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The Maids Tragedy Alter'd.
Mel. Rather than not accomplish my Revenge,Just, or unjust, I would the World unhinge.
Luc. Yet of all Vertues, Justice is the best:Valour, without it, is a common Pest.Pirates and Thieves, too oft with Courage grac'd,Shew us how ill that Vertue may be plac'd.'Tis our complexion makes us chast or brave;Justice from Reason, and from Heav'n we have.All other Vertues dwell but in the blood,That in the Soul, and gives the name of good.Justice, the Queen of Vertues, you despise,And only rude and savage Valour prize.To your revenge you think the King and allThat Sacred is, a Sacrifice should fall:The Town be ruin'd, and this Isle laid wast,Only because your Sister is not chast.Can you expect, that she should be so sageTo rule her blood, and you not rule your rage?

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