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Scene XV.
Cyprian.You must not follow him,
(Oh, this news with death o'erwhelms me!)
[Aside.
Since if he who is the loser
Of what you have gained, expressly
Says he would forget it, you
Should not try his patient temper.
Florus.
Both by you and him at once
Has mine own been too well tested.
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About me; for though full vengeance
I propose to take for being
Thus supplanted and rejected,
Every hope of her being mine
Now has ceased, for shameful were it,
In the face of such proved facts,
To persist in my addresses.
[Exit.
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