PROMETHEUS BOUND
HEPHAISTOS
Steel-hard thou ever wast and stout of heart.
KRATOS
Why, him our plainings physic not! and thou,
Lose not thy labour on what helps nowise.
HEPHAISTOS
Woe worth the cursèd cunning of these hands!
KRATOS
Why curse thy craft? that, surely, to plain thinking
Is innocent altogether of this coil.
HEPHAISTOS
Well, would some other had gotten it, not I!
KRATOS
Save the supreme arbitrament of heaven,
All things bear trouble: none but Zeus is free. 50
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