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The Maids Tragedy Alter'd.
And if there must be some to' invokeYour Powers, and make your Altars smoke,Come down your selves, and in their placeGet a more Just and Nobler Race:Such as the Old World did adorn,When Hero's like your selves were born.But this I wish not for Aspacia's sake;For she no God would for Amintor take.The Heart, which is our Passions Seat,Whether we will or no do's beat:And yet we may suppress our Breath:This let's us see that Life and DeathAre in our Power; but Love and Hate,Depend not on our Will, but Fate.My Love was Lawful, when 'twas born;Their Marriage makes it merit Scorn.Evadne's Husband 'tis a FaultTo Love, a blemish to my thought;

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