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SCENE XIII.
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SCENE XIII.

Osrhoes, Pharnaspes, Emirena, guards.
Emir.
My father! shall I dare to call thee father?
Have I not murder'd thee?—If yet thy love—

Osr.
Away,—nor shake my constancy.

Emir.
Alas!
Well may'st thou drive me from thee—O! forgive
Your Emirena—See me here, my father,
Low at your feet.

Osr.
Leave, leave me, O! my daughter;
I've no resentment kindled against thee:
In this embrace receive my love and pardon.
Farewell the dearest part of Osrhoes' being!


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Emir.
O! fatal, last adieu!

Phar.
O! cruel parting!

Emir.
That kind embrace, that tender sigh,
That pardon given, that speaking eye,
But add to all my former pain,
And deeper dye the guilty stain!
What I have prov'd, what thou hast been
My conscious heart with anguish keen
Too late laments, and heavier mourns
The crime that thus thy love returns.

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