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SCENE VI.
Enter a Herald, to Zimon, and Ammon.Zimon.
Hail, sacred Messenger!
What from the Senate? can I serve the State?
I've liv'd for Greece, and now for Greece wou'd dye!
Be brief with me!
Herald.
Let mighty Zimon know,
Athens once more invites him to the Field.
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And rise again, to fall before thy Sword.
This will inform you—
[Delivering a Paper.
Ammon.
Now, ye equal Powers!
Pour down your Vengeance on th' Athenian Pride!
May Persian Rage devour their guilty Land,
And kill the Name of Athens!
Herald.
Athens greets thee—
[Proceeding with Zimon
The Senators of Athens are thy Friends:
And, as a Proof of the good Will they bear thee,
Have sent thee here a Grecian Enemy;
A young and riotous Nobleman of Athens.
Zimon.
Hah!
Herald.
Who, with others his Associates,
All in the Fever of their youthful Blood,
Was seiz'd in Combination even now
To have forc'd thy House, and spoil'd thee of thy Daughter.
Zimon.
Oh, my Hesione!—
Herald.
The Senate waves
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Th' Offender to thy Sentence—bring him forth!
Omphales
within.
Unhand me! by the Gods, I'm basely wrong'd!
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