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Avaunt, with her that kennelleth with thee!

Childless grow old, as ye deserve, while lives

Your child: ye shall not come beneath one roof

With me. If need were to renounce by heralds

Thy fatherhood, I had renounced it now.

Let us—for we must bear the present ill—

Pass on, to lay our dead upon the pyre.

Alas for the loving and daring!

Farewell to the noblest and best!

May Hermes conduct thee down-faring

Kindly, and Hades to rest

Receive thee! If any atonement

For ills even there may betide

To the good, O thine be enthronement

By Hades' bride! [Exeunt omnes in funeral procession.

Enter Servant.

Full many a guest, from many a land which came

Unto Admetus' dwelling, have I known,

Have set before them meat: but never guest

More pestilent received I to this hearth:

Who first, albeit he saw my master mourning,

Entered, and passed the threshold unashamed;

Then, nowise courteously received the fare

Found with us, though our woeful plight he knew,

But, what we brought not, hectoring bade us bring.

The ivy cup uplifts he in his hands,

And swills the darkling mother's fiery blood,