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SCENE VII.
Bellinda, Philander, Flamette, &c. to them Euphanes after.Bell.
I, here she is—
Rest gentle soul, and may nought heavy lie
Upon thee, to press thee to the shades beneath,
But ever in the Elizian fields among
The blessed Quires of Lovers, mayst thou be honor'd, and
Adored as Love's Martyr, and in his Kalendar
Be ever recorded as a Rubrique Saint;
Mean time, upon thy Anniversary day,
Each year, we'll pay our vows unto thy Tomb,
And to the King and Queen of Shades erect
Two grassie Altars, whereon wee'll offer our
Libations every year, so as all living Lovers
Envying thee, shall wish them dead to have the like
Obsequies; and lastly, wee'l
Inscribe an Epitaph on thy Sepulcher,
In reading which, all passing by shall know,
A gentler soul walks not i'th' shades below.
Eup.
[Enter Euphanes:
Room, room, for the most concern'd
In this Catastrophe—Fair sweetest flower,
By rigid Winter of Euphanes frowns and scorns
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Shall wretched Euphanes use now, to appease
Thy angry Ghost?
And with what sad Libations shall I invoke
Thy blessed Manes? take here this hair of mine
[tears his hair.
I offer on thy Tomb; and fairest soul,
For ever wayl'd, for ever pitty'd, if
Thou't deign to look upon me from the Groves
Of fair Elizium, behold, behold
Euphanes so strangely metamorphosed
Who living lov'd thee not, he now loves thee dead,
Thus ready with's life to expiat the crime
Which he committed, in being the loss of thine.
Fla.
offers to kill himself, & is withheld by Flamette.
Hold, hold, and know
Philena is not dead.
Eup.
We trifle both,—away.
Fla.
I adjure the sacred deity
She is not, but only by my Art entranc'd,
So deceiving and deluding her despair;
In witness of't, besprinkle but her face
With water, and you'll see she'll instantly return to life again
Eup.
Nay, if water may revive her, no other than my tears
Shall have the honour of't,
[he weeps over her
And if those will not do't,
I'll let out all my blood on her to boot.
Bel.
Oh! happy we if this be so.
Fla.
See, see, she begins to stir already.
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Marry and I'm glad on't, for I began to stink
With the fright they put me in.
Phi.
Ha! where am I? in Hell I cannot be
Since Euphanes who's my Heaven is here with me,
Nor can I be in Heaven, until I know
Whe'r Euphanes will be kind to me or no.
Eup.
Alas, alas, 'tis I rather my dear Philena am
In Hell until I know
Whe'r thou canst forgive my unkindnes to thee or no.
Phi.
Nay, if't only does depends on that,
There is no fear, I can resolve thee strait,
W'ar both in Heaven Euphanes since for me,
I do desire no greatet Heaven than thee.
Philos.
Ioy unto both, and joy then to us all
In the accession to our Festival,
O'th' glad conjunction of this happy pair,
I'th' joy of which each has peculiar share;
Let us conduct 'um to their marriage then,
And whil'st to th'Temple they are going,
Tell 'um this most worth their knowing.
Love that tends but too enjoying,
Is satiate soon and eas'ly cloying,
Only that o'th' Soul still do's
Wax perfecter, and more lasting grows.
So we compare those light desires,
Only unto blazing fires,
Whilst these like fire o'th' Element,
Last always, and are never spent.—
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Phi.
For us here, where we have found our happiness,
We are resolved, better to conserve it, even to remain,
And exchange our native Country for this happy soil.
Pam.
Beshrew me so wo'n't I,
For I've enough on't, if there be no Wenches here to be had;
Perhaps I may come here again when I'm old,
And have a mind to be good.
Pol.
Mean time who put off goodness to old age, are just like those
Who defer their Creditors till all their moneys spent.
Philos.
to Philander & Bellinda.
For you,
What should we say then for Conclusion,
But y'ar most welcom to Love's Dominion.
All.
[to the Auditors.]
Y'are most welcom to Love's Dominion.
[Exeunt Omnes.]
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