Love hates delay, nor suffers it:
He hasted to behold his wife—
And she again was lost to him.
So, then, the fortress that could yield to song,590
Be sure that fortress shall to strength belong.
ACT III
[Enter Hercules, just returned from the lower world, accompanied by Theseus.]
Hercules: O kindly lord of light, heaven's ornament,
Who circlest all the spaces of the sky
With thy flame-bearing car, and thy bright head