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Scene XXV.

A Servant.—The Same.
Servant.
The Lord Governor Aurelius
Summons Cyprian to his presence,
And Justina.

Justina.
Ah! how happy,
If 'tis for the wished-for ending.
Do not, Cyprian, be disheartened.

Cyprian.
Faith, zeal, courage, all possess me:
For if life must be the ransom
Of my slavery to the devil,
He who gave his soul for thee,
Will he not give God his person?

Justina.
I once said that I could love thee
But in death, and since together,
Cyprian, we now must die,
What I promised I present thee.

[They are led out by the Servant.