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AMYNTAS.
129
SYLVIA.
Amyntas is no more?—How did he die?

DAPHNE.
I know not how; nor dare I to assert
That he is dead; but 'tis too probable.

SYLVIA.
What is it that I hear? I'm thunder-struck;
To what dost thou impute his death?

DAPHNE.
To thine.

SYLVIA.
I know not what thou meanest.

DAPHNE.
Of thy death
He heard the hafty news, and he believed it.
And this belief hath driven him to self-laughter;
Or by the noose, or dagger he hath died,
Or other implement of desperate love.

SYLVIA.
Thy apprehension of his death is vain,
As vainly thou didst fear that I was dead.

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