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SCENE VI.

Dorisbe's Apartment. Enter Feraspe.
Feraspe.
Happy he who void of Love
No beauty Prizes,
Or dispises,
Never fearing,
Or despairing.
Not Aspiring,
Or desiring,
Happy living void of Love.
Never fearing, &c.

Enter Nerina.
Feraspe.
Nerina?

Nerina
My Lord.

Fer.
Where is Dorisbe?

Ner.
In her Apartment.
But how came you here?

Fer.
Nerina kind Nerina,
You alone
Can help to ease my Pain

Ner.
My tender Heart
Ev'n melts with Grief,
What can I do?

Fer.
Show me Dorisbe,
Let me see
The Charming Fair:
I Perish in a Storm of Love,
Am sinking in Despair.

Ner.
If you are Wise,
You'll take Advice,
And live as others do;
'Tis the Fashion
Without Passion
To make Love, and not be true
'Tis the Fashion, &c.

Fer.
Behold she comes,

Ner.
I'm lost undone:

Fer.
Peace, I'll abscond.

Ner.
There in the Closet.
Bolt the Door,
(He retires, and Harkens.)
If she perceives,
I am undone.

(Goes out.