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A complicated story which is narrated at length in the course of the play explains the peculiar laws of Arcadia on which the plot hinges . These comprise an edict of Diana to the effect that any nymph found guilty of a breach of faith shall suffer death at the altar unless some one offers to die in her place; likewise a custom whereby a nymph between fifteen and twenty years of age is annually sacrificed to the goddess. When besought to release the land from this tribute Diana through her oracle replies: Non avr
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