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Demetrius

Hoole, John (1727-1803)
  
DEMETRIUS.
  
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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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SCENE XVII.
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SCENE XVIII.
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SCENE XIX.
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ACT II.
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ACT III.

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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?

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