Only two days my Prisoner appear;
And witness be, how after our debate,
I shall revere his Name, revenge his Fate;
You this account to Italy may yield,
What Pride I borrow from Thessalia's Field.
I leave you to your self, and shall retire;
Lepidus, furnish her to her desire;
As Roman Ladies have respected been,
So honour her, (that is) above a Queen.
Madam, command; all shall your Orders wait.
CORNELIA.
O Gods! how many Virtues must I hate!
After the third Act, to Cornelia asleep on a Couch, Pompey's Ghost sings this in Recitative Air.
From lasting and unclouded Day,
From joys refin'd above allay,
And from a spring without decay.
I come, by Cynthia's borrow'd ••eams
To visit my Cornelia's Dreams,
And give them yet sublimer Theams.
Behold the Man thou lov'dst before,
Pure streams have wash'd away his Gore,
And Pompey now shall bleed no more.
By Death my Glory I resume;
For 'twould have been a harsher doom
To outlive the Liberty of Rome.
By me her doubtful fortune try'd,
Falling, bequeaths my Fame this Pride,
I for it liv'd, and with it Dy'd.
Nor shall my vengeance be withstood
Or unattended with a Flood,
Of Roman and Egyytian Blood.