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Scena Secunda.
Enter the King, Eucratia Hiparchus and Pausanes all above.King.
The storme begins to cease
And this our miraculous deliverance
Calls for a hearty and speedy sacrifice,
Oh Sir looke they swim still!
Euc.
In Charitie as a sacrifice for our deliverance
If it be possible save 'um, the youth
That strikes the water with unskilfull oares
O save, save th'innocent.
Pau.
Be at peace if it be in man
Ile save him.
Hip.
What doe you meane?
Pau.
To leape in.
Hip.
Tis desperate.
Pau.
Tis honest, nay tis honorable, and when
Can a young man die better, or hope to have
His end waited on with braver mourners,
Thou seest I have hunted from danger to danger
All my life but to finde a name, or one
To owne me, and cannot compasse it,
Therefore to choose I'de leape into this danger
From this glorious end I may in story,
Therefore leave to counsell and leape in with me
And let us through this as a thousand other
Dangers to gather labour, then if I faint
Hiparcus will be by, or if Hiparcus faint
Am not I there? farewell, if thou wilt not follow.
He leapes it.
Hip.
Hee's gone, Pausanes! friend steere thy course
To yonder fire, there I'le meete; And
King.
Yee Gods! what strange breed of men are these!
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