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SCENE XX.
Enter Barsene.Bar.
O queen! Seleucia
Is all in tumult.
Cleo.
Wherefore?
Bar.
Know the envoy
Is now arriv'd from Crete, and with him brings
A hundred ships.
396
'Tis well, he shall be heard.
Bar.
But rash Olinthus, whose impatient pride
Can never brook Alcestes on the throne,
Has join'd the ambassador, and 'midst the people
Proclaims aloud Phenicius has deceiv'd them,
Declares that he can prove his saying just,
And that to him is known the true Demetrius.
Cleo.
Alas! Phenicius.
Phen.
Banish every fear,
And with security ascend the throne:
It shall be seen on which side falsehood lies.
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