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Artaxerxes

The royal apartments

<- Artaxerxes, Artabanes

Guards, speed ye to the tower

[N. 12 - Air]

Artabanes
Artaxerxes ->

So far my great resolve succeeds

Artabanes
<- Arbaces, Guards

And you his guards, in the next chamber wait

Artabanes, Arbaces
Guards ->

My father! / Ever watchful to preferve thee

Artabanes, Arbaces
<- Guards

[N. 13 - Air]

Artabanes
Arbaces, Guards ->
Artabanes
<- Rimenes

Why, my dear friend, so pcnsive, so inactive?

Artabanes, Rimenes
<- Semira

In this valiant chief

Rimenes, Semira
Artabanes ->

I tremble ~ hear me, sir, ~ O, if you love me

[N. 14 - Air]

Semira
Rimenes ->

How many links to dire misfortune's chain

Semira
<- Mandane

Stay, dear Mandane ~

[N. 15 - Air]

Semira
Mandane ->

Which fatal evil shall I first oppose?

[N. 16 - Air]

Semira ->

A hall of royal council with a throne, seats on the sides for the grandees of kingdom

<- Guards, Artaxerxes, Nobles, Mandane, Semira, Artabanes, Rimenes

Ye solid pillars of the Persian empire

Guards, Artaxerxes, Nobles, Mandane, Semira, Artabanes, Rimenes
<- Arbaces, Guards II

Am I so much the hatred of all Persia

[N. 17 - Air]

Guards, Artaxerxes, Nobles, Mandane, Semira, Artabanes, Rimenes
Arbaces, Guards II ->

Ah me! at poor Arbaces' parting

[N. 18 - Air]

Guards, Artaxerxes, Nobles, Semira, Artabanes, Rimenes
Mandane ->

See, loved Semira! / how heaven conspires the ruin of Arbaces.

Guards, Artaxerxes, Nobles, Artabanes, Rimenes
Semira ->

O, Artabanes? / Lament not, sir, but leave complaints to me

Guards, Nobles, Artabanes, Rimenes
Artaxerxes ->

At length my soul has room t'indulge its grief

[N. 19 - Air]

Guards, Nobles, Rimenes
Artabanes ->
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