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AMYNTAS.
Thou hast been only my unthinking friends;
But she was ever my deliberate foe.
But now the wished-for crisis sure is come;
Now have I reached the extremity of woe;
Fortune must now be willing to dismiss me,
Tired, or unable to distress me more:
And thou too, Daphne, wilț, at length, from friendship,
Assent that I should manumit my soul,
Too long a tortured prisoner in this body.
But she was ever my deliberate foe.
But now the wished-for crisis sure is come;
Now have I reached the extremity of woe;
Fortune must now be willing to dismiss me,
Tired, or unable to distress me more:
And thou too, Daphne, wilț, at length, from friendship,
Assent that I should manumit my soul,
Too long a tortured prisoner in this body.
DAPHNE.
Thy grief, and wild despair shut out thy reason;
As yet the tale is not completely known;
Live yet awhile, till thou hast learned the whole.
Thy grief, and wild despair shut out thy reason;
As yet the tale is not completely known;
Live yet awhile, till thou hast learned the whole.
AMYNTAS.
Alas! too long I've lived; too much I've learned.
Alas! too long I've lived; too much I've learned.
NERINA.
I wish that Providence had struck me dumb
Ere I began to tell this dismal story!
I wish that Providence had struck me dumb
Ere I began to tell this dismal story!
AMYN-
