Autobulus
AUTOB. And here, methinks, we have very opportunely mentioned Alcestis; for although the temper of women has little to do with Mars, Love many times drives them to daring attempts beyond their own nature, even to death. And if there be any credit to be given to the fables of the poets, the stories of Alcestis, Protesilaus, and Eurydice the wife of Orpheus, plainly evince us that Pluto himself obeys no other God but Love. For, as Sophocles says, To others — be their fame or birth whate’er — Nor equity nor favor will he show; But rigorous, and without remorse severe, His downright justice only makes them know;
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