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ARISTOMENES:

OR, THE

Royal Shepherd.

A

TRAGEDY.

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Dramatis Personæ.

MEN.

• Aristomenes, Prince of the Messenians and Arcadians.
• Aristor, Son to Aristomenes.
• Alcander, A Principal Officer under Aristomenes.
• Demagetus, Or the Royal Shepherd. Son to the Prince of Rhodes, under the Disguise of a Shepherd call'd Climander.
• Arcasius, An old Lord, under the Habit of a Shepherd, Counsellor to Demagetus.
• Anaxander, one of the Kings of Lacedemon (for they had always Two) and Leader of their Forces against Aristomenes.
• Clarinthus, Chief Counsellor to Anaxander, a Lord of Sparta.
• Clinias, A Shepherd keeping his Flock on the Plains of Messenia, close to the Walls of Phærea, with other Shepherds.

  WOMEN.

• Herminia, Daughter to Aristomenes.
• Barina, Her Woman and Confident.
• Amalintha, Daughter to Anaxander.
• Phila, Her Woman and Confident.
• Thæta, and Lamia, Shepherdesses on the Plains of Messenia.

• Soldiers, Officers, Guards, and Attendants, several Lords of the Spartan Council.

The general SCENES are Aristomenes's Camp near the Walls of Phærea; sometimes the Town of Phærea, and sometimes the Plains among the Shepherds.

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ACT I SCENE I

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ACT II SCENE I

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ACT III SCENE I

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ACT IV SCENE I

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ACT V SCENE I