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Had dream'd, she saw her husband in that plight
She now had found him: Feare and loue together,
Gaue her no rest, till they had brought her hither:
The nature of her feare did now begin
T'expell the feare of Nature; stepping in,
Betweene their pointing swords, she prostrate lay
Before their blood-bedabbled feet, to say
She knew not what; for as her lips would striue
To be deliuer'd, a deepe sigh would driue
The abortiue issue of her language forth;
Which, borne vntimely, perisht in the birth;
And if her sighes would giue her leaue to vent it,
O then a teare would trickle, and preuent it;
But when the winde of her loud sighes had laid
The shower of her teares, she sobb'd, and said:
O wretched eyes of mine! O wailfull sight!
O day of darknesse! O eternall night!
And there she stopt; her eyes being fixt vpon
Amphialus; she sigh'd, and thus went on:
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