Eva. Timoleon come to vindicate my rights![Pg 28]

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Oh! thou shalt reign in Sicily! my child

Shall grace her father's throne. Indulgent Heaven!

Pour down your blessings on this best of daughters;

To her and Phocion give Evander's crown;

Let them, oh! let them both in virtue wear it,

And in due time transmit it to their boy!

Enter Philotas.

Philotas

Phil. All things are apt; the drowsy sentinel

Lies hush'd in sleep; I'll marshall thee the way

Down the steep rock.

Eup. Oh! let us quickly hence.

Eva. The blood but loiters in these frozen veins:

Do you, whose youthful spirit glows with life,

Do you go forth, and leave this mould'ring corpse.

To me had Heav'n decreed a longer date,

It ne'er had suffer'd a fell monster's reign,

Nor let me see the carnage of my people.

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