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Leucothoe

A Dramatic Poem
Bickerstaff, Isaac (1735-1812)
  
LEUCOTHOE.
  
[epigraph]
  
[epigraph]
  
ARGUMENT.
  
[castlist]
  
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ACT I.
 1. 
SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
 4. 
SCENE IV.
 5. 
SCENE V.
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ACT II.
 1. 
SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
 4. 
SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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ACT III.
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SCENE I.
 2. 
SCENE II.
 3. 
SCENE III.
 4. 
SCENE IV.
 5. 
SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.

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SCENE II.

During this scene Clytie attempts coming forward several times, but is with-held by her slave.
Leucothöe.
He's gone, and left me: hah! what means this dread?
Save me! a sword hangs hov'ring o'er my head.
Th'earth yawns to swallow me: I sink, oh Fate!
Alas! I'm frighted with my own conceit:
Nor sword, nor yawning earth, is here, and now
A lazy languor creeps along my veins;
Dull, and more dull my heavy eyelids grow,
And ev'ry sense accepts the leaden chains.
Oh, God of Sleep! arise, and spread
Thy healing vapours round my head;
To thy friendly mansions take,
My soul that burns,
Till he returns,
For whom alone I wish to wake.
There yield my thoughts their fav'rite theme,
And bring my lover in a dream.

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