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Penelope

A Dramatic Opera
  
  
  
  

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SCENE VIII.
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SCENE VIII.

Ulys.
We thank your Highness for this Service done.—
This is my old Friend Pallas; kneel my Son.

[They both kneel.
Min.
Ulysses rise from off your Marrow-bones;
Rise Tel; you'll hurt yourselves against the Stones.

[They rise.
Min.
I ne'er forget you: I've been here this Hour.

Ulys.
We know it Goddess; for we felt your Pow'r.

Min.
To all but you invisible I've been;
Too pure by vulgar Mortals to be seen;

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But yet the Rogues confess'd Me, in their Fright,
Like Dogs which howl when Spirits walk the Night.

Ulys.
To you, great Patroness, I owe my Life.

Min.
Well, say no more.—Go in, and kiss your Wife.

Ulys.
But see, she comes, flush'd with immortal Grace,
And like a Goddess blooming is her Face;
[Turning to Minerva.
She by thy Influence seems new Life to gain,
And I'm inspir'd with a sublimer Strain.
Approach Me Pen, and open all thy Charms,