text:  Leucippe meanwhile of whose unrivalled charms Thersander has been informed by Sosthenes is still detained in bondage and suffers cruel persecution from her brutal master; who at last having learned from an overheard soliloquy her true parentage and history as well as her attachment for Clitophon (of her relations with whom he was not previously aware ) forms a scheme of ridding himself of this twofold rival by sending one of his emissaries into the prison who gives out that he has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Leucippe who has been dispatched by assassins employed by the jealous Melissa