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CHARACTERS.

TROJANS.

PRIAM.

DEIFOBOS.

ENEAS.

ACHATES.

High-priest.

1st Citizen.

2d Citizen.

HECUBA.

CASSANDRA.

Priests, Soldiers, Citizens, &c. &c.

GREEKS.

AGAMEMNON.

ULYSSES.

MENELAUS.

Soldiers, &c. &c.

THE PROPHETESS,

A Tragedy.

ACT I.

SCENE I. Agamemnon's Tent. Beyond the opening a view of the Grecian Camp should be disclosed: the Horse should be seen in perspective. The Grecian Kings, &c. assembled.

AGAMEMNON, MENELAUS, and ULYSSES.

AGA. Ten years are past since to these shores we came By Justice arm'd, and with the noblest bands

That ever gloried in a warrior's sight,

And still the Gods defer the fall of Troy.
Whether high Heaven has will'd that other hands
Shall reap the harvest, or, relenting, grants
Respite and pardon to the race of Priam,
We unprofanely may not dare to scan;
But toil and battle, wounds and dire disease

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