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SCENE VII.

Enter Omphales (struggling with the Guards) to Zimon, Ammon, and the Herald.
Zimon.
Release him!

[To the Guards.
Omphales.
Where's the Wretch whose treach'rous Heart
The warmest Friendship, and the strongest Vows
Cou'd not secure from Falshood? he who shar'd
My Heart, and Fortunes, yet seduc'd me forth,
That in my Absence he might steal away
My only valued Treasure?

Ammon.
Such a Wretch
Shou'd Ammon be!—if Vengeance is thy Thirst,
Come on! and meet an Opposite, whose Hopes
Are not in Victory!—

[Draws.
Omphales.
So desperate?
Then thus—and so I pay thy Perjuries!

[Wrests his Sword from one of the Guards.
[They fight: Ammon is driven off.