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The Maids Tragedy Alter'd.

Enter Evadne, with a Page of Honour.

Evad.A Mintor lost, it were as vain a thing,As 'tis prodigious, to destroy the King.Compell'd by Threats, to take that bloody Oath,And the Act ill, I am absolv'd by both.This Island left with pitty I'll look downOn the King's Love, and fierce Melantius's frown.These will to both my resolution bring:Page, give Melantius that, this to the King.[Exit Page with the Letters
Under how hard a fate are Women born!Priz'd to their ruine, or expos'd to scorn!If we want Beauty, we of Love despair;And are besieg'd like Frontier Towns, if fair.

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