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338 THE POEMS OF ANNE �Repeated, when a cusheon crown he wore ; �Yet, those the Hostesse mov'd her eyes to wett, �These lines, she fears, no passions will begett, 30 �But 'twill appear, in spite of all inditing, �A woman's way to charm is not by writing. ���DBAMATIS PEBSON^E �MEN �Aristomenes, Prince of the Messenians and Arcadians. �Aristor, Son to Aristomenes. �Alcander, a Principal Officer under Aristomenes. ���he ' Son to the Prince of Rhodes > under the Disguise �Royal Shepherd, \ of a Shepherd call'd Climander. Arcasius, An old Lord, under the Habit of a Shepherd, Councellor �to Demagetus. Anaxander, one of the Kings of Lacedemon (for they had always �Two) and Leader of their Forces against Aristomenes. Clarinthus, Chief Councellor to Anaxander, a Lord of Sparta. Clinias, A Shepherd keeping his Flock on the Plains of Messenia, �close to the Walls of Phcerea, with other Shepherds. �WOMEN �Herminia, Daughter to Aristomenes. Barina, Her Woman and Confident. Amalintha, Daughter to Anaxander. Phila, Her Woman and Confident. �Thceta, ) �and [ Shepherdesses on the Plains of Messenia. Lamia, ) �Soldiers, Officers, Guards, ' and Attendants, several Lords of the Spartan Council. �The general SCENES are Aristomenes's Camp near the Walls of Phcerea; sometimes the Town of Phcerea, and sometimes the Plains among the Shepherds. ��� �