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AMYNTAS.
And in that cave, he said, ungrateful women
Would live eternally, by Heaven's decree,
In darkness, frantick grief, and Stygian anguish.
Sylvia, if you persist to steel your heart,
Expect a mansion in that dire abode.
Well do the wretches in another state
Deserve to suffer unremitted torment,
Whom tears of misery never moved in this.

SYLVIA.
What did Lycoris then; how did she answer
This strange denunciation?

DAPHNE.
Art thou anxious
To know another's conduct?—mend thy own.
She answered with her eyes.

SYLVIA.
I understand not that:
The eye is mute; how can it form an answer?

DAPHNE.
A novice thou to love's expressive language!
The soft and strong emotions of the soul

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