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Show I ) I if 3° B U S I R I S> King. Oblige me with it. Queen. Will you comply ? King M y Queen, m y Pow'r is yours. Qyeen. Your Queen I King. M y Queen. Queen. Indeed, it fhou'd be fo. • Then fign thefe Orders for Amelia's Death,- H e ftarts, turns pale, he's finking into Eearth. Enough ; be gone, and fling thee at her Feet ; Doat on my Slave, and fue to her for Mercy. Go, pour forth all the Folly of thy Soul ; But bear in mind, thou giv'ft not of thy own, Thou giv'ft that Kindnefs which I bought with Blood, Nor fhall I lofc unmov'd. King. I wifh, m y Queen, This had fkpt a Secret for thy fake ; But fince thy rcftlefs Jealoufy of Soul Has been fo ftudious of its own Difquiet; Supp rt it as you m a y - I own I've felt Jmelia'i Charms, and think them worth my Love. Queen >ind dar'ft thou bravely own it too ? Oil Infult ! Forgetful M a n I 'ry# I then owe a Crown ! Thou had'ft ftill gr ovell'd in the lower World, And view'd a Throne at diftance ; had not I Told thee thou waft a Man, and (dreadful Thought!) Thro' my own Brother cut thy W a y to Empire : But thou might'it well forget a Crown beftow'd, That Gift was fmall. I liften'd to thy Sighs, And ras'd thee to m y Bed. Kings I thank you for it. The Gifts you made me were not caft away; I underftand their Worth ; Husband and King Are Names of no mean Import they rife high Into Dominion, and are big with Pow'r.' * Whate'er I was, I now am King of Egypt, And Myris' Lord. Queen I dream .' art thou Bufiris * Rujiris, that has trembled at m y Feet, And art thou now m y Jove with clouded Brow, ' Dif • I KING of Egypt. Jr DiAjen.fI.ng Fate, and looking down on Myris ? Dolt thou derive thy Spirit from thy Crime t 'Caufe thou haft wrong'd me, therefore dofi thou threaren, And roll thine Hye in Anger ? Rather bend And fue for Pardon. oh dueftabie'.r Burn for a Stranger's Be --- - When Myris fab rouchfaf'o to fmileon me i Queen. Diftradi Dear / Upbr^ded for my 1 ove ' _ Tliou art nor only Cr I, but Bafe. llnH"S^l]gk€Uu If> *mbi«on ^ it, For know nf"' i" ^ 3 d <b o v* thc C^ud ' &lZi£r^ rC Cr°wn rhat cha'™'<* «ef But thou ean'ftCd 7 ^°T t0 W H w t ' Kin* % J? hy Djudc«l Wltfl oiaVv. p/g%esa*Ki*iit«, "* ^g. Let fair ^. know the King attends her Living or dead \CA1 l i] ° ertake thee Shriek'in'h 1 r ' Skl^** ** A In Death M/trinmi 1? 7 fta,k bcfore thY five/- ., Arms; ' J*n cialpd within ' hy Tormtntt »«U ^ore roy state. [Exeunt. ame her A CT |