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SCENE III.

EUMEMES, NARBAS, EURICLES.
EUMENES.
Where did this ill-instructed Tyrant learn
To threaten, for Persuasion!—I suspect,
He does not seem to doubt, but doubts indeed,
I share no Blood of Hercules.—He's gone:
And call'd me, to his Altar.—Let us follow.

NARBAS.
Stay.—Whither wou'd such fatal Rashness lead you?

EURICLES.
The Queen has Friends: howe'er too weak, too few:
Who dare defend her Cause. Give us but Time
To weigh, and to resolve, and these shall aid you.

EUMENES.
No.—In an Hour so black, so dire, as This,
I task but my own Heart, and Heaven, to aid me.
If I must fall, I will.—I go—to try
What God forsakes the Friendless.

[Going out, meets Merope.