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AMYNTAS.

ACT I.

SCENE I.
DAPHNE and SYLVIA.

DAPHNE.
WILT thou, then, Silvia, waste the bloom of youth,
Rejecting, sullenly, the joys of love?
Say, shall a mother's tender, moving name,
Never be music to thy callous ear?
Can thy obdurate soul conceive no bliss,
To see thy sportive children round thee play?

Nay,