Nor wait Refreshment after our Day's Toil.

Scene II. Ponteach's Cabin.

Scene

Ponteach's

Ponteach, Philip, Chekitan, and Tenesco.

Ponteach

Philip

Chekitan

Tenesco

Ponteach.

Ponteach.

My Sons, and trusty Counsellor Tenesco,

As the sweet smelling Rose, when yet a Bud,

Lies close conceal'd, till Time and the Sun's Warmth

Hath swell'd, matur'd, and brought it forth to View,

So these my Purposes I now reveal

Are to be kept with You, on pain of Death,[Pg 142]

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Till Time hath ripen'd my aspiring Plan,

And Fortune's Sunshine shall disclose the Whole;

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