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The Maids Tragedy Alter'd.
I need not urge your Promise, e're you findAn Entrance here, to leave the World behind.
Ev. My guilty Love Devotion shall succeed;Love such as mine was, tho' a dangerous Weed,Shews the rich Soile, on which it grew so high,May yield as fair a Crop of Piety.But of all Passions, I Ambition findHardest to banish from a Glorious Mind.Yet Heav'n our Object made, Ambition may,As well as Love, be turn'd a Nobler way:Still I ascend; it is a step aboveA Princes favour, to belong to Jove.They go in and the Door shuts.
Enter Melantius with a Letter.
Among the Vestals! she'll corrupt them all,And teach them from their Sacred Vow to fall.

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