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WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2011 (Objective)

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Tell me, heavenly bow,
If Venus or her son, as thou dost know,
Do now attend the queen? Since they did plot
The means that dusky Dis my daughter got,
Her and her blind boy's scandalled company
I have forsworn.
(Act IV, scene one lines 86-91)

The speaker is
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The speaker in this extract is Ceres. She is asking a heavenly bow if Venus or her son is attending the queen, and explaining that she has forsworn the company of her daughter and her blind boy, as they were involved in plotting the means of her daughter's abduction by "dusky Dis" (the god of the underworld).
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