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SCENE II. ''An open space in the camp, with the Janizaries and Turkish troops drawn up in order. Cannon and warlike engines seen mixed with the tents. A flourish of trumpets; enter, with and his train, and places himself in a chair of state near the front of the stage. Another flourish of trumpets, and enter and, with a small train of Attendants, walking slowly up the stage.''

These men approach us with a hardy step, Nor wear the suppliant's humbled brow. Come they You are permitted to declare your errand. If your hard-lesson'd chief, more prudent grown, Will now resign his proud imperial city Into the hands to whom high heaven's decree, And power on earth resistless, soon shall give it, I will receive that which he cannot hold With grace and favour.

High heaven's decrees are known to mortal man But in th' event fulfill'd; and for earth's power, The cannon flanked cohorts, and wide front Of far extended numbers, shew it not To him, who in the small and secret fortress,