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SCENE I.
Regulus.
At length my Course of Duty to my Country
Is fairly run; and (thanks to all the Gods)
I've reach'd the Goal with some Degree of Honour:
Let me then say (I hope without a Boast)
I've done what Heav'n requir'd, and what Man ought.
Is fairly run; and (thanks to all the Gods)
I've reach'd the Goal with some Degree of Honour:
Let me then say (I hope without a Boast)
I've done what Heav'n requir'd, and what Man ought.
My next, last Office, is my own Concern:—
My Wife!—My Children!—O ye upright Gods!
Let me not faulter in my noble Purpose:
Lend me your Aid, assist me to sustain
The Weight that presses on my feebler Part;
Let me not feel what Nature is about,
Who, soft'ning every Heart-string to her Purpose,
Wou'd melt me to the Weakness of a Child:—
'Tis the last Struggle—shrink not Regulus
But prove thy Firmness equal to the End.
My Wife!—My Children!—O ye upright Gods!
Let me not faulter in my noble Purpose:
Lend me your Aid, assist me to sustain
The Weight that presses on my feebler Part;
Let me not feel what Nature is about,
Who, soft'ning every Heart-string to her Purpose,
Wou'd melt me to the Weakness of a Child:—
'Tis the last Struggle—shrink not Regulus
But prove thy Firmness equal to the End.
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