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SPIRITT.

If, as thou say'st, thine essence be as ours,

We have replied in telling thee, the thiug

Mortals call death hath nought to do with us.

MANFRED.

I then have call'd ye from your realms in vain;

Ne cannot, or ye will not, aid me.

SEIRIT. Say;

Whart we possess We offer; it is thine:

Bethink ere thou dismiss us, ask again—

Kingdom, and sway, and strenght, and lengih of

days

MANERED.

Accursed! What have I to do with days?

They are too long already.— Hence— be gone!

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