that be ! No such ill Betide me I"

" Nay, to mourners should there come A guest, he proves imiwrtunate ! "

" The dead — Dead are they : but go thou within my house ! " " 'T is base carousing beside friends who mourn." 825