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SCENE XVI.

Cleonice
alone.
At length ambitious views be satisfied:
See me forsaken, see me now depriv'd
Of all I priz'd!—what unpropitious power
Implanted in mankind this thirst of honour?
What to the world avails this tyrant glory,
If purchas'd with such pain? If we to live
For that, must die to every bliss beside?