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SCENE VIII.

Periander, Eurydice, Melissa.
Melissa.
O! my Lord,
Some wonderous birth of fate is sure disclosing.
Procles calls out to arms: his guards swarm round him,
Haste in each step, and fear in every eye.
This way too Medon speeds, and in his train
A gloomy band of soldiers.

Periander.
Let him come.
Death has no terrors, when to live is shame.