Spread all my beauties in the face of day.

Ye Gods! why did ye give me such a soul

(A soul, which ev'ry way is form'd for Empire),

And damn me with a younger Brother's right?

The diadem would set as well on mine,

As on the brows of any lordly He;

Nor is this hand weak to enforce command.

And shall I steal into my grave, and give

My name up to oblivion, to be thrown

Among the common rubbish of the times?

No: Perish first, this happy hated Brother.

Lysias.

Lysias.

I always wear a dagger, for your service,

I need not speak the rest—

When humbly I intreated of your Brother

T' attend him as Lieutenant in this war,

Frowning contempt, he haughtily reply'd,

He entertain'd not Traitors in his service.[Pg 52]

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