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BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE.
A guest, he proves importunate!"
"The dead—Dead are they: but go thou within my house!"
"’Tis base carousing beside friends who mourn."
"The guest-rooms, whither we shall lead thee, lieApart from ours."
"Nay, let me go my way!Ten thousandfold the favor I shall thank!"
"It may not be thou goest to the hearthOf any man but me!" so made an endAdmetos, softly and decisively,Of the altercation. Herakles forbore:And the king bade a servant lead the way,Open the guest-rooms ranged remote from viewO' the main hall, tell the functionaries, too,