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tered myfelf it is, yet I know myfelf too well for being 

 capable of fuch a lingular miffctke. 



Hecate.'] You feem then not to know, that we three, 

 though under various attributes and names, are only 

 one and the fame goddefs I 



Luna J] How! 1 hou art — I? 



Diana.] Thou — Diana ? 



Hecate .] That is what I will not aifert ; but thou art 

 Hecate, and thou art Hecate, and ye both are Hecate? 

 without myfelf being lefs Hecate than ye. 



Diana.] Excellent ! And who is it that affirms 

 fuch abfurdities ? 



Hecate.] Oh, the people that ought to know fay 

 fo ; the mythologies fay fo. 



Diana.] The mythologies may fay what they pleafe! 

 Yet I think myfelf mould beft know what I am ; and* 

 as long as I am not, like the daughters of Proteus, at- 

 tacked by the nymphomania, nobody Jfhall perfuade 

 me that I am Luna or Hecate, much lefs both at once. 



Lima, laughing.] Bq not angry, Diana. Who knows 

 but the mythologies may know us better than we know 

 ourfelves I They would not fure maintain it fo poft- 

 tively, if there were not fome truth in it* 



Diana.] Hear me, Luna, I have no notion of joking 

 on this matter. I have all due efteem for thee : but I 

 ihould by no means take it well of any that mould con- 

 found me with thee. I grant thee, with all my heart, 

 thy Endymion, and the fifty daughters of whom thou 

 art faid to have made him father on Latmos, only allow 

 me the honour of being their mother.. 



Luna.] Diana, Diana ! do not force me to fpeak t 

 or I will bring to thy recollection fomething, at which, 



