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Show ao6 The FATE */CAPITA, Therefore moft fit tor m e to lUy at home. O b Met the Steps of Youth be cautious, S o w they advance into a dangerous World* O u r D u t v only can condua us fafe: Our Paflions are Seducers -But of all, T h e ftrongeft, Love: H e firft approaches us, In childiih Play, wantoning m our Walks: If heedleflv w e wander after him, As he will pick out all the dancing Way, We're loft, and hardly do return again; W e fhould take warning, he is painted blind, T o fhow us, if w e fondly follow him, T h e Precipices w e m a y fall into. Therefore let Virtue take him by thc Hand, Direaed fo, he leads to certain Joy. r^ Enter Cttixjens. 5 Cit. Is there no more to be feen? Is thc Shew oro already? Is this all? , Cit. All! w h y , what did you cxped? * Cit. E x p e a ! marry, I expected 2 Ot. Y o u faw, Hannibal, did you not? a Cit Yes, yes, I faw Hannibal. But,what?Ithough{ Tie had been half as big as one of his Elephants: Your He. roes, I find, are little more than other Men, when joa come near to examine 'em. i Cit But did you mind his Looks? a Cit. H o w terrible he lookt with that one Eye! 2 Cit. Very terrible indeed. 7 Or. I ftood by him a good while, aad heard he faid to the Senate w h e n they met him. Jl&b-i preWhis Friendfcipbeforert Hance with the Rwwaw. *S WhrTtaSS* that c*-wu.i time, be the capital City of Italy. ',2. &SKS-. *-f--g People, fhould do H o m a g e to us, and fall «•»«• vernment. jCii * i T^ FATE of CAPUA: X9J IC//. Nay, Tacuvius told us as much; that when thc War was at *" end, and Hannibal thc Conqueror, he wou'd carry back his Forces into Africk, and leave us the Empire of Italy. W e (hall all be great Men. i Cit. But I did not fo well like the end of his Speech. tCit. H o w fo? , cit. 'Twas all againft Decius Magius: And truly he came to plain fpeaking at laft, and told 'em roundly, he expected they fhould deliver him into his Power. iCit. And what faid the Senators? iCit. W h y truly not much to the purpofe at that time: Some faid Magius did not deferve to be fo us'd neither; others, that fuch a Beginning would have an ill End; but they agreed at laft to deny nothing to Hannibal, and fo «ve the old M a n up to his Mercy. 2 Cit. See where he comes! 3 Cit. O what a Sight is here ? l Cit. A Rope about his Neck, and bound in Chains. iCit. A Carthaginian Guard upon him too. Inter an Officer with a Guard of Carthaginians before and behind Magius, chain'd, with a Rope about his Neck, and led along by a LicJor. Of. Have your Eyes every w a y upon the Crowd; If any Man but feems to pity him, [To the Guards. Secure him as an E n e m y to the State. > Mug. You fee, m y Countrymen, the Liberty You have brought h o m e at laft for you, and yours. Here, in the Forum, in the barefae'd Sun, You fee a Citizen of Capua, Second to none in N a m e and Dignity, Torn from his Friends, and for^d in Chains to Death. Go meet your Hannibal, crowd all your Streets} Drefs up your Houfes, and your Images, And put on all the City's Finery, To confecrate this Day a Feftival "barbarous Triumph over you and me. Of, Til fpoil your Speech-making; drag him along. [Exeunt, the Lidor dragging Magius off the Stage. iCit, O ! piteous Speaaclc. 3C«. Piteous indeed. »C«. This is the fetting out of Slavery, N s %a* |