The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Vol II With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
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Chapter 56 PROLOGUE TO THE INDIAN QUEEN.

As the music plays a soft air, the curtain rises slowly and discovers an Indian boy and girl sleeping under two plantain-trees; and, when the curtain is almost up, the music turns into a tune expressing an alarm, at which the boy awakes, and speaks:

BOY. Wake, wake, Quevira! our soft rest must cease,

And fly together with our country's peace!

            
            

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