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And therefore have I not desir'd thy counsel.

One step's already taken. From our guards

E'en now I this intelligence have gained.

A strange and godlike woman holds in check

The execution of that bloody law

Incense, and prayer, and an unsullied heart,

These are the gifts she offers to the gods.

Rumor extols her highly, it is thought

That from the race of Amazon she springs,

And hither fled some great calamity.