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Alcestis, the queen of Thessaly, is sacrificing
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ALCESTIS (recovering herself) Admetus, you see the things I suffer; and now before I die I mean to tell you what I wish.
To show you honour and-at the cost of my life-that you may still behold the light, I die; and yet I might have lived
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The full-text of Alcestis from MIT Classics: http://classics.mit.edu/Euripides/alcestis.html
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