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When night falls, veiling in its shadows | The enamelled tapestry of this mossy

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trary.

Being a stranger there, I will even wait It be the true one, I will take the con-
The few surviving hours of the day,
Until the night shall conquer it.
I see
Both by your dress and by the books in
which

Cyprian. The offer gives me plea

sure.

I am now

Debating with myself upon a passage

You find delight and company, that Of Plinius, and my mind is racked with

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Cyprian. This reply will not satisfy Be well distinguished into persons, yet me, for Even in the minutest circumstance Such awe is due to the high name of His essence must be one.

Dæmon.

God To attain the end That i should never be imputed. The affections of the actors in the scene Must have been thus influenced by his

Then,

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But supreme goodness fails among the Of the high Gods; in things of great

Gods

Without their union.

Dæmon.
I deny your major.
These responses are means towards some
end

Unfathomed by our intellectual beam.
They are the work of providence, and

more

importance

They still appear unanimous; consider
That glorious fabric man,-his work-
manship

Is stamped with one conception.
Cyprian.
Who made man
Must have, methinks, the advantage of
the others.

The battle's loss may profit those who If they are equal, might they not have

lose,

Than victory advantage those who win.
Cyprian. That I admit; and yet
that God should not

(Falsehood is incompatible with deity)
Assure the victory; it would be enough
To have permitted the defeat.
If God
Be all sight,—God, who had beheld the
truth,

risen

In opposition to the work, and being
All hands, according to our author here,
Have still destroyed even as the other
made?

If equal in their power, unequal only
In opportunity, which of the two
Will remain conqueror?
Dæmon.

On impossible Would not have given assurance of an And false hypothesis there can be built No argument. Say, what do you infer From this? Cyprian.

end Never to be accomplished: thus, although The Deity may according to his attributes

a mighty God

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So clear a consequence?
Cyprian.

My victory?

Dæmon.

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Do you regret My master, I now hear the clash of

Who but regrets a check
In rivalry of wit? I could reply
And urge new difficulties, but will now
Depart, for I hear steps of men ap-
proaching,

And it is time that I should now pursue
My journey to the city.

Cyprian.
Go in peace!
Dæmon. Remain in peace !-Since
thus it profits him

To study, I will wrap his senses up
In sweet oblivion of all thought, but of
A piece of excellent beauty; and as I
Have power given me to wage enmity
Against Justina's soul, I will extract
From one effect two vengeances.

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canst not

[Aside and exit. Holds now my sword suspended, thou Cyprian. I never Met a more learned person. Let me now Revolve this doubt again with careful mind. [He reads. FLORO and LELIO enter.

Lelio. Here stop.

These toppling
rocks and tangled boughs,

Impenetrable by the noonday beam,
Shall be sole witnesses of what we-

Floro.

Draw!

If there were words, here is the place for deeds.

Lelio.

Restore it to the slumber of the scabbard : Thou knowest more of science than the duel;

For when two men of honour take the field, No counsel nor respect can make them friends

But one must die in the dispute.

Floro.

I pray That you depart hence with your people, and

Leave us to finish what we have begun

Thou needest not instruct Without advantage. me; well I know

That in the field, the silent tongue of

steel

Though you may

Cyprian.

imagine

That I know little of the laws of duel,

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Floro.

Would you for your

Such is my confidence.

Cyprian. And you? Lelio.

To slur her honour? What would the world say

If one should slay the other, and if she Should afterwards espouse the murderer? [The rivals agree to refer their quarrel to CYPRIAN; who in consequence visits JUSTINA, and becomes enamoured of her: she disdains him, and he retires to a solitary sea-shore.

SCENE II

Cyprian.

O memory! permit it not
That the tyrant of my thought
Be another soul that still

Holds dominion o'er the will,
That would refuse, but can no more,
To bend, to tremble, and adore.
Vain idolatry!-I saw,

And gazing, became blind with error; Weak ambition, which the awe

Of her presence bound to terror!
So beautiful she was-and I,
Between my love and jealousy,
Am so convulsed with hope and fear,
Unworthy as it may appear;-
So bitter is the life I live,

That, hear me, Hell! I now would give
To thy most detested spirit
My soul, for ever to inherit,
To suffer punishment and pine,
So this woman may be mine.
Hear'st thou, Hell! dost thou reject it?
My soul is offered!

Damon (unseen).

I accept it.

[Tempest, with thunder and lightning.

Cyprian.

What is this? ye heavens for ever pure,

Oh! would that I At once intensely radiant and obscure!

could lift my hope

Athwart the ethereal halls

So high, for though she is extremely The lightning's arrow and the thunder

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