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Rh Nor you, great Queen, repent, that you employ Your kind Compassion in the Cause of. Besides, on high the Trojan Ensigns soar, And Trojan Cities grace ’s Shore; Where great, of the Dardan Strain, Deriv’d from ancient, holds his Reign. Permit us, from your Woods, new Planks and Oars To fell, and bring our Vessels on your Shores; That, if our Prince and Friends return again, With Joy, for, we may plow the Main. But if those Hopes are vanisht quite away. If lost, and swallow’d in the Lybian Sea, You lye, great Guardian of the Trojan State, And young shares his Father's Fate; Oh! let us seek ’s Shores again, And fly from hence to good ’ Reign. He spoke; a loud Assent ran murmuring thro’ the Train.

then, in short, the gracious Queen replies, While on the Ground she fixt her modest Eyes. ,