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 Enter Chorus. After the waste of many thousand wounds Given and receiv'd alike, in seaven set battailes Lydia's old King upon conditions sign'd For Peace and truce, enter'd confeigned league With his fierce enemy the Lycian King Gave him in Hoftage as his pledge of faith, His Nephew, Lord Lapyrus, and receiv'd Noble Zantippus from the Lycian; To make the contract full and honourable, This Lord Lapyrus entertain'd and wellcom'd But chiefely by the faire Eurymone The Kings sole daughter, who unto Lapyrus Offers her as his Bride, so he would turne A Traytor to his Country and his King: Lapyrus, to obtaine the beautions mayd Turnes Traytor to his King, and joynes his force Vnto his faire loves Fathers, Lycia's Kings; Th'old King of Lydia being so beset By his owne Nephews unexpected trecheries, Sent forth his sonne Tymethes to crave ayd From Armatrites of great Cilicia, Which he obtain'd in a disastrous houre As the event will witnesse; In this trouble The frighted Queene with her two Infants fled Into a Forrest, fearing the sad ruine Hourely expected, untill Armatrites With a fresh Army fore'd Lapyrus flye And fav'd the King, doom'd for worse treachery. What followes flicwvs it selfe; tis our full due, If we with labour give content to you. Exit.

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