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AMYNTAS.
 What can this be! What does this woman say?

NERINA.
 Oh Daphne!

DAPHNE.
 Whence, Nerina, this confusion?
Why speakest thou of Sylvia with a sigh?

NERINA
 Alas! her fate the deepest sigh demands!

AMYNTAS.
 What dost thou mean? thou overwhelmest me;
My heart is freezing, and my life goes from me:
I dare not ask; yet say, doth Sylvia live?

DAPHNE.
 Speak; be explicit; let us know the worst.

NERINA.
 Why should I be a doleful messenger?
But now I must unfold the dreadful tale.
Sylvia came naked to my habitation;
Why she came so, I need not tell Amyntas.
As soon as she was dressed, she begged I would

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