Make Death receive her back: an easy task.

Heracles.

But will Alcestis see it, do you think?

Alcestis.

Please, don’t distress yourself on her account;

She’d leave her husband upon any terms.

Is there a woman in the whole wide world

That would not rather die a dozen times

Rather than live her life out with this man,

This puling, miserable, craven thing,