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Thomyris, Queen of Scythia

An Opera
Motteux, Peter Anthony (1660-1718)
  
THOMYRIS, QUEEN of SCYTHIA.
  
PREFACE.
  
PROLOGUE.
  
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ACT I.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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ACT II.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE IV.
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ACT III.
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SCENE I.
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SCENE II.
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SCENE III.
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SCENE IV.
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SCENE V.

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SCENE III.

A Prison.
Tigranes is discover'd in Chains, with a Letter which he has been writing. He rises.
AIR.
Tigr.
Joy and Empire are no more.
Hope and Freedom are no more.
Fate of Comfort does bereave me:
Love alone will never leave me,
And despairing I adore.
Joy and Empire are no more, &c.
Die, Tigranes, then unknown,
To thy self a Stranger grown!
Shall Cleora know from me
Still I live, and she not free?—
But oh! Love once more bids me try
To free the Fair, and die.
Enter Keeper.
Thou Keeper of this Seat of Woe,
With this (a Soldier to relieve)
To the Persian Princess go,
[Gives him a Letter.
And share the Gift I may receive!
[Exit Keeper.
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Cruel Pow'rs, to you 'tis known
How (her Freedom to retrieve)
I fought, and lost my own.
But, 'till I both regain,
Can I her Love obtain!
“Unhappy Princes sue in vain.

AIR.
In vain is complaining:
The Way of obtaining
Is bravely to dare!
Fate ease me!
Release me!
My Passion so rages,
Success it engages,
Or noble Despair.
In vain is complaining:
The Way of obtaining
Is bravely to dare.

[Exit Tigranes.
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