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Artaxerxes

Hoole, John (1727-1803)
  
ARTAXERXES.
  
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ACT I.
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ACT II.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.
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SCENE VI.
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SCENE VII.
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SCENE VIII.
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SCENE IX.
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SCENE X.
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SCENE XI.
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SCENE XII.
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SCENE XIII.
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SCENE XIV.
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SCENE XV.
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SCENE XVI.
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ACT III.

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SCENE XVI.

Artaban
alone.
At length I am alone, and once again
Can breathe at liberty. To hear myself
Declar'd Arbaces' judge, had nearly lost me.
But let me think no more on perils past,
Myself I've sav'd, now let me save my son.
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So when the sudden lightning flies,
The shepherd, struck with pale surprise,
Falls senseless to the ground:
But when he finds his fears were vain,
Again he rises, breathes again;
And careful numbers on the plain
His frighted flock dispers'd around.

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