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Show »c8 The SPARTAN DAME. H o w will they Hulh for fo rniftaking me! Aief. Miftaking you indeed, and all your Ends. Cleom. Agef:laus, you are the Efhoms. The People's firft chief M?giftrate in Sparta. Age]. Bur y< u their Champion and Deliverer. Mand. The Patron of the People's Liberties. Thra. Their Lives, and Freedoms, all redeemM by yot] Cleom. Thefe are high funding Titles: but the way ' T o keep 'em mine? Agef. Bv paffirg of the Bills For cancelling D e b t s , - Cleom. And the dividing Lands. •« If L a w s will pleafe the Fools they fliall have Laws. Agef. Sir, cancelling their Debts, at prefent will Content 'em ; ftill keep fornething in your Hands; Dividing of the Lands m a y ferve a Turn Another time and make an After-Game. Ckom. I a m 3dvis'd; lead to the Senate-Houfe, Agef. Yet e'er you go, begin a Juftice here, Upon the People's, and your Enemies. Cleom. M y Mercy had forgot 'em; Zenocks, And you Lyfander, what you have advis'd, And acled agamft m e I freely pardon. But as you have betray'd the People's Truft, Being of the Ephorate, yet fiding with Leonidas againft their Intereft, J, in the People's N a m e , difcard you Beth From that high Office* which I will fupply With M e n of worthier Note: Ycu Mandrocks, And Thracion, Gail fill up this Vacancy. Mand. and Thra. W e are your Servants ever. Lyf. W e are doom'd. Zen. Is there ought elfe? Agef. Releafe 'em : Y o u are free. But here's a R o ^ Tnf\ripe, and ready for the Hangman's Hands. Ckom. Thou Firebrand of Fools! what canft thou lay T o qualify thy Mifchiefs by Excufe, In hopes cf Pardon ? Crit. W h a t I did, I did In honeft Earneft, and by open Day, In Dutv to the Intereft I ferv'd: The SPARTAM n M now to Hammer out a weak Defence Can't make m e innocent, but wonM u "?*' 3S9 A Fear, thar never fhall he P awrout'd™ .be ti* * Cleom. I k n o w thee dangerous- **t fi«^ A L „ Some irrues, t h a ? r e f c ^ ^ ^ ^ » haft The Truft, and Bofom of a Man I love And wou'd engage, I pardon all that's paft-lurjtion pardons thee: but his Heart fcorns' Tobeohiig'd: and therefore w e aie fore'd Not to depend up.m him.- Forward, friends.[Exeunt. Eurytioo enters to Lyfander, Zenocles and Critcs. Crit. Life is not yet become a Burden to m e; Therefore I offer up, in thankfulneis, To my Preferver, to Enrytion, My Days to come, and thdr beft Services, To wait upon your Fortune, TSttry. I accept Them, and thv Love, m y Critesl " Gentlemen, <• I think you're caft from your Employments too, (i Your Office in the State. lyf " U hy fare 'em well. \ Thofe worthy Men, w h o have fucceeded us, Are fitter for the pofture of Affairs. " Zen. Nor do I envy 'em the certain Fame, That muft attend the Story of thefe Times * To After-ages: I would be forgotten. Crit. ' Draw m e but to the Life, the Thing I am, " And let m e be remember'd, in the .Scene «01 this Day's Aclion, to the end of Time. "They onnot call us Tray tors, nor they ihannor. " We have ferv'd a Royal Mafter, and may live, Some God propofe the Means, again to ferve him, Who will fecure our Memories againft The cenfure of loofe Tongues, when theirs fliall ftink In common Graves, without as Epitaph. lury. C o m e to m y A r m s : "thou truly loyal Man! And 0 ! embrace him all: This Spirit feems Infpir'd to raife the Hopes of honeft Men, And I obey the Call: N o longer then Be our Hearts Strangers to each other's Breads: Fear-. |