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Show 2Z E D W A R D and At every Thought of Her, I feel a Weight, A dreadful Weight of Tendernefs, that fhakes M y firmeft Refolution- Where is (he ? Theald She burns with fond Impatience to attend you. JEdw. And how, brave Glofter, did you leave the Camp ? G / ^ r The Camp, Sir, is fecure: each Soldier there From Indignation draws new Force and Spirit. O'tis a glorious, an affecting Sight ! Thofe iurrow'd Cheeks that never knew before The D t w of Tears, now in a copious Shower Are baih'd Around your Tent they, various, croud, Rank over Rank : fome preffing for a Look ; Some fadly muling, with dejected Eye ; Some, on their Knees, preferring Vows to Heaven; And, with extended Arm, fome breathing Vengeance. «* Bafe Saracens, they cry, perfidious Cowards ! « But Bloou fhall wafh out Blood Ah ! poor Atonement ! « Did the whclc bleeding City fall a VicTim" ! Edw What unbought Love and generous Valour fire The free born Heart.! • ,,-Yet moderate their Zeal ; And let the Sword of Juftice only ftrike The faithlefs .Selim, and his guilty Creatures. M y new departed Spirit, juft efcap'd From the low fev'rifh Paffions of this Life, Would grieve to fee the Blood of Innocence, With that of Guilt confounded, ftain m y Tomb. Theald Permit me, Sir, the Hope, that you your fcjf I fpeak it on juft Caufe may live to punifh This Breach of all the facrcd Rights of Men. Edw. W h y will you turn myThoughc, fromEarth enlarg'd, T o loft enfeebling Views of Life again ? Theald, E L E O N O R A . *3 , , . . . „ , Vain Defire of Life, m y Lord, ^ e S t ^ m ! bat infpire each Hope, >*°rLlrib Poflibility to fave it. V ?fl°ll Arabian Princef. mention? one JW«-,TX,\Z. •_- Daraxa /-fomething to H^IeYoaCcouia not wrong her thus, fheald- » oa t - ,t 0f her Soul, H»« V°° e S £ Confofion, when Ihe heard H" Grlff'n^nef. had you feen that Honour, Of&^.^ðat P",ed ,rom h " Ey6S » Tbatgloriou» r as Sonow funk> 'TiU!" ft inaal'd Eleonora-* Tear.. ^tm°awa.itftepropoS-d? /ft-PS wC with friendly Lip, B g * T . the deadly Spirit JfV.S- bu.i*i« not, good Theald, I Adin^i to the kind Performer I h\hcali. Yes, furely fatal. ^^Se'tKahrVueitpurchas-d. ffief w f f i S S cnVprfeFo ralhly . Befides, *"- T , f low Condition, °AK pSik R«k : when Life or Death Becomes theVuition, all D ^ n ^ o n s vanifh ; S n r t . firfiWarch and the oweil Slav On the fame Level ftand, in This the Sons Of equal Nature all. Theald Allow me, Sir. If 'tis a certain, an eftablifti d Dut>, Than Dury more, the Height of human \ irtue, To facrifice a tranfitory Lite _ For that kind Source from whence it w « n v a, And all its guarded Joys, our deareft Country j To facrifice it in the Caufe of Heaven, B 4 Au' |