--
But say, what need brings thee in days like these
To
Thessaly
and Pherae's walled ring?
Euripides - Alcestis
Oh, love of two hearts that stay
One-knit for ever....
THIRD ELDER.
'Tis rare in the world! God send
Such bride in my house to be;
She should live life to the end,
Not fail through me.
[_As the song ceases there enters a stranger, walking strongly, but
travel-stained, dusty, and tired. His lion-skin and club show him to
be_ HERACLES.]
HERACLES.
Ho, countrymen! To Pherae am I come
By now? And is Admetus in his home?
LEADER.
Our King is in his house, Lord Heracles.
--
But say, what need brings thee in days like these
To
Thessaly
and Pherae's walled ring?
HERACLES.
A quest I follow for the Argive King.
LEADER.
What prize doth call thee, and to what far place?
HERACLES.
The horses of one Diomede, in Thrace.
LEADER.
But how...? Thou know'st not? Is he strange to thee?
