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Show ,or 7^FATBO/C A P U A - laur Virginia md Junius. W f f V ' S command all here, Vir. I need not tell you, y ^.^ And that you have you*^• , ^ n<x, SiaS'jSSkthy Condition. Thou art not well. vS'JSS CaretLy will recruit again. Reft on m y Arm, and let m e lead you m. SCENE Changes to Favonia'r Apartment. Tavonia leaning on her Hand in a Chair. Virginias k*iiH *av Junius into the Room. Vir. Tavonia Tav. Ha! w h o calls? ?«» 1 can no more: I muft end here. [Taints at the fight of Favonia,^ j M , tfjgbifb, Jaa/. Ha! Vir Fall into thefe Arms, Thev'never will refufe to bear thee up, TaJnia, call for help; he comes again5 ic«yi lend your Hand, fofc, gently fet him down, ° *'' f [I» /k Chair fhe rtfo M if H o w is it n o w ? 7a». Confounded in m y Shame, That m y Infirmity ihould here intrude. Your Pardon, Madam, will recover me. Vir Rally your routed Spirits to your Aid, Reft will compofe and bring 'em back again. I cannot ftay with you, but will return T o cheer, to comfort you, and to renew The paft Endearments of our former Friendihf. I wilt provide you Balm for all your Wounds: M y Wife her felf, your kind Pbyfician, Will wait upon you, 'till I come again. I ^ Favonia and Junius. fun I'm hunted to the Brink of the Abyfc; Plunce in I muft, and to the bottom now. 7&*FATB*/CAPU A, Befpeaking Pardon, if I wildly Ihould, In queftioning the Gods upon m y Fate Say any thing towards difturbing y O U ' fav. O rife: I muft not hear you on vour J B L LU fun. {* Weft, that you will hfear 2 7 ^ £ ^ But 0! the Accent of m y Voice is chano'd : X> you cannot k n o w it n o w in Mifery. There was a time, in the gay Spring of Life, When every Note was as the mounting Lark's," j4erry, and cheerful, to falute the fylorn 5 When all the Day was made of Melody. But it is paft, that Day is fpent, and done, And it has long been Night, long Night with me. I have been happier, you have known m e fo. Tavi Alas! there is no Fortune perfect here, fun. Indeed I find it: W h e n I enter'd firft Into the Lift of this contending World, 1 promis'd fair for a more profperous Courfc; The Favourite of Fortune, and the Friend, To perfect all, of m y Virginias: We liv'd the Envy of our Capuan Youth, The moft afpiring to the glorious Fame Of Friendfhip, only imitated us, So bleft you found us. lav. Would to all the Gods I ne'er had come between you, to divide, To part fuch Friends. Jim. O ! had w e parted there: He to the rich PoiTcflion of your Charms j I to a poorer Fortune in m y Love 5 Yet rich enough, and happy in Content, All had been well: But he would have m e horned Fav. O! 1 remember his Impatience. Jm. To be a Witnefs of his Happinefs. And fo I was. I heard him every Day Tranfported in the Riot of the Theme j Fuli of the ravifhing Difcoveries He hourly made in that bleft Land of Love: The ever rifing Springs of flowing Joy j The hoarded Mines of Treafures, yet unborn: LWkh fuch a rapture of Variety, 305 Of |