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Demophoon

Hoole, John (1727-1803)
  
DEMOPHOON.
  
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ACT I.
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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 II.
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ACT III.

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SCENE II.

Timanthes
alone.
Why should we covet life? What are its charms,
For all degrees are wretched? Every state
Partakes of misery. In infancy
We tremble at a frown: in ripening youth
We are made the sport of Fortune and of Love:
In age we groan beneath the weight of years:
Now we are tormented with the thirst of gain,
And now the fear of loss: eternal war
The wicked with themselves maintain; the just
With fraud and envy. All our schemes are shadows,
Vain and illusive as a sick man's dream!
And when we but begin at last to know
Our life's whole folly, death cuts short the scene:
O then let death at once—

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