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SCENE THE FOURTH.

Enter Otanes.
OTANES.
Arzaces waits your will.

SEMIRAMIS.
Bid him approach.
Ye gods, defenders of the Assyrian throne!
Who now inspire me, and direct my deeds:
Thou restless spirit of the murder'd Ninus,
And thou, O blessed shade of my dead son,
Unite your powers, and favour my Arzaces.