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• Publisher's Notice
• To My Worthy Friend , Master Thomas Hammon, of Gray's Inn , &c.
• Persons Represented.
• The Jew of Malta.
• Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Edward the Second.
• Act the First.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act the Second.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Act the Third.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Act the Fourth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Act the Fifth.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• The Massacre At Paris.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Scene V.
• Scene VI.
• Scene VII.
• Scene VIII.
• Scene IX.
• Scene X.
• Scene XI.
• Scene XII.
• Scene XIII.
• Scene XIV.
• Scene XV.
• Scene XVI.
• Scene XVII.
• Scene XVIII.
• Scene XIX.
• Scene XX.
• Scene XXI.
• Scene XXII.
• Scene XXIII.
• Scene XXIV.
• The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage.
• Act I.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Act II.
• Scene I.
• Act III.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene III.
• Scene IV.
• Act IV.
• Scene I.
• Scene II.
• Scene Iii
• Scene IV.
• Scene V
• Act V.
• Scene I.

SCENE II.

Enter1Iarbas to sacrifice.

Iar.

• Come, servants, come; bring forth the sacrifice,
• That I may pacify that gloomy Jove,
• Whose empty altars have enlarg'd our ills.—
• [Servants bring in the sacrifice, and then exeunt.
• Eternal Jove, great master of the clouds,
• Father of gladness and all frolic thoughts,
• That with thy gloomy2 hand corrects the heaven,
• When airy creatures war amongst themselves;
• Hear, hear, O, hear Iarbas' plaining prayers,
• Whose hideous echoes make the welkin howl,
• And ail the woods Eliza3 to resound!

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• The woman that thou willed us entertain.
• Where, straying in our borders up and down,
• She crav'd a hide of ground to build a town,
• With whom we did divide both laws and land,
• And all the fruits that plenty else sends forth,
• Scorning our loves and royal marriage-rites,
• Yields up her beauty to a stranger's bed;
• Who, having wrought her shame, is straightway fled
• Now, if thou be'st a pitying god of power
• On whom ruth and compassion ever waits,

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• Redress these wrongs, and warn him to his ships,
• That now afflicts me with his flattering eyes.
• Enter Anna.

Anna.

• How now, Iarbas! at your prayers so hard?

Iar.

• Ay, Anna: is there aught you would with me?

Anna.

• Nay, no such weighty business of import
• But may be slacked until another time:
• Yet, if you would partake with me the cause
• Of this devotion that detaineth you,

Iar.

• Anna, against this Trojan do I pray,

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• Who seeks to rob me of thy sister's love,
• And dive into her heart by colour'd looks.

Anna.

• Alas, poor king, that labours so in vain
• For her that so delighteth in thy pain!
• Be rul'd by me, and seek some other love,
• Whose yielding heart may yield thee more relief.

Æn.

• Mine eye is fixed where fancy cannot start:
• O, leave me, leave me to my silent thoughts,
• That register the numbers of my ruth,
• And I will either move the thoughtless flint,

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• Or drop out both mine eyes in drizzling tears,
• Before my sorrow's tide have any stint!

Anna.

• I will not leave Iarbas, whom I love,
• In this delight of dying pensiveness.
• Away with Dido! Anna be thy song;
• Anna, that doth admire thee more than heaven.

Iar.

• I may nor will list to such loathsome change,
• That intercepts the course of my desire.—
• Servants, come fetch these empty vessels here;
• For I will fly from these alluring eyes,

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• That do pursue my peace where'er it goes.
• [Exit.-Servants re-enter, and carry out the vessels, &c.

Anna.

• Iarbas, stay, loving Iarbas, stay!
• For I have honey to present thee with.
• Hard-hearted, wilt not deign to hear me speak?
• I'll follow thee with outcries ne'ertheless
• And strew thy walks with my dishevell'd hair.
• [Exit

[1]Scene; a room in Iarbas' house.

[2]The epithet “gloomy,” here and in 1. 2, contrasts oddly with “Father of gladness and all frolic thoughts,”

[3]Elissa (Dido).