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SCENE XII.
Enter Arcas.Arc.
Ulysses.
Ulys.
Arcas here?
How hast thou found admittance in these walls?
Arc.
I saw you enter, and pursu'd your steps.
Ulys.
What hast thou learn'd meantime that may import
Our great design?
Arc.
But little, good my lord;
That to this land since first Nearchus came,
A year is now complete: with him he brings
His only daughter, grac'd above her sex
With more than female gifts: for her the princess,
The royal Deidamia, bears a love,
A wondrous love, beyond a woman's friendship.
Ulys.
How dost thou name this virgin?
Arc.
Pyrrha.
Ulys.
Pyrrha?
Arc.
And for her sake Nearchus holds a place
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Ulys.
And think'st thou this is little thou hast learn'd?
Arc.
Why what imports it?
Ulys.
O! my trusty friend,
In one short moment we have travell'd far.
Hear me, and then confess.
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