Or thrust me from the allegiance of his heart.
Admetus. What now I say shall never be unsaid.
Alkestis. Then here our children I entrust to thee.
Admetus. And I receive them as the gage of love.
Alkestis. Be thou a mother to them in my place.
Admetus. Need were, when such a mother has been lost.
Alkestis. Children, I leave you when I fain would live.
Admetus. Alas! what shall I do, bereft of thee?
Alkestis. Time will assuage thy grief: the dead are nought.
Admetus. Take, take me with thee to the underworld.