Dramas And Other Poems of the Abb Pietro Metastasio volume 2
Dramas And Other Poems of the Abb Pietro Metastasio volume 2
Pietro Metastasio
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O fpeak not thus ! Wife, father, fon and brother, Are names endearing to a mind at peace ; To me they are founds of horror. Creu. Say the caufe. Timan. Seek not to know it drown me in oblivion. Dir. By thofe dear moments when I pleas'd thee firft Timan. Dirce, forbear Dir. By all thofe folemn ties Timan. O hold, in pity hold ! Dir. If thou no more Regard'ft thy wife^ at leaft thy fon may move thee : Look on him 'tis the fame that oft has touch'd Thy breafl with tendernefs : look on him ilill ; ...'Tis thy own blood Timan. Would Heaven he were not fo ! Dirce. What crime could he commit that thus thou munn'ft him ? Why doft thou turn away thy face O fee, See how" he reaches out his little hands, And fpeaks to thee with fmiles of innocence ! Timan. Ah! couldfl thou now 'be fenfible of that Which, haplefs boy ! thou mufl hereafter know, L 2 Thou 14$ DEMOFHOOtf. [ACT III. Thou wouldft not thus with fondnefs hover round me ! Ill-fated child ! thou canft not feel Thy future grief and fhame : May never tongue thy birth reveal, Or tell thy father's name !
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