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SCENE I.

Arsinoe Sleeping in a Garden. The Time Night, the Moon Shining.
Enter Ormondo and Delbo.
Ormondo.
Queen of Darkness,
Sable Night,
Ease a wandring Lovers Pain!
Guide me,
Lead me,
Where the Nymph whom I adore,
Sleeping,
Dreaming
Thinks of Love, and me no more.
Guide me, Lead me, &c.

Delbo.
The farther I walk
(Stumbling.)
I Stumble the more,
I grope out my way
And tremble with Fear.

Orm.
Ye Gods what Heavenly Fair
Ormondo finds Arsinoe Sleeping.
What more than Mortal here
Do I behold?
Two Radiant Stars
On Phœbus Face
So shrow'd their Light.
Milky Hands;
And Purple Cheeks,
Lips of Coral,
Breasts of Snow!
Lillies, Roses, Pearly Dew
Yield in Beauty all to you!
Lillies, Roses, &c?