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SCENE IX.

Xerxes
alone.
This paper to Sebastes is consign'd,
And written by Orontes.—Let us now—
[reads.
O Heaven! what impious treachery! Sebastes
Is then the secret author of the tumults
In Egypt rais'd; while ever at my side,
With well-dissembled zeal—Behold him here;
And dares the traitor now appear before me?