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[Scene V.
A Grove near Leptis.]Enter King and Gesippus.
King.
Thy councell, freind, mett with the wish'd event.
Candaces is become my Confident,
And shee advises as my only course
That I will threaten to make use of force.
My flame and her disdaine such torments prove,
That I must loose my life or quench my Love.
This truth I sent her by Candaces now,
And, as I made, soe will I act my vow.
Ges.
If you by force pursue what you have sedd,
You must resolve to take the Generalls head.
It were unwise, treating her at this rate,
To let him live, that wrong to vindicate.
King.
Yes, hee shall dye; that promise I let fall
Her teares did force, and 'twas Conditionall.
Since shee her mercy does to mee decline,
It is but Just I shou'd deny him mine.
My Guards forthwith about her Lodgings send;
Take from her all things which her life may end.
I know not what dispaire may make her doe;
Shee who does slight a Crowne, may slight Life too.
[Exeunt.
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