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SCENE V.
Ampelisca alone.
I'll go beg a little Water at the next House, as the Priestess order'd; for she tells me if I ask in her Name, they'll gi' me't without Scruple. I think I ne'r saw a Person more deserving o' the Favour o' Gods and Men, than this good old Priestess. How hansomly, gene∣rously, honestly, and freely, did she entertain us! When we were in Fears, Want, Wet, forsaken, and ready to perish, she took care of us as tho' we had been her own Children. How ready she is too, to heat the Water to wash us withal!—Now I'll go ask for some, that I might n't make her stay.—
[She knocks at Demones's Door]
So ho! who's at home here?—Any Body here?—None to come out? [Knocks again.