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Achilles In Scyros

Hoole, John (1727-1803)
  
ACHILLES IN SCYROS.
  
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ACT I.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
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SCENE VIII.
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SCENE IX.
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SCENE X.
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SCENE XI.
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SCENE XII.
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SCENE XIII.
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SCENE XIV.
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SCENE XV.
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SCENE XVI.
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SCENE XVII.
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SCENE XVIII.
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SCENE XIX.
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ACT II.
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ACT III.

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SCENE XI.

Ulysses
alone.
Or fond desire
To find this youth presents in every place
His imag'd form, or Pyrrha is Achilles.
I well remember such were Peleus' features
In manhood's ripening years—that speech, those looks—
It must be so—but yet Ulysses' caution
Will not too soon confide: who knows? Appearance
May still deceive me. Should this prove Achilles,
I will be wary ere I speak: the time,
The place, each circumstance must all be weigh'd.
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That pilot rarely ploughs the waves with safety,
Who sounds not first the depth. We yet must pause
Till all is ripe before we strike the blow,
Then make it sure.

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