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Show 4I<S O R O O N O K O . I „r i T. ~ I ife and with this kindling Rift Gw. Iam amaz'dl B / M I >rn as n uch as you. urP* [Imoinda commit, ^ That Voice, that Face. pHr»j *k Oi if I k n o w m y felf, I cannot be miftaken. v* [RH?M and embraces Orooaok Oro. Never here; You cannot be miftaken: I am yours, Your Oroonoko, all that you would have, Your tender loving Husband. Zmo. All indeed That I would have: m y Husband! then I am Alive, and waking to the Joys I feel: They were fo great, I could not think em true, But I believe all that you fay to me: For Truth it felf, and everlafting Love Grows in this Breaft, and Pleafure in thefe Arms, Oro Take, take m e all: Enquire into my Heart, /You know the way to every Secret there) M y Heart, the facred Treafury of Love: And if, in Abfence, I have mtf-employ'd A Mite from the rich Store; if 1 have fpcnt A Wifh, a Sigh, but what I fent to you; May I be cnrft to wifh, and figh in vain, And you not pity me. Imo. O ! I believe, And k n o w you by m y felf. If thefe fad Eyes, Since laft w e parted, have beheld the Face Of any Comfort; or once wilVd to fee The Light of any other Heav'n but you; May 1 be ftruck this moment blind, and ioie Your blefled Sight, never to find you more. Oro. Imoinda \ O ! this Separation Has made you'dearer, if it can be fo ^ O R O O N O K O. zi7 Than you were ever to m e . You appear ' Like a kind Star to m y benighted Steps, To guide m e on m y W a y to Happinefs : 1 cannot mifs it n o w . ^ Governor, Friend, You think m e mad: But let m e blefs you all, Who, any way, have been the Inftruments 0. rinding her again. Imoinda'% found! And every thing, that I would have in her. [Embracing her in the moft pajftonate FondneCs Stan. Wheres your Miftrefs now, Governor? ' * Gov. W h y , where moft Men's MiftrefTes are forc'd to be fometimes, With her Husband, it feems: But I won't lofe her fo. Stan. He has fought luftily for her, and deferves her ' I'il.fay that for him. Blan. Sir, w e congratulate your Happinefs: I do moft heartily. Gov. And all of us: But h o w it comes to pif;- Oro. That will require More precious T i m e than I can fpare you n o w. I have a thoufand things to ask of her, And Ihe as many more to k n o w of me* But you have made m e happier, I confefj, Acknowledge it, much happier, than I Have Words, or Pow'r to tell you. Captain, yotf Ev'nyou, w h o moft have wrong'd me, I forgive,' I wonnot fay you have betray'd mfc n o w : I'll think you but the Minifter of Fate, To bring m e to m y lov'd Imoinda here. Imo. How, h o w fhall I receive you? h o w be Wo~thr 01 inch Endearments, all this Tendernefs > Thefe are the Tranfports of Profperity, When Fortune fmiles upon us Oro. Let the Fools, Who follow Fortune, Jive upon her Smile,. ^lourProfpencyisplacMinLove. W have enough of that to m a k e us happy. P « little fpot of Earth you ftand u p o n . 7 f ^ o e m me, than the extended Plains, P * Of |