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Show 5Q8 The FATB 0/CAPUA. !»«» "Tis well if it g o « «° farther: Not allow *» pity our Fellow-Citizens! fe ^eWnr^etnfelvesalread, *0> In Colours I don't like: W e may repeat to, late what w e h a v ^ d o n e . ^ c . . ^ w ^ . Cit O you have loft the beft of the Shew, tke fi. f 4iT Prifotier< and the Qufhel of Gold Rings. I rtr What 1 there were fo many R»»M» Knights liM| and taken at Cmu. that their feveral Rings, in»heapto-gether, fill'd a Bufhel. cit So they fiy, indeed. Vcit Why, then their Bufhel lies out of all tneafure, is my Gpi«g. three hundred Knights thlt wcredeWj tots would have been worth your feeing, gallant Fi i !'i^eed and wounded moft of "em. l 0 ^ o " Some body faid, That Junius was found an,«j the Prisoners. .^ ^ Countryman was mmgs U was 1 id to be kill'd at Cmm, but he. alive a g M in a way to do very well. , Cit He's a Pi il'oner, you lay. J O&i-.'how.rtthourcfto.'aioIA! A n d ( by Miracle to H . P P * * * b,eft Fatt Tor tho' the bounteous Cods h a v W J With all the good things, elfe, ot tm* g Yet wanting thee, wanting m y other m, 1 could not be entire to m y Content, ^cannot trace, and only can adnure. , The F A T E nf n , Thus thy good Fortune rifes from the bad Hadft thou not been at Coma, taken there •* Had we not leagu d our State with Hannibal- Thou hadft not been among the PrifonVrS IhtBman Knights,* to be delivered here-' Thou hadft not feen thy Country, City, Friends- Nor ihould I had the Intereft and Power With Hannibal, to gain thy Liberty. fun. I wonnot be obliged for any thing, J do not underftand a Benefit. I'm Pris'ner of an honourable War; And do defpife m y Freedom, but on Terms As brave and honeft, as I parted with it: Such Terms I muft defpair of finding here. Vir. W e do invite you to an equal (hare Of ail th1 Advantages of Government, Of Place, and Power, with us in Capua. fun. Therefore I do refufe m y Liberty. Vir. You wonnot fure refufe it from a Friend. fun. I have no Friend, nor I pretend to none. Vir. You have been mine, and you have thought me yours. fun. That was in our young Days; when every thing Wasfwallow'd, and went credulcufly down. Our Pieafures hurrying on in the fame Courfe, Whea we purfu'd 'em with the fame Defires, With the fame ftretch, and eagernefs of Youth: Our Manners too in every thing ally'd; Then we were Friends for our Convenience. But when the Bufinefs of the World comes on, Juftling between ambitious Itvterefts, 'Tis then, in the great Voyage of our Life, As if our VelTels ftruck upon a Rock, Each Ihifts a feveral way to Tcape the Wreck, And fink, or fwim, m y Friend; nay, plunge him down, So by his Ruki I get fafe to Shore. Vir. It never can be fo between us two. I have no Ambition, have no Intereft, That Friendfhip can fufpecl:, or fplit upon. Friendfhip rs Riches, Power, all, to me. Friendihip's another Element of Life: Water If |