Your rival Oediddee shall restore

The Royal Ensigns, Britain to convince

That in Omai she receives a Prince.

SCENE II. Inside of a Morai of the antient Arei-de-by's (8) Ancestors of Omai.

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Enter Otoo and Omai.

RECITATIVE. — Otoo.

[Omai kneels,

Alas ! to spare him you in vain implore me;

Quick, fly and bring Oediddee here before me.

[Calls to Spirits, who bring on Oediddee.

R E C I T A T I VE — Oediddee.

Oh, sage Otoo! accept my true contrition,

I yield obedience to each hard condition;

Your son still loves me. still I love that son,

From childhood still the race of life we've run;

My smallest grief was anguish to his heart,

His slightest joy could every joy impart.

AIR IV. — Oediddee.

O'er groves of coral, through the deep,

Where Mogee (9) fish their revels keep,

(8) Grand Chiefs.

(9) An excellent species of fish in those seas.

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