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SCENE IX.

Enter Juno and Pallas.
Juno.
Pallas , to JOVE I have complain'd in vain,
Which gives Me, tho' Immortal, mortal Pain.
I scarce can tell which 'tis provokes Me most,
My Husband's Coldness, or My Wish thus crost.

Pall.
My Disappointment is as Great as Thine,
Therefore with Force united let us join,
To vex Our Rival, and Her Favourite Swain,
And fill with Horror all the Trojan Plain.

Juno.
Agreed: To Menalaus strait I'll go,
Rouse up his Wrongs, and teach him what to do:
A Numerous Fleet the Spartans shall prepare,
And plague Old Troy with a long tedious War.

Pall.
I like Your Thought: Your Motion's wond'rous Good:
Troy shall be ransack'd, and be dy'd with Blood.
Tell him that Pallas will direct his Arms,
Espouse his Cause, and save him from all Harms.
Amidst his Fleet Invisible I'll be,
And crown him with Undoubted Victory.
Soon to his Cost, the Proud, Imperious Boy
Shall wish he'd never heard, or thought of Troy;
Wish he had never the Fair Helen seen,
Or to Oenone false, and faithless been:
Soon shall he own, and that with Weeping Eyes,
That Pallas should have had the Golden Prize.

(They go out together.)