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Scene Second.

Ulamer.
Ul.
She's gone! Perhaps for ever! How; for ever!
And can'st thou name it? Can'st thou bear the thought?
The Kindest, Tender'st and the best of Mother's?
She who has liv'd for thee, for thee has born—
Oh what has she not born—
Yet her can'st thou Desert? Can'st thou see her Dye?
By thy unkindness Dye? O Barbarous Son,
Ungreatful Ulamer! But then the Angians!
Can'st thou abandon them? Betray their Cause?
The Cause of Humankind? Of Godlike Liberty?
What can'st thou give up that to these sly Traytors:
Insidious Slaves who Insolently think
To Fool these Nations, and to obtain by Truce
What their base Fears restrain them from persuing;
By Honourable War, eternal mind,
Master of Life, great Mover of all Spirits;
O guide my Will, by thy unerring Light!
And by that Light, Illustrate my dark Reason:
Do thou inspire me with Expedient ways,
That I may neither give up thy great Cause,
Nor yet Betray my poor Afflicted Mother.
But see the French appear.

Flat Scene draws.