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Updated: April 30, 2025
We see nothing but despotism without power, and sacrifices without compensation. We will give a few instances. In Aurengzebe, Arimant, governor of Agra, falls in love with his prisoner Indamora. She rejects his suit with scorn; but assures him that she shall make great use of her power over him. He threatens to be angry.
Such tyranny as this, it may be thought, would justify resistance. Arimant does indeed venture to remonstrate: "This fatal paper rather let me tear, Than, like Bellerophon, my sentence bear." The answer of the lady is incomparable: "You may; but 'twill not be your best advice; 'Twill only give me pains of writing twice. You know you must obey me, soon or late.
Why should you vainly struggle with your fate?" Poor Arimant seems to be of the same opinion. He mutters something about fate and free-will, and walks off with the billet-doux. In the Indian Emperor, Montezuma presents Almeria with a garland as a token of his love, and offers to make her his queen. She replies:
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