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AMYNTAS.
Mopsusis heart is black; whence every object
Wears a grim hue to his distempered soul.
And though his warning in the main was just,
And holds too ftrongly in exalted life;
He was not seer enough to know the court
To which I went, was an exception to it.
In general, what he prophecies is false:
Hope then; and give his prophecy to thee,
A happy, and inverted explanation.
Wears a grim hue to his distempered soul.
And though his warning in the main was just,
And holds too ftrongly in exalted life;
He was not seer enough to know the court
To which I went, was an exception to it.
In general, what he prophecies is false:
Hope then; and give his prophecy to thee,
A happy, and inverted explanation.
AMYNTAS.
Thyrsis, thy words give comfort to my soul;
Be thou the generous guardian of my life.
Thyrsis, thy words give comfort to my soul;
Be thou the generous guardian of my life.
THYRSIS.
I'll not neglect the charge, I'll urge thy interest:
Fail not to meet me here within an hour.
Mean while, the duty of a man revolve,
And steel thy bosom with the firm resolve,
Not to resign thyself a dupe to fear,
By giving scope to fancy's wild career.
For oh! Amyntas! when misguided man
Departs from reason's all-sufficient plan,
I'll not neglect the charge, I'll urge thy interest:
Fail not to meet me here within an hour.
Mean while, the duty of a man revolve,
And steel thy bosom with the firm resolve,
Not to resign thyself a dupe to fear,
By giving scope to fancy's wild career.
For oh! Amyntas! when misguided man
Departs from reason's all-sufficient plan,
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