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Show IH! En H^H HI •W 354 The SPARTAN DAME. T o fuch a Reputation, that has been A Key to all their Counfels. I have ferv'd Your politick Dcfigns, and m a y aftift Your Love Affairs. Chcm. O ! there is Life in thee. Crit. All, Sir, depends upon this very Diy For the Succefs: hark, you are fummon'd forth [shm, T o head the Crowd: If your Ambition thrive, Ycu have her in your Pow'r. Cleom. If that (1 ou'd fail, I wo'not fail m y felf; Force fhall prevail. [Exeunt [Shews p^ Lyfander and Zenocles enter. Lyf. What's to be done? Ail's in a wild Comhiftion, Zen. The People, like a Torrent in its Fall, Disdaining Oppofitior, bear d o w n all Before'em: Ceremonies, Cuftoms, Rites, Laws humane and divine ; Orders, ard Men Devoted to the Gods, profan'd, and fcorn'd. Lyf. Ml Quality, Diitinclion,-and Decree O f Place, or Virtue, fwept away, like Ruhbilh, By the vile Hands of popular Confufion. Zen. Our Parry in rhe Senate-Houfe, I thought, W a « ftrong enough, concluding on thofe Fools O f Argument, and Noife, w h o roar'd tor us: But w h e n it came to Blows our Orators, So famous tor their Batrle* ar the Bar, And Vitfory in Words, fnesk'd from their Chairs, Stinted their Rhet'rick to a fingle Prayer, And wifh'd us well Lyf Slavs! w h o , but Minutes fince, D r e w d o w n the Terror of loud Laws upon us, And fpoke in Thunder; now, tho'they fee the Rabbit, M With more than barbarous Brutality, " Driwpg their lawful Monarch thro' the Streets, Have not the Courage of a Litlor's Voice, T o bid 'em Keep the Peace. ' Zen. Eurytion yet Stands firm, and conftant<! to the Royal Caufe. if The SPARTAN DAME. 3JJ lffi O'erpower'd by the Multitude, I faw him Retreat towards Juno's Temple. Zen. There the Street Isnarrow^ and may friend cur Purpofe well. lyf Th' Example of his Loyalty mav fteei us v To the performance of fome glorious Action, (j;cat as our Caufe, becoming honeft Men. Crites with Euphemia enters to 'em. Zen. The fair Euphemia! lyf O ! thou Royal Maid! fto Sanctuary left for Innocence! Info. 'Tis fit m y Father's Fortune (hou'd be mine. Crit. I've march'd this Casket trom the common Spoil, Worthy the Safeguard of the general Gods: And, as m y Mailer's Heart is treafar'd here, Will place her in the Virgin Goddefs' Shrine. Zen. The Gods, and good MensPray'rs muft fide with u?. [Ex. Crites with Euphemia one way, Lyfand?r and Zenocles another. Inttr Mandrocles and Thracion heading a Rabble of Citizens. Umd. " N a y Fellow-Citizens, you fhall bs fatisfied * In every Poinr. Thra " A n d have the Reafon?. i Cit. " W h y if w e have L a w for what w e do, « Wtnt care w e for Region? 2 Cit. L a w is above Reafon, I hope. ; Cit. Or fome of our Senators might be whipt for « their Speeches i Cit. "I grant you, Reafon does well enough within " doors, in the nma. ement of a Family, in the difcipline " of our Children, or in the correction of a Wife. i Cit. " The corrc&on of a Wife, Neighbour? " Have you'Law for that ? i Cit. «« No, but 1 have Reafon very often. So that I fay, " Between M a n and Man, Reafon may be reafonable ': Sometimes: But it it once meddles with State A flairs, " 'Tis an \(s, and deierves to leave his leather Ears " In the Piilory for affronting the Government. t; As for example n o w - « • a (Sit* |