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He would have proceeded, but was prevented by faintness that obliged his tongue to faulter; and Androgus being about to reply, was prevented by languishing Eugenia, who in sighs and tears breaks forth, "O brother, you are the only man living, that by your promise to support my dear babes, can ⟨give⟩ me any kind of ease even in death. O be kind then, even for his sake that made us and all the world; be a father and a mother to them when we are gone, when we shall be so far seperated as not to know what happens unto them; and many thousand blessings fall upon you; but if you injure them in ought, know that there is a righteous judge." There she stop’d, when Androgus, with many imprecations wished that neither he nor his might prosper, if he did not nourish and regard them as his own; and thereupon the father being a little recovered from the faintness, delivered them into his hands, after having kissed them with his dying lips, ⟨blessed⟩ them again, the children at the same instant tenderly weeping, and so they took a farewell of each other, the parents dying immediately after.
