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Show 54 B V S I R I Sy Ram. A Villain. Nic. Hold. Ram. The worft of Villains. Nic. 'Tis too much. Ram, Oh Father/ Nic What would'ft thou ? Ram.&r, your Daughter - ivV. Rightly thought j She beft can comfort m e in all m y Sorrow : Call, call Mandane ; to behold my Child Wou'd chear me in the Agonies of Death* Call her, Ramefes Am I difobey'd ? Ram. Oh, Sir ! • Nic. What mean thofe Tr3nfports of Concern? Ram. Though I'm an Outeaft from your Love, I weep, T o open your black Scene of Mifery. Nic. Where will this end ? - - Oh m y fore-boding Heart / Ram. Should he, to whom, as to a God, at p3rt-ing, 01 gave, with ftreaming Eyes, your Soul's Delight, While yst your laft Embrace was warm about him, !oomy and dreadful as thi? ftormy Night, tfh on your Child, your Comfort, your Mandane, Ail fweet and lovely as the blufhing Morn, Ize hsr by Force, now Trembling, breathlefs, pal?, roltrate in Anguifh, tearing up the Earth, ploring, f.iriekingto the Gods and you.' -• i hold m y Brain ! • Look there, and think the reft. -•? back Scene opens. J darken'd Chamber, a Bed, nd the Curtains drawn. IVomen pafs cut, weeping • c. ^icanor falls hack on Ramefes. Nic. 1st poiTibfe ! My Child -My only D a u g h t e r / - - A The Growth of my own Life / That fweeten d Age K I N G ^ / Egypt. 55 And Pain ? • • Oh'Nature bleeds within me ! Mand. Weep not, m y Virgins, ceafeyour ufelefs Tears, Kindnefs is thrown away upon Defpair, And but provokes the Sorrow it wou'd eafe. Nic. Affift me forwards. Mand. Moft unwelcome N e w s ! Is he retum'd \ The Gods fupport m y Father. I now begin to wifh he lov'd m e \ef%. Nic. There, there fhe pierc'd the very tcnd'relT Nerve: She pities me, dear Babe, fhe pities m e , Through all the raging Tortures of her Soul She feels my Pain .' But hold, m y Heart, to thank her, Theni burft at once, and let the Pangs of Death Put Myron from my Thooght. B [GZ t. i~ Mand. Severed Fate L '"her' Ha. tagnij*- rv e d r a w n myFathet.t 1-Ufi For^e.ar,to "" me bY *>»t tender Name • Since I can't help thee, I woo'd fain forget PP'ne1'- [SceneJhun en thcm. Enter Syphoce*. »/?*>. /inu does thi* *«« dow„, e , t h l S m o T«yoD,doe,,hi,r a e I t yw An |