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6 Perdition seize thee, thou, thy Kind's Disgrace! May thy devoted Carcass find no Place In Earth, or Air, or Sea, by all out-cast! Shall Minos, with so foul a Monster, blast His Cretan World, where cradled Jove was nurst? Forbid it Heav'n!—away, thou most accurst! And now Alcathoë, its Lord exchang'd, Was under Minos' Domination rang'd. While the most equal King his Care applies To curb the Conquer'd, and new Laws devise, The Fleet, by his Command, with hoisted Sails, And ready Oars, invites the murm'ring Gales. At length the Cretan Hero Anchor weigh'd, Repaying, with Neglect, th' abandon'd Maid. Deaf to her Cries, he furrows up the Main: In vain she prays, sollicits him in vain. And now she furious grows; in wild Despair She wrings her Hands, and throws aloft her Hair. Where run'st thou? (thus she vents her deep Distress) Why shun'st thou her that crown'd thee with Success? Her, whose fond Love to thee cou'd sacrifice Her Country, and her Parent, sacred Ties! Can nor my Love, nor proffer'd Presents find A Passage to thy Heart, and make thee kind? Can nothing move thy Pity? O Ingrate, Can'st thou behold my lost, forlorn Estate, And not be soften'd? Can'st thou throw off one Who has no Refuge left but thee alone? Where shall I seek for Comfort? whither fly? My native Country does in Ashes lye: Or were't not so, my Treason bars me there, And bids me wander. Shall I next repair To a wrong'd Father, by my Guilt undone?— Me all Mankind deservedly will shun. I, out of all the World, my self have thrown, To purchase an Access to Crete alone Which