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SCENE IV.

An apartment destined for Emirena in the imperial palace.
Aquilius
alone.
Unless invention frame some artifice
To work on Emirena, I am lost.

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Yes, generous Cæsar gives her to Pharnaspes.
If he, a lover, can expunge a passion
Which I with care fomented, he'll return
To love Sabina; she, whose image ever
Dwells in my heart. Ah! where is Emirena?
Behold she comes—Now to my wiles.