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Protesilaus

My heart is sick with hope deferred; thou too, O Pluto, hast loved; thou knowest what love is.

Pluto

What good will it do you to come to life for a day, and then renew your pains? 5

Protesilaus

I think to win her to come with me, and bring two dead for one.

Pluto

It may not be; it never has been.

Protesilaus

Bethink thee, Pluto. 'Twas for this same cause that ye gave Orpheus his Eurydice; and Heracles had interest enough to be granted Alcestis; she was of my kin.

Pluto

Would you like to present that bare ugly skull to your fair bride? will she admit you, when she cannot tell you from another man? I know well enough; she will be frightened and run from you, and you will have gone all that way for nothing.

Persephone

Husband, doctor that disease yourself: tell Hermes, as soon as Protesilaus reaches the light, to touch him with his wand, and make him young and fair as when he left the bridal chamber.

Pluto

Well, I cannot refuse a lady. Hermes, take him up and turn him into a bridegroom. But mind, you sir, a strictly temporary one,

XXIV

Diogenes. Mausolus

Diogenes

Why so proud, Carian? How are you better than the rest of us?