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 or anything like it! Of what use is my care now for Cleopatra? What good was it to me, that I was called godly to this day? I suffer more than an ungodly, that I must see thee, Cleopatra, thus suffering. The sun shall not see me in his circuit, if you are no more with me. Before thee, Cleopatra, I will die. I will not spare my still young life. I will justify myself before the goddess of right, how I served her in righteousness, if judgment is to be pronounced against her unrighteous sentence. I will avenge myself on her by coming as a shade. I will say to her, thou hast forced me to leave the light of life, because thou didst rob Cleopatra. Thou art the cause of my death, by having prepared for me this fate. Thou hast forced me to blaspheme Providence by destroying my confidence."

21. And still more spoke Lycomedes to Cleopatra, went to her couch, and cried bitterly. But John drew him away and said, "Abandon these tears and thy unbecoming words! It behooves thee not, who art seeing, to be disbelieving. Know that thy partner for life will be restored to thee. Therefore join us, who have come for her sake, and pray to the God whom thou sawest, when He showed me to thee in a vision! What is the matter, Lycomedes? Wake up and open also thy soul! Cast from thee the much sleep! Ask the Lord, beseech Him for thy wife, and He will support her." But he fell to the ground and wept dejectedly. And John said with tears, "Woe to the treachery