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SCENE IV.

Enter Arsinoe with Ormondo his Sword drawn, and Delbo on the Ground.
Orm.
As Roses show
More Pale with Dew,
So Suites this suddain Fright
My Charming Fair with you.
Detain me not,
I will pursue the Foe.

Arsinoe.
Hold, hold!
Ye Powers Divine
(Aside) as Fainting.)
How ev'ry Word
Melts down my Soul.

Orm.
Gods do you bleed?

Arsin.
Yes in my Heart,
(Aside.)
And owe my Life to you.

Orm.
Who can this be?
She walks and speaks a Deity!

(Aside.)
Arsin.
Who can this be?
Who Life, and Death bestows on me!

(Aside)
Orm.
Heavens! O what Anguish!

Arsin.
Gods! how I languish?

Orm., Arsin.
Leave me/Relieve me Blind God of Love

(Both)
Orm., Arsin.
Ease me/Release me Blind God of Love.

(Both)
Arsin.
Hah! then you know me.

Orm.
We may adore
A Deity unknown.

Arsin.
He seems Ormondo
It cannot be,
Ormondo's at the War.

Orm., Arsin.
So sweet an Air/So high a mean was never seen.

(Both)
Arsin.
Ye Gods! who can this be?

Orm.
A Lover.

Arsin.
Then depart.

Orm.
I go,
And leave my Heart.

(Is going.)
Arsin.
O stay,
Resolve not quite so soon!
Take this, and know
(She gives him a Scarf.)
I owe my Life to you.
If not enough,
(Aside.)
I owe my Heart and Crown.

(She goes out.)