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SCENE IV.
SCEPARNIO and DÆMONES.SCEPARNIO,
(looking towards the sea.)
O Palæmon,
Neptune's associate, (nay, thou'rt call'd his partner,)
What do I see?
Dæm.
What do you see?
Scep.
I see
Two women sitting in a boat alone.—
Poor creatures, how they're tost!—That's good,—that's good,—
Well done!—See! the surge drives the boat away there
Off from the rock towards the shore!—a pilot
Could not have done it.—In my life, I think,
I never saw such billows.—They are safe,
If they can 'scape those waves.—Now, now's the danger!
Two women sitting in a boat alone.—
Poor creatures, how they're tost!—That's good,—that's good,—
Well done!—See! the surge drives the boat away there
Off from the rock towards the shore!—a pilot
Could not have done it.—In my life, I think,
I never saw such billows.—They are safe,
If they can 'scape those waves.—Now, now's the danger!
One is wash'd overboard,—but she is lighted
Upon a flat;—she'll easily wade through it.—
O bravo! bravo!—See, the surge has thrown her
Upon the land!—She's risen,—makes this way:—
All's safe.—The other too has leap'd on shore!
Ha! thro'her fright she's fall'n upon her knees
Into the sea!—Oh,—she is safe,—has got
Out of the water,—and is now on land.—
But she has taken to the right;—poor creature!
She'll wander there all day.
Upon a flat;—she'll easily wade through it.—
O bravo! bravo!—See, the surge has thrown her
Upon the land!—She's risen,—makes this way:—
All's safe.—The other too has leap'd on shore!
Ha! thro'her fright she's fall'n upon her knees
Into the sea!—Oh,—she is safe,—has got
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But she has taken to the right;—poor creature!
She'll wander there all day.
Dæm.
What's that to you?
Scep.
If she should topple from yon cliff, which now
She's making to, she'll briefly put an end
At once to all her rambling.
Dæm.
If you mean
To sup with Them this evening, it behoves you
To be concern'd about them; but if me
You think to eat with, you must mind my business.
Scep.
O to be sure.
Dæm.
Then follow me.
Scep.
I follow.
[Exeunt.
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