Too prompt to work a cruel stepdame's will.
Theseus: Who ever called an act of madness crime?
Hercules: Unbridled madness often ends in crime.
Amphitr.: Now is there need of Hercules to bear
This greatest weight of woe.
Hercules: Not yet is shame1240
So utterly extinguished in my heart,
That I can bear to see all people flee
My impious presence. Arms, my Theseus, arms!
I pray you give them quickly back to me.