Admonish the Turannos—"Be a man!

Bear thine own burden, never think to thrust

Thy fate upon another and thy wife!

It were a dubious gain could death be doomed

That other, and no passionatest plea

Of thine, to die instead, have force with fate;

Seeing thou lov'st Alkestis: what were life

Unlighted by the loved one? But to live—

Not merely live unsolaced by some thought,

Some word so poor—yet solace all the same—