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SCENE VIII.

Enter CADMUS, ATHAMAS and INO.
INO.
Of my ill-boding Dream
Behold the dire Event.

CADMUS, ATHAMAS.
O Terror and Astonishment.

INO.
How I was hence remov'd,
Or hither how return'd, I know not:
So long a Trance with-held me.
But Hermes in a Vision told me
(As I have now related)
The Fate of Semele;
And added, as from me he fled,
That Jove ordain'd I Athamas should wed.

CADMUS.
Be Jove in ev'ry thing obey'd.

[Joyns their Hands.
ATHAMAS.
Unworthy of your Charms, my self I yield;
Be Jove's Commands and yours fullfill'd.

CADMUS.
See from above the bellying Clouds descend,
And big with some new Wonder this Way tend.