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SCENE IX.
Guns go off within. Montezuma, Orbellan, and Mexicans enter as retreating.Mont.
All, all is lost—the gods have arm'd our foes
With their own thunders!—What the utmost force
Of man can do, we fear not—but when earth
And Heaven combine against us—to retire,
Is due submission!
Orbel.
We but hear a sound,
And sink in death, for ever!
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Hark, they come!—
Haste sir, and gain the town, while I remain
To guard your rear, and chearfully return
That life you gave me.
[All retreat, except Guyomar.
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